Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-01-18
STOCKMEN SHOW
THEIR PATRIOTISM
ARE BACK OF 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 it 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 il from
the twenty-frst annual convention of
the National Livestock association, in
session, to General John J. Pershing,
commander of the American expedi-
uonary 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. T. Pryor sound
ed the tOcsin of patriotic cooperation
between the livestock men and the
government in his annual address
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 it 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 f.
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 the
proposed opening of the Juarez plant
the placing of premium upon confis-
cation of American-owned cattle by
Mclean bandits and the opening of
door through which these Mexican cat
lie rustlers could easily dispose of the
stock at a handsome profit
md to the exclusion of possible re-
iress by the rightful American own
srs.
The two-fold duty of the American
livestock men is to see to it that the
nation at large is supplied to the full
.st extent with meats and meat prod
lets and at the same time TO observe
lue regard for the law of Self-preser-
Tation which demands that he pre-
erve his industry, was the subject of
stirring address before the opening
session of the twenty-first annual con-
-ention of the American National
livestock association by Frank ].
former president of this
association and now president of the
National Woolgrowers' association.
Senator Patrick Sullivan, from Cas-
Ter, Wyo., was at the livestock con-
-ention, with the announcement that
he first Wyoming man, if he comes
rom Casper to drop bomb in Berlin
an call upon him to receive $4,000
ash.
1t has been conservatively estimated
hat not to exceed 25.000,000 acres will
yer be homesteaded under the 640,-
ere act. or about One-tenth of the I'M
unreserved public do
nain, says President Pryor. A COM
lete classification of the remainder
hould be made as promptly as pos
ible, and we should urge congress to
rant the necessary funds for that
york.
DIR. IsSa Tanimura, commissioner of
livestock of Japan, from Toxic ar
ived in the city Sunday night to at
end the sessions of the American Ma
iOnal Livestock association and To de-
yer an address before the National
association ION the sub
ect of "Woolgrowing in the Orient"
That livestock conditions in Califor-
ia have not been of the most optimiS-
L. nature, but that the rains. general
yer the state last week, Will, In Il
ieasure, afford relief. was the opinion
by Llewellyn A. Mares Of
resno. president of the California
association.
One of the effects of the war on the
vestock industry is the stimulation Of
hitting. For the first time in the his
Dry of the conventions of the Ameri-
nm National Live Stock association
'omen sat in the audience knitting
weaters and muffiers for soldiers rs
leir husbands debated momentous
latters pertaining to the present mar
ct conditions.