El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-03-05

nave had hard time Of it. Yet 1
know that when you were called on TO
buy Liberty bonds or support the Red
Cross you did IL to the extent Of
straining your credit and no other
men have done better.
I am in a position with the federal
reserve bank TO know what the stock
men have done in the production Of
meat and buying bonds TO tide over
that desperate and dangerous time Of
war.
Praises Federal Reserve.
7 want 10 Tell you too. that the
federal reserve banking system was
the best thing ever done for the live
stock. producers or any other busi-
ness interests
we had always been told that IN
case Of a great war what soaring
prices catuemen would get but Ia
these days when you have to own or
pracIlcally own your range land with
all attendant expenses Of these pres
ent days, I do not believe you are
financially bit better off than IN
the free range days and cheap cattle
I have just listened 10 the packers
side Of a question now agitating the
country and Of great interest 70 you
I know something about the packing
companies and their methods and I
can tell you IL IS the most magnifi-
Gently working piece OF business ma
chinery in the world, not even except
ing Standard Oil
Refers TO Packers.
I recommend IFS business and ef-
ficiency methods TO you I can say.
TOO, that they with their efficiency
and handling products also did much
should have gone into in 1914. but the
politician was abroad in the land say
ing to you that we should 90 on max
ing money-and then going in two
years and half later and not prepared
4 recommend the efficient methods
together with the packers and let US
see il we cannot arrive at a practical
and constructive solution as Mr.
Brooks stated.
i was not assigned a subject nor
could assign myself one. I want TO
are followed by those Of peace. We
now see in Russia no government, no
law and men profess TO believe such.
Iney believe only in the power Of him
who can take out and kill Nor is it
alone in Russia. where they DO not be-
lieve a man shall own property which
he has earned but in England, where
the government is a dozen times more
responsive TO public opinion than here,
the country is totterlng because Boil
shevistic ideas are breaking out. Even
in Butte Mont. and other parts Of
E.
and are making Similar demands.
warn you OF these dangerous ideas
which are gaining ground and I do
not believe sturdy stockmen viii stand
for such ideas which are cropping out.
Increase Of Cattle.
1T is said that there has been even
in ancrease Of cattle since the war
begun in three years drouth and in
creased consumption I question the
statistics, but they show. anyway. how
production might be increased under
normal conditions Population Is in
creasing and herewith consumption.
but I hope il viii not be increased
any more by those poisonous elements
from Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and
Turkey, who stab our free government
and us individually. figuratively and
literally with sword and Bolshevistic
principles"
When the morning session OF the
cattlemen's convention adjourned at
1890 o'clock Wednesday, the visiting
cattlemen found q large number Of
automobiles waiting on Overland
street TO take them TO the Peyton
packing plant where they enjoyed a
barbecue luncheon.
After the luncheon they were taken
over the packing plant to witness a
demonstration Of how fresh meat is
prepared after the cattle arrive and
are killed The Ell Paso Automobile
club cooperated with the chamber of
commerce in carrying the cattlemeu TO
the plant, me members Of the club do
mating their cars for the purpose