Arizona republican., 1919-08-29
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST as. 1919
In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of weak mind than irresolution. -Tillotson.
The aExpertsn of the Packers

One might gather from the meager dispatches describing the senate committee hearing the Rendrick-Kenyon bill for the regulation of the pack ing industry that the packers supported by lhe cattle industry Several witnesses have appeared in defense of the packers said to be representa- tive of the live stock industry of the wholesale grocery trade who testified that the packers were not engaged in a monopoly" that they did not 'ix prices.
 None of these witnesses are widely known and senator's as well as the casual readers of the dis patches may be mised by statements to their representative character These appear in the capacity of expert witnesses and those who have been much about the courts understand how expert witnesses are secured-the legal counsel it is only matter of money. Now and. then may secure a line as to of these experts"
 We have done in the of oe of them, Henry " Lynch. who appeared for the packers week ago yesterday, according the dispatch rep resenting the stock rasers their association in California and Arizona" While have learned nothing as to the identity of MT. Lynch have learned that he unknown the stockmen of either California Arizona. The officers of the live stock associations of neither state have heard of him and prominent live stock grower has yet been found who has even hearsay knowledge Of him Though he appeared in the flesh at Washington he is to the interests he purported to represent" wholly mythical person.
 The Kenyon -Kendrick bill was not suddenly devised measure. It is the outgrowth of grievances of the stockmen arising through long period. The basis of it was the control by the packers of the prices of live stock and the prices of These matters discussed in conventions of the Ameri- ca National Live Stock Association for some years and in all conventions live associations In all state conventions the packers had representa- tives They were present in the smaller district ventions also and it is alleged tried, sometimes with success to pack" these smaller conventions
 Meanwhile the live stock men through the Ameri- can National Live Stock Association were working out program of reform The most extensive investi cations were conducted by the marketing committee of the American National and the Kenyon -Kendrick bill is based largely upon the grievances of the stock men. This was strongly endorsed at the last vention of the association certainly that tien may regarded thoroughly representative of the live stock interests of the country.
 Both the Arizona and the Arizona cattle raisers associations have gone on record in favor of egsla tion controlling the packing industry
 There has been testimony before the committee on the part of wholesale grocers showing the need of federal interference with the packers growing trol of the countrys food supply Many of these wit nesses are we'll known On the other hand there have been witnesses claiming represent food dis trfbuting agencies who support the packers, but know as little of their relation grocery trade as we did of the relation of Mir. Lynch to the live stock industry which now we know is no relation at all