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Show Some of the Gossip That Is Heard When a Lot of Sheepmen Get Together and Unload Their Trials and Tribulations The Utah State Woolgrowers association associa-tion is going to tho next national convention, con-vention, heeled. The men from Utah who will go to Portland will bo organized. organ-ized. They will know precisely what they want from tho national convention, and they aro going prepared to get It. The Utah woolgrowers did not cut so much of :i flguro In the Ogdcn convention, conven-tion, becauso they did not know what they wanted; they were divided and 'they wore not numerous enough. In brief, they did not make themselves felt to tho extent comporting to tho dignity and standing and power of the association. associa-tion. "It Is truo that wo were not properly prop-erly organized for tho Ogden convention, said President 13. II. Calllster in. the directors' di-rectors' meeting Tuesday afternoon, "but In splto of thai fact, Utah came to the front In two conspicuous Instances at least. It was Utah that put through the resolution asking the president to appoint a practical western man to succeed suc-ceed Gilford Pinchot :us chief forester, and I believe that resolution will have a good deal of weight with the president. It was Utah, too, that put in the amended amend-ed bylaw that the national association incorporate. in-corporate. "Those two things alono aro worthy of mention, but I frankly confess that we wcro not united as we should have been. Utah could easily have gotten cither the secretaryship or tho presidency. presiden-cy. Indeed, 1 understand I was not at the meeting that Utah did endorse a man for vice president, hut when we got to that point of ordor In tho convention con-vention that man himself nominated Mr. Delfelder of Wyoming." It. Is a fact that Utah saved tho scalp of Secretary George S. Walker. It is known, too. that the national association is practically centralized in Idaho, and that, had tho Utah delegation not come to tho rescuo of Mr. Walker. Mr. Walker would not now have his Job, but the secretaryship sec-retaryship would be In Idaho, along with tho presidency. As a matter of fact, Idaho men one man, at any rate 'fossed up that the scheme of tho Good-Inga Good-Inga was to place the election of a secretary sec-retary in tho hands of tho board of control, con-trol, of which body three may constitute a quorum. The secretary was to be appointed ap-pointed by this board of control, "by and with the consent of tho president," who was Fred Gooding, and that this board of control was "not likely" to name Walker. In tho convention. Mr. Calllster of the Utah delegation secured a change in the order selecting tho secretary, so that it be done by tho executive committee, which consists of twenty-nine representatives represen-tatives from various states, and whose minimum of quorum is seven. Moreover, the Utah delegation secured the adoption adop-tion by tho convention of a resolution recommending that tho executive committee com-mittee select Mr. Walker. As a matter of fact, Utah recognized In Mr. Walker a competent and capable man, one who had done everything toward the upbuilding of the association, and Utah wanted to retain him in office for that reason. Utah saw. too, that If tho Goodlngs prevailed. Idaho's position would bo strengthened, and, In fact. Idaho would have the whole works. But oven with those things accomplished accom-plished by Utah, this state's representation representa-tion in tho national convention was neither numerically strong, nor harmonious harmoni-ous In personnel. It Is this situation which will not prevail again, If the sheepmen know themselves, and they believe be-lieve thoy dj. John II. Sccly of Mount Pleasant, one of tho biggest sheepmen in the state, tho winner of prizes without number, aroso in the directors' meeting Tucsday and voiced the sentiment of the other directors. "We want to go to Portland proper," said Mr. Seely. "We don't want to go to another national convention half-cocked. half-cocked. We want to go to Portland as we wont to Omaha, to Denver and to Fort Worth. Why, down there In Fort Worth, 'we were really - worth while. There were fifty of us, and we made a pretty big spot. In the convention hall, with our sign up and us all spread out. 'Them Mormons Is nil right,' was the conclusion the convention came to early In the game, and we were all right, too. Wo made ourselves felt, and we can make ourselves felt, and If we go to Portland Port-land heeled as we ought to be, we will make ourselves felt. "I believe wo ought to start right 6ul now to prepare for this Portland convention1. con-vention1. We want to know what we want beforo we go, and I think that if we can hold a meeting during fair time we can lake up a lot of things that will he a great help to us in formulating our plan of campaign In tho Portland meeting. meet-ing. If we meet the directors, I mean at .fair time, wo can frame lip a lot of things that woNcan shoot at the special spe-cial meeting of the association that Is to be held a few days before the Portland Port-land convention. ' If we have any differences dif-ferences In our family we can thresh them out at home. If we wait till we get to Portland wc will be too busy trying try-ing to settle our ow.ii disputes to look but for tho big things In the convention conven-tion that we must look out for If wo arc to survive and get our share oC the benefit bene-fit that comes from the, national organization." organ-ization." Everybody In the place agreed with Mr. Seely. So It is settled that Utah will go to Portland with its ammunition all prepared. pre-pared. It's a dead certain surety that C, B. Stowart Is tho man abovo all others whom the woolmcn want for secretary. There wcro plenty of speeches filled with praise of Stewart in the directors' meeting meet-ing Tuesday, and. as a prominent grower said afterwards, "everything that was said about Stewart was true, too." Mr. Calllster. the president, said that Stewart had built up the association. "This has been an uphill game." said Mr. Calllster. "Wo have had to contend con-tend with a bad past, but we have overcome over-come II. and It Is due to Mr. Stewart that this Is so. He walked Into this business when this association or any other association didn't have . a friend on earth, so to speak. Every man you talked organization to felt llko throwing you out of the window They had had organization before and thoy hellovod this association would be like tho. others. 'Lot's pay up our old debts first,' they said, 'before we talk organization any more.' "But Mr. Stowart has gotten the association asso-ciation on a sound basis, He has got in a good membership and he can get In everybody In the sheep business if wc give him a show. Everybody knows that all the work falls on the socrctnry and that the most of the rest of us arc pretty much of figureheads necessary, perhaps but wo don't count llko a sec-rotary sec-rotary does. If we have a good secretary secre-tary wo will have a good association, and If wo havo a poor secretary our association asso-ciation will be poor. Utah wanted Walker Wal-ker becauso he's a good man, and we want Stewart becauso he's a good man." This .feeling toward Stewart was apparent ap-parent in all quarters. Tho sheepmen recognize the value of the work he has done In the past year and thoy realize that ho can do equally good work this year. So they patted him on the back earnest and sincere pats, too and said, "Go to It, old man; we depend on you." Enos Bcnulon of Vernal made a good point. "I would like to say," said Mr. Bcnniou, "that it Is my belief that wo are not doing enough. We are not making mak-ing ourselves felt as we ought to and can. .One reason for this Is. I believe, that a good many of us aro not In close touch with tho situations when thoy ariso. A lot of things happen that wc, who live far away, don't know anything about until long afterwards. "Now it occurs to mo that If the secretary sec-retary would watch these things as they come up and would keep us posted, wc would bo in a position to do more than wo arc doing now. If he could write us Icttors every onco in a while telling us about the latest developments In our Industry it would help us keep abreast of tho times." The others thought this would bo a good scheme, and they heartily indorsed the suggestion. Mr. Stowart promised to keop his eyes open and his car to tho ground and Inform In-form the members on the questions of tho day. In this connection a suggestion was made after the meeting by one of the newspapor men that, If the sheepmen wanted to keop posted. It might be a good Idea to Issue a bulletin, say once a month. In this bullotin could be printed print-ed tho latest news regarding sheep conditions con-ditions and the nowly-arlsen matters that constantly bob up. Such a bulletin would bo largely In tho nature of tho snow bulletin Issued by the weather bureau, and would be exclusively a discussion of affairs directly concerning the sheepman, and nobody else. It would not be designed to encroach upon any publication or trade journal that makes a specialty of wool and sheep, but would bo merely a recital of the facts and conditions, much after the fashion of the consular reports that are sent out by tho department of commerce com-merce and labor that discuss the market for various articles of American manufacture manu-facture in foreign countries, or like tho health department bulletin that Is Issued every month. The only cost attached to this would be the cost of printing, which would be small, and which would not bo felt by tho association's treasury. Certainly this manner of disseminating sheep and wool news would beat the writing writ-ing of a Ipt of letters" all hollow, and would involvo much less labor. 0- The directors'- meeting authorized Mr. Stowart to continue his trips throughout through-out the slate for the purpose of securing new members. Mr. Stewart reported that his trip to the southern part of the state had been followed with signal success. suc-cess. "When Dr. Young and myself went into a community." said Mr. Stewart, "we wcro met with tho old prejudice against associations. They told us that they had enough of organizations, and be! loved this one was only another 'graft.' When wc explained the. thing to them, however, they were quick to see tho advantages of membership; and, Mr. President. I am happy to say that every meeting we addressed ad-dressed came Into tho association In a bodv. There was scarcely a single exception. ex-ception. I believe all that Is necessary to be done Is to put this before the sheepmen sheep-men In the right way and we can get all of them In.. "Dr. Young's lectures helped us wonderfully. won-derfully. When ho told them about this lip and leg trouble, they became Interested Inter-ested at once, and some of them recalled cases in their own herds, the character of the affliction being, until Dr. Young told them, unknown to the sheepmen. Now thev are looking out for that disease: dis-ease: they don't want it to get Into their sheep." F. P. Kosler said that there were 100,-000 100,-000 sheep In the district around Pan-guitch, Pan-guitch, and that he believed all of the owners would come Into the organization. If Mr. Stewart would go and talk to thorn. "I have talked with thorn," said Mr. ICesler, "but thoy will listen to an outsider much more quickly, than they will to a neighbor. I am firmly convinced con-vinced that we can get all those Pan-gultch Pan-gultch men In." A motion was carried that Dr. Youngs expenses should bo paid when he accompanies accom-panies Mr. Stewart on his organization trips. Dr. Young is tho stato veterinarian and he Is allowed only $500 for expense account. Ho cannot, manifestly, devote all of this money to help the sheep herds, as It Is his duty also to look after horses and cattle. So. tho sheepmen will pay his expenses whon ho s out on his lecturing lec-turing trips with tho secretary. One of tho resolutions passed Tuesday by the association took exception to tho published accounts of the meetings Monday Mon-day with reference to the factional fiffht. "That's always the way with some sheepmen." sheep-men." said a well-known grower. "They want to keep everything covered up thev want to keep everything concealed for fear that somebody will come along and take It away from them. Why, tho beGt thing that ever happened the sheepmen sheep-men of this state or any other state Is the airing of tho troubles In the organizations organiza-tions through the newspapers. The reports re-ports aro written by men who sec the ridiculous side of our quarrels, and they point out to us just what brand of d d fools wc are for fighting among ourselves. our-selves. The publicity system Is tho only svstem, with tho sljcep man as with everything ev-erything else. You don't make anything by keeping your affairs under your hat all of tho time. "If the sheepman would give more publicity pub-licity to his affairs. It would set at rest a lot of suspicion that's directed against tho woolgrower, and it would educate other people to view the sheepman in his truo light. , i "If you will look backward two or three davs you will remember that, in tho Ogden Og-den convention, the suggestion was made a number of times that thero should bo a systematic campaign of education through tho press and through magazine articles. I believe that would holp us wonderfully, and I know that the moro airing tho troubles of the factions got the less trouble there's going to be. Mnvbe von wouldn't believe it. but there'3 ono thing that a sheepman fears moro than he does the coyote, scabies, the Up and log ulceration and everything else combined, and that's the tariff tinker. The woolgrower gets a cold shiver up and down his spine every time somebody suggests that the tariff Is to be monkeyed mon-keyed with. Tho sheepman feels keenly on the question of tariff, and he Is Jealous Jeal-ous of schedule K as he Is of his sweetheart. sweet-heart. , . " , In evidence of this met, and In .evidence .evi-dence also of the fact that somo United States senators don't stand very high with the woolman. Is a letter from Theodore Theo-dore Justice which reached tho desk of Secretary Walker In the Ogdcn convention. conven-tion. Mr. Justice Is called the father of the tariff on wool. He Is a manufacturer and a. man who ranks first and foremost as nn economist In that which relates to wool from tho sheepman's point of view. In his letter, Mr. Justice evinces a particular par-ticular dislike to the sayings and doings of Senator Cummins of Iowa. An oxtract from tho letter received by Mr. Walker roads: "I deem Senator Cummins a most dangerous dan-gerous enemy to the wool Industry. Ills propensity to agitate the question of tariff tar-iff revision downward In order that ho may train office, In tho end always results re-sults In harm to tho stockman. The duty upon lldcs would never have been removed re-moved If such tariff, rippers had not lot loose a current they could not control and which swept them off their feet. The result re-sult Is that the ultimate consumer is paying pay-ing moro for shoes with free hides than he paid beforo tho duty was removed. "Now, in the next tariff revision, the woolgrower, like tho catllomen. will be the next to suffer, and your convention should adopt resolutions condemning such tariff agitators as Senator Cummins. "You will sco by the enclosed clipping that at the dollar dinner at Des Moines. Ia January 1, Senator Qummlns served notice that the fight for progressive principles prin-ciples Is not at an end. Ills attack upon Cannon and Aldrlch Is nn at.lack upon tho majority of protectionists In con-gross. con-gross. His attack upon Representative Hill of Iowa Is an attack upon a defender of the American wool industry. Senator Cummins likes to call himself a progressive. pro-gressive. He Insists that he is a protectionist, pro-tectionist, yet he Is working night and day to prevent the application of protection protec-tion to tho wool Industry. Ho would throw up his hands In horror at the charge of being an enemy of the wool-grower-, yot he Is tho wolf in sheep'3 clothing. "Your convention cannot do better work than to show him up. for In the noxt tariff revision wool will follow tho course-' taken In the last congress on hides. Their object Is to defeat protection protec-tion In detail." X. S. Nielsen of Mount Pleasant the largest Individual sheep owner In Utah, made a point In the directors' mooting Tuesday. Mr. Nielsen said that every member of the association should constitute consti-tute himself a rommltteo of one to solicit membership. If every member brought In ono other sheepman, said he. he would bo doing a valuable sorvlco. Tho remarks of Mr. Nielsen were applauded. |
