Arizona republican., 1921-01-13
TEXAS LIVESTOCK MAN MAKES BITTER
 ATTACK ON BIG }
PRESIDENT OF CATTLE ASSOCIATION SAYS STOCKMEN CAN NOT JOIN
 HANDS WITH PACKERS ADVOCATES RAISING FEWER AND BETTER CATTLE
TRepubIIean A. p. Leased wirel

lNcpubllcan A. P. Leased WIreI ILL PASO. Tex. Jan. 12-The anti- administration element of the Amer ican National Livestock association lost its first slxirmish here today when It's opposition to a resolution endors- ing Henry c. Wallace of Des Moines, Ia. for secretary of agriculture was over-ridden by a vote of the conven- ten. The vote endorsing Wallace came after charges had been made on the convention floor that opposition to Wallace came from the big meat packers.
 Taken as a whole. today's session of the convention was bad one for the big packing companies. During the dis cussion of the Wallace resolution sev- eral broadsides were fired in the di- rection of the big packers, while earlier W. W. Turney of El Paso, pres ident of the Cattle Raisers' Associa- ton of Texas. had arraigned the "Big Five" and amid cheers of the delegates had declared that the stoclCmen could aot join hands with the packers
 They tell us." declared Turney. that in the business of the packer there Is absolutely the sharpest kind or competition, that they actually fight each other. The American Packers association reports come to me, but I have never discovered in them any divergence of opinion. Now you men have divergence of opinion, you have differences, you have hot arguments, but have never heard of a disagree ment between the five big ones, or the 2t4 little ones.
 They ten us not only there is the strongest kind of competition amongst them. but that the big fellow and the little fellow individually and coIlec- lively have no more to do with the price of the product than you have. In other words. that Swift, Morris, Will son and Cudahy have no more to do with naming the sale price of their wholesale product than an outsider.
 Its see how that statement works out. The packers have given us the information that this has been the most disastrous year almost in their history. It has been said that the great credit due the packers was that they absorbed your product when it came. fat or lean, when it came by thousands or by millions, that they always had the money and paid you something for it. whether they needed e or not During this past fall animals of every kind and price remained in the Kansas City stockyards and in the Chicago stoclCyartis eating $40 hay that cost SIS cut year before last, un- hl AuEN EIrM HU lIlAlA NAltl NAAtN elAAAocA blew away, and no packer, no spec ulator and no country buyer appeared to take them off your hands. So that Ereat pronouncement that they never Neft one unbought has been exploded.
 Assails "5ig Five"
 -The packers tell us that 1t was a bad year, and yet Mir. Louis Swift says that by figuring around little, pull ing here and pulling there, he was able for the year 1920 to declare a dividend of twelve million doIlars-S per cent on about s150.O00.000.
 Where did the s150, ,00O. 900 come from2 Who made the s150,000,0OO upon which. during a panic, during a period of world distress they can de- clare a s12.000. 900 dividend, and what win they be able to do if somebody doesn't look after their business?
 And while they were making this big dividend they gave you nothing for the hide: they allowed you noth- ing for the other by-products worth mentioning because they said they were non-salable. If hides come back. or partially come back, they have them now stored by the millions If fat comes back and the price doubles. you never hear of 1t, though you lost it when you sold your anil nal.
 These same men are grouped with the great leather companies doing business in New England. These great leather companies. when hides are SC low. down at my shipping station, of fer me a dollar for a grown hide and 90 cents for a calf hide. Notwith- standing this depreciation of hides leather manufactured into harness ana everything that you use is just about where it was before"
 Concluding Turney declared the stockmen could get out of their pres ent unfavorable situation by reducing the number of their cattle, selling tho undesirnbles.
 Fewer and Better Cattle
 Let's have fewer and better cattle
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