Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
URGE STOCK RAISERS
 TO DEMAND PASSAGE
 OF PACKERS MEASURE
Kendrick-Kenyon Bill Is Most Favorable to Indus try, Market Committee Tells Convention
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

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 mand passage of the Kendrick- -Kenyor 1 bill, now pending in congress, provid 1 ing for regulation of the meat packing | industry. | After having recounted it's activities especially in connection with the gov
 ernment investigation of the packing | industry and the attorney generals agreement for the packers withdrawa 1 from side lines.'' the report declared First, you ought to make clear tc the attorney general and to the country the tremendous interest of the live stock producers in making his decree effective.
 Second. you ought. with renewed vigor, to continue the fight for legis islation."
 Say Packers Misrepresented
 The report charges the packers witf having conducted a great campaign in misrepresentation" and with hav- ing attempted to prevent livestock as saciotions from endorsing the bills fol thei regulation.
 "The fruits of victory can only be
 made secure by legislation the report continues, which will not only provide
 an efficient agency clothed with au-
 thority to make the decree of the court effective. but which w;ll provide for
 some other things without which the markets can not be free; namely, gov
 ernment regulation, publicity. uniform accounting. refrigerator car service, which all together mean equal oppor- tunity We demand clear, open system of production, manufac- ture and distribution, free from dark passages concealing the real beneficial ries of the consummer's dollar"
 Senator kendrick Gives Views
 Senator John B. Kendrick, president of the association, and one of the fla thers of the Kendrick- Kenyon bill, f,,11 thH svox fx,1r try from all angles in an address be- fore the convention today. He touched upon the export trade. the foreign com petition, the American market, the campaign waged by the market com mittee of the National Livestock as- sociation, the injunction against the packers, results of the campaign, and concluded with the following on legis- lation:
 No man need fear the results of the legislation that we ask. We offer no radical experiment. We propose no very essence of conservatism. for it aims only at the restoration in the American livestock market of. the free and unfettered application of the law of supply and demand.
 Do we seek vengeance on any man or any set of men? Not by any means. Let the dead past bury it's dead.
 Are we trying to set up some ai- truistic scheme proposed by theorists who know nothing of our business? Not at all. We are intensely practical. We want to creae a situation that Vrs American packer to develop to the very fullest extent the great possibilities of domestic and foreign trade.
 Not Seeking Price Fixing
 Have we any thought of introduc- ing a policy of price fixing through government or trade agencies? On the contrary, our purpose in seeking this legislation is to avoid that very thing. We want to make it impossible TOT any person. official or unofficial, to name the price at which the producer sells or at which the consumer buys.
 Do we propose interference by any outside agency in this industry to which we have given our lives? Far from it. We want to prevent inter- ference. We want to tear down artifi- cial restraints; We want to abolish ar restrictions. We want free American market, market which every day shall register the value of 8 consignment of livestock as accurate ly as the scales register its weight
 ITO bring this about, two things are needful
 "First-The removal of all instru- ments of monopoly
 "Second-The establishment of an official agency which, through the per- light of publicity. will reveal all the facts having to do with the op- eration of our markets and which shall be enabled to proclaim those facts with the voice of authority to all in- terested parties. 'Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make ye -ree.'
 Is National Problem
 This is national, notsa local prob  profits shall be or what the profits of he packers shall be. It is a question ,f the ultimate good of the entire na- ion, and there is not a hungry child n the humblest home in America who S not -vitally concerned in the solution ,f this problem.
 Those who oppose this legislation contend that there is no more reason o legislate for this industry than for my other. We contend that such position is untenable for the reason hat there is no similarity between this md other lines of business either in volume of transactions or in the meth 'ds employed. The character of the product and the ever-increasing diffi- ;ufies under which it is marketed place the shipper of livestock under many natural disadvantages. Under he present system, he has no choice either of markets or of market facili- ies f1e may certainly decline to ship o the market nearest to him, and send lis stock to one farther away, but in 70 doing the only change is geo. one. He must in the end ,ay the same prices per head for yard | lge. the same or practically the same | prices for feed, he must pay the same 1 commission to the same commission | irms and sell his stock to the same | 'uyers. If he tried one market and | hen decided to ship to another, there | as been unquestioned evidence that in | he past he was punished. The result | was that the last stage of | hat man was worse than the first.
 Tn the light of these and all other | hey need no recounting, our central | markets long ago became great public | tiIities through which must pass not l nly the greatest volume of business f any industry of the nation. but one f the most vitally essential of the ma. l ions food products.
 Every man connected with the fn- ustry in any capacity should enter hese great public markets with the ullest faith and unfailing confidence. Ie should at all times feel the pride of