The Coconino sun., 1921-08-12
July 2l, 1921.

July 21, 1921. Arizona Cattle Growers Association, Arizona Wool Growers Association,
 Flagstaff, Arizona.
 Gentlemen:
 have received and feel honored by your kind invitation to be present at the joint meeting of the Arizona Cat tie Growers association and the Ari- zona Wool Growers association, but inasmuch as l cannot personally be present I avail myself of this oppor- tunity to submit for your considera- tions some views which hope may be deemed worthy to be read at your joint session.
 At the outset, permit me to con graduate each and all of you upon the manful way in which you have withstood the disastrous shock which always comes as the back-wash of a long and destructive war.
 Your financial losses have been tre- mendously heavy, and like true sports men and true patriots you have spent very little time in useless complaint but have met these disastrous days with high courage and brave hearts.
 While it is true that widespread dis aster in business and trade comes as the reaction of great war, it is also sadly true that the present enormous depression and decline in the price of everything produced by the livestock growers, farmers and ranchers, have been made more acute and destructive by some unwise governmental policies which seem to have been followed by our government for the past fifty years.
 For example: The Department of Agriculture annually spends millions of dollars in an honest attempt to aid Tons of printed pamphlets are sent out each year telling the farmer how to kill gophers and prairie dogs, how to breed and feed cattle, sheep and hogs, how to raise cotton and wheat, etc, all of which is very good. Az ricultural colleges are maintained to instruct the stockraisers and farmer how to produce larger crops, larger herds, larger focks, but the stock raiser and farmer are growing sus- picious of a system which instructs them how to raise cattle, sheep, wheat, cotton, etc., but which allows the bottom to drop out of his market just at the very same time when the stockraiser and farmer should and ought to be receiving some substan- tial returns for the money, the time and the muscle he has put into his business; therefore, some way must and will be found to see to it that market shall be vouchsafed to the producer.
 One solution (but not the only one) to afford relief would be to extend longtime credits and complete dis count privileges to farm and livestock negotiable paper so that the livestock grower and the farmer would not be compelled to sell under pressure when the market was unfavorable, but could wait one year or two years until the market conditions were more favor !, able. or in other words, to keep his head above water until he could sell at profit.
 Fifty-two per cent of the people of the United States live in cities or towns having population of over twenty-five hundred, and these city dwellers deliver beautiful orations to your men and young women urging them to get back to the farm," but they forget that the only way to keep the boys and girls on the farm is to make the farm profitable.
 Nobody has any justification for ex- pecting that the stockraiser and far mer should continue to produce beef,