Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-01-18
STOCKMEN SHOW
THEIR PATRIOTISM
ARE BACK or GOVERNMENT
THAT WAR MAY Be WON FOR
LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.
Delegates to American National live
stock Association Declare They Are
Willing to Do All In Their
Power FOR Government.

Salt Lake City.-The American Ma
tiOnal Livestock association and the |
livestock producers of the United |
States represented by IL are patriot |
ically back of the government and its
military forces, to the end that the
great world war may be won for lib
erty and justice.
This. In brief, is the important mes
sage sent forth ON January IA from
the twenty-first annual convention of
the National Livestock association, In
session, to General John ]. Pershing,
commander of the American expedl-
tionary forces now In France.
The telegram reads as follows:
Annual convention American Live
stock association sends hearty greet
ings to you and our boys In France.
We stand back of you In winning the
war"
Patriotism was the predominant
chord in the proceedings of the con
vention and was the keynote of every
address delivered before the opening
session. President L. Il. Pryor sound
ed the tocsin OF patriotic cooperation
between the livestock men and the
when he declared that the livestock
men, as producers OF that essential
food product. meat, ask nothing OF the
government but fair profit upon their
product and that they be not expected
to produce Il at loss. The president
voiced the unanimous sentiment Of the
convention when he declared that the
| livestock men are ready and willing
to do all In their power to meet the
/ demand of the. government for In
creased production, and only ask that
the government in return give them
the consideration necessary TO encOur-
age them In accomplishing this impor-
tant end.
In line with the attitude of the assO-
citation to employ every means possible
toward the conservation Of meat sup
ply, the executive committee OF the ma
tional organization, through President
Pryor, wired to Secretary David II
Houston OF the department of agricul'
ture, asking him to prevent the re
opening of the Juarez packing plant
at Juarez, Mexico.
The executive committee sees in this
proposed opening OF the Juarez plant
the placing OF a premium upon conhs
cation of American-owned cattle b.
Mclean bandits and the opening OF 1
door through which these Mexican cat
! tie rustlers could easily dispose of tn
. cOntiscated stock Mt handsome prof
and to the exclusion of possible re
dress by the rlghtful American own
. ers.
] The two-fOld duty Of the AmericaI
! livestock men is to see 10 1t that tn
nation at large IL supplied TO the full
! est extent with meats and meat pred
} ucts and at the same time 10 Observ
due regard for the law of self-preseI
D walton which demands that he prs
: serve his industry, was the subject O
: a stirring address before the openln
) session Of the twenty-first annual COZ
: vention of the American Nations
7 Livestock association by Frank
t Hagenbarth. former president OF thl
1 association md now president of I'll
National Woolgrowers' association.
Senator Patrick Sullivan. from ca
per. WyO., was at the livestock col
vention, with the announcement thi
the first Wyoming man, II he come
from Casper, TO drop bomb In Berli
Il can call upon him to receive S30t
e cash.
g It has been conservatlyely estimate
= that not 10 exceed 25oOO.OO0 acres vi
? ever be homesteaded under the Oh
II acre act. or about one-tenth OF the u
I, appropriated. unreserved public Il
main, says President Pryor. cor
If plete classification Of the remand
"A should be made as promptly as pc
: sible, and We should urge congress
: grant the necessary funds for tn
work
IA DR.. lisa Tanimura. commissioner
IA livestock of Japan, from Toxic. d
Is rived In the city Sunday night to 1
tend the sessions of the American y
p- ttional Livestock association aud 10
a. liver an address before the Nation
IA Woolgrowers' association on the 81
ject Of 'Woolgrowing in the Orien
That livestock conditions in Calift
MIA have not been Of the most Opfim
tie nature. but that the rains. Renei
NJ over the state last week. Will, In
measure, afford relief. was the opini
expressed by Elewellyn 4. Mares
p Fresno. president Of The Califorf
ar GaftIemen's association,
IL one o. the effects Of the war on
ci- livestock Industry II the stimulation
"a knitting For the first time Ia the i
~ tory of the conventions IF the Ans
can National Live Stock assOciafl
" women sat I'm the audience knittl
iai sweaters and mufflers for soldiers
X their husbands debated moments
re matters pertaining 10 the present m
ket conditions