The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-10-23


curely and not count on any war CON-
ditions to keep alive the industries
OF our country. Now. things are COM
Ing back again to the old standards,
the old conditions. and we must have
something to strengthen them.
The live stock industry is suffering
as ! have told you. Why? Because
OF the tremendous Importation of
American meats. Do you realize that
the great packers are interested in
the South American cattle industry?
That these cattle are being herded
there on South American plains by
the tens of thousands. Do you rea-
lie they are being herded by poems.
That they are trying to bring the
standard OF the American herder
down to that of the peon. May they
never do 1t. We have a high stand
ard for labor and we want to do our
best to raise that standard. We don't
want to bring them down to the level
of the poems of South America. That
may not affect the miners. But, they
must remember that they have broth
ers out on the plains and mountains
tonight herding the cattle. They are
not comfortable. They are out in
the storm and the wind gathering to-
gether their herds. They don't have
a comfortable bed. and comfortable
house. and a tempting meal spread
on the table. They have to brave the
elements on such nights as these
and they have to keep at 1t. They
have to undergo hardships that we
know little about. know about
them because I have had experience
in this business. Those men are be-
ing injured to-day. We are bringing
them down to the South American
peon and II is not right. 1t is no more
right than to bring our miners down
to the status of the Chinaman.
Do you realize that the sheep in
dustry is suffering as well as the beef
industry. Do you know that 1,190,-
900 carcasses of mutton and lamb
have been imported from Australia.
and South America and New Zea
land since January. and that over a
million more viii come In during the
next six months. New Zealand has
237. 100000 pounds of frozen mutton
and lamb in her warehouses and she
is preparing to ship Ii into this coun-
try as fast as ships can bring 1t. Eng
land has an amount of surplus wool
in her own country equal to a two
years consumption of this country.
The wooden manufacturers of Eng
land are not buying that surplus be-
cause they are preparing to buy the
1920 crop from New Zealand and Aus
tralia. This great surplus is coming
into the United States. Yet, we have
to pay high prices for our clothes
just the same. There are hundreds
of millions of pounds of surplus wool
in Australia. New Zealand. South
America and Africa and seventy-five
per cent of our 1920 crop is unsold.
That means a depreciation in the
sheep industry. That will effect the
mining industry because the men in
terested In sheep help carry on the
mining industry. We men know how
that is. When a prospect is found,
money must be had to finance 1t.
Some OF our government institutions
in Washington have been using for
eign beef from South America.
For years. our competitors. the
Democrats, have been very glad to
say that the Republicans have fav-
vored the big interests. Now, how
ever. they will never be able to say
that again. Because, In the last few
years. in Washington the administra-
tion has favored them as they have
never been favored before and as they
never dreamed theywould be favored.
1t has been done on gigantic scale
and at the expense of the American
people. 1t has been done at the ex-
pense Of the people who gave up their
fortunes. of the people who gave up
their all. gave unselfishly and un-
stintingly. A period Of fraud and ex-
travagance has gone on which has
been scandalous. unequaled.
Do you know, going back to this
protection, that the large beef pack
ers don't want a tariff on beef and
mutton and lamb because they want
to bring in the cheap foreign stun.
II there was a tariff the Americans
would get the profit and not the for
eigners. Do you realize that the large
steel industries are opposed to the
tariff on metals because they want
cheap tungsten. cheap manganese and
cheap vanadium from other coun-
tries. Our friend. Mr.. Arentz, knows
something about that. He encount-
cred that In Clark County. He work
cd hard down there and he found
enormous deposits of vanadium which
would mean the employment of large
numbers OF men for years to come II
that would be developed. He found
the large steel industries would not
consider 1t at all because they could
get cheaper yanadium from South