Show TO TUl It Is 1 moot that once onee more beneath the shade of at the the tho plainsmen should gather Th pMt past sc n YEar we hav far U and wide and our council fires e e been on the heroic plains n o Xai in the tho City of the Sains and sights on the chin shores or of the tho great lakes by bv the banks of oC the tho Big where lops hips the tho potent Paci tic and rolls the Oregon and now ye e crags and peaks we are c once again agahi Nor have havo we the men come alone Or friends and ellow workers In the calling made honorable I and historic by Abraham and Isaac have with us Our brethren ot or orthe the Iron rail our friends from the mighty 1 factory actor the fancy brooder breed r the thought thoughtful Lul ful feeder the tra ers who buy and sell sell sellI I the have IUle aU all come to meet in n with the mon men of the tho anti nU this gathering shall hai be historic The lion wilt Ul lie lle down dawn with the lamb and the oUs shall embrace the wat waters on eVer every fleecy cloud borne on on the I ot OK every breeze we read raad the tho Ie legend end Ono far tor aU all and alt all for fer one i The roar Ju Ju t cl sud has boon been a mo I mOnto on for foE the ts I t and for your our ou Calamities ana anO Ii h ve v e been beu The rIm grim raper Death has hs dealt dult severely with u us I lit lh tak taka way In his that i sterling frIend worker ant amt prince of od our nur late Martin Muy p co I JU go with The pH past f hn ha seen n 11 continuation oC If thC falling prIces pres fur for ran t cattle cottle In all t 1 tw Ko ov to averaged s peor er Itta un all 1111 To ToPI Tc PI rt U l eN b bY I Ithe the tU 8 the mutton grower I Ia a rth t l t sat s It wId of wool to 1171 w r ut uC that an alt paNon at t this time IC to be or of the brightest In the moo face 1 1 the ar 1 bumper una r corn crop rop it tn before lonG the cattle feuder I lii II his 1111 r feed Iota or storo his corn tr fr year ear The Thu in he cannot p JJ do sooner or lat later r he be must t rd d When h this movement b ns t a muck 1 d market will wUl open for tor nile ana move upward I feature ot of the liast Jeur hs i o botn n tM the th r I 1 rat fat how Kt at J tn City and th I at ox eX hi bit ions ha have l furnished o ocular ular or Of orthe the arit nt In the seh bro oln Ihl t or of livestock lIptock that has haa Cc the peat five urMo rhe OX lX ii hit were Wre not nol tu to bred see c tint of the country has demon t sti sted 1 In hi no manner that r results in HI Rn and t leeding OIl lit be hL out by range m c ShE I a no the Jand of oC the lou lOng hr but today th 01 of scientific br breeding the tan i ane Ve liner doff our huts huls In honor bonor t the ione Star State the tha yr Ar the h activity of your yom yoma a O has hus been greatly hampered by of your treasury Your 1 have however been tu to Vash Ington In connection with J legislative mat mut In pursuance of oC resolutions J at the Portland meeting They have re luuk hek that hIlt un all Us that could h have ve ben been for izi in it a presidential scar par our friends at the national capital allt l In Il a winning Wit way bade u us hope hopt for or better things In Iii the future Your met In In February with the traffic dl di c os of 0 u a of western trunk ies es and In with efforts made mado by succeeded In It a meas nrc In softening some ome of the that railroad imposed ul upon on I uin U In August under tho auspices of this 1 association the aDd nd commission appoint appointed ed cd b by President Roosevelt held a 1 hear hearing i lug ing in III this for the purpose of oC dis the ran range and I tg the thc de desire ire or of the range ranse men as to this proposition This slon brought out the fact that of late years ears earsa a great change had occurred d In the trend trond of our thoughts concerning th the public domain The sentiment nt was endon endorsed d that it was that al all crazing arH areas should be be place placed under governmental ju Jurisdiction and and that a control be lf under the supervision of the department of agriculture which rt og resent conditions 18 as a point sek seek to a new order of things Inuring to the benefit or of the rane and al all Prent Present occupancy pancy to determine o of r range nce right ned nud chAnge changes when made to be so gradual and so 80 regulated as not to cre create ate commercial distress to th interests directly Involved involve 0 In this retrospect covering the past year ea In ill the world wp we forber forebear on the tho fae that o one whom we may muy bo be Pardoned In calling one of U us has hus ben been elected to tle the l I am sure that tIlls this sen wi will not bl be styled political as far as the we west t th the homo of oC the livestock Industry Is concerned poli poh ti on this this occasion seem to huc been wel well nigh wI wined out The election or of the man who loves lair fai py play sad ad a square del deal I beleve believe means more to to the livestock agrarian nn Interests ot the great west than the most would For the R firn Tt time In our history there is a man manIn j In thc White Hou who knows and un unI and wi will help us us Whether hether we wean I can an rIte rice to lo the and do our part to lo b be sen seen Another nother such may not flot occur In generations I During tl II t the past year the e fl or your pr I t and executive f officers L Lb have b been en largely devoted to a reo reorganization o of your The Tho condition or of our treasury the Inefficiency or of your er ef efforts forts al and the general lack Jack of Interest shown In your our association b by the uld allied h Issues KUe some of which went so far as to from membership had demon demou demonstrated nee for radIcal treatment It lies beme become eld evident nt that your association j I 1 national U 1 in name i Is not s in t The c constitution r r f n which h binds tU u Is too narrow in it its scope und and does f nt not provide k centralization your financial scheme Is uncertain Im Improvident tt C and not ilOt based on principles In Ina a word YOU are attempting to draw a i I t ou andton ld load wih with a en enSle eno gins o Slet t Edmund Burke has reflected He that 4 wt with u us ns ma oar nerve and shar ns our Our antagonist is our This hiN truth we might sup supplement b by adding Men learn best et etI through I fJ their i errors mistakes are nut It vali if DOt t te repeated e I the concurrence ot of the majority of m my fellow stock men en can be r relied Ul on In uee two bro broad First we e Ja have from our own error errors as wen well A a th the blun blunder blunders der ders or of others Send Second we al tire t facing in In Inera an era bed based on changed physical h seRI anti corn com Int mercial conditions 0 Our own have been many Trough Through I a shortsighted and policy our gazIng grazing r s h have vo lost 1 it IRre large part of their value Where herc two blades or gras grass grew before but one on grows OWa now o Js is the range n man as U h breeding muon better it cattle tr or ra sheep h or h horses hl that uh he bred a deade decade ago is lie he cring caring for tor and feeding I them so as to bring out the very h atil best that intended n I think t not notis is 8 this Do our catle cattle an and shel shop go to t market In the perfect for form they Y should bre bred wel w elI ted fed weI welt nigh perfect In shave and condition or ordo ordo do w wi oren often send scrubs s which the fee feed feeder er t is afraid to touch und and which th the can nor only can an Have we set up UI quart quah tt a as the god gOll we worship and doing theo these things do we lay lav the for tor poor cash at the thed d doors ON ot of the and the l eon the one beuse because In the of transportation he did not transform our scrub rub Into a thorough thoroughbred bred and accusIng the tite other others of lating U th markets because ause our hal halfe tra trash brugh u us nothing Is s this I progress I Is our wo woi shorn und and packed I 1 and graded and marketed In a scientific man nor Nor art are our own mistakes the only ones that have hur hurt us UR nor have hac th r mn men and feeders alone been and who ho have havo properly bre bred and properly red their their ani aiti animals mals rejoicing that their Jabol labors were don and the golden harvest bou to bu be gathered have hae consigned e th their lr stuff sture to the tender mercies ot of the the c cOmmon car carnor rIc nor Time and again have they seen ten te the o of their labor Jabor destroyed anc profits shrunk and sacrificed on on the countess countless sidetracks of a ad and in indifferent different corporation Tho gh believing that man many and knowing that s nit 4 road O res es are unscientific and unjust yet ct I maintain that inefficient and many times nc negligent raIlroad service has cost the livestock dollars whore thc tho excess 8 In freight rates rate m may r be 00 ouse for n lJ rates but gross or t crIminal ce I alone can account for Cor much de j d At the hc recent meeting of the National Livestock Association held In Denver President Frank J 1 Hagenbart of the As Association made the following Addre Address r raIlroad service wo w hav have suffered Is this uros 00 Ten Then again our fren friend the lacker packer has tul In the way of f er error In the thu scion development of hIs of the In d str and economical marketing of oC his Wae waxes th pucker sta stands ds unique and aloe lIe be as converted the waste of the thu slaughtered animal into gold h he like the 11 jas s b been n U a gat great force torce In the up building or of the commercial lul world yet and I we presume ju just to pre prove that after aU all he h is but human human lh the lt kur tHIc perhaps f the JI d not th the heart heart but none the Il less to ot es has Ha he established the two 03 day market whereby the Ule surplus ship hilt shipment mot ment of ono one day Is US to Ir bear Ue tite price of at supplies ut of the next Others mo competent mp wll will nn Thu ho packer claIms h he wants a st steady y market led by lJ stady supplies Markel man Uon such suh as have been In the tho ur are lot Hut conducive l to steadiness Is I it a deal when re are hi hid for second cuts off f rat t stuff when th stuff tur Is bou ht to kl kill and not to fee feed Do Does this tr treatment the lag cud nd feeding or of animals Is I th I Our government the Institution In history has too made or of and neglect primarily hl l to our inaction Though millions expended for or the benefit or of agricultural and Interests the Jve live stock industry scanty recognition Vc ar are not afraid of at puter Governmental interest In and dl di re tol scientific ot lve live stock tok 1 met mont is curried on on to u a le less extent In our own It paternal gov thul thuit In an any other civilized country Is this progress Other mistakes have hav boon been ma made which I may not ie be charge charged tu to any specific later cot t ur or brasch or of th the For lit In stance ur our method of marketing Ix is Pu scientific and crude e neither time I nor l c of oC shipment Is con consIdered the result being e sie or tri i buton of sU on the various We 0 ship hiv us as some railroads make mako makeI I rates by This ovi evil results from ignorance on the part of the shipper I He He lisa has no data datu or comparative I I lion for his guidance nt at hand and ships I when ho he gets rady ready and where his instinct t I may determine At certain seasons ot of the I yest the great lr cry car shortage goes Yet Up Ill thile I 1 do not blev believe that the rl rail railroads J roads withhold theo these cr cars from philan motives yet in my judgen judgment my myS S frIends w were r they available It at the times and nd In the the shippers order them every freight engine In th the country would b be bus busy hauling lve live stock stock f facilities clUe would b be paralyzed packers un Unable abe able to Idl kill or s sell l our stuff the markets demoralized and many man of us bankrupted The shortage of car cars compels us us to make even distribution of our ship meats In s spite of ourselves and aud thus ate steady los losand and prices We Ve do torn rom fore force of circum circumstances stances that wl which lh wo we should hould 10 tie from choice chance net science guides us From what has heretofore bc been n sid said 1 I hope that I wi will not h lie classo amo among the pessimists I H see many and hopeful signs for our industry He He who loves U us tells us of oC our oar faults our virtues wI will take care of themselves But In this a age e of progress and science are wo we kee keep In lug pace Is there thore nothing wrong 1 wi wIll luote you a few to mo me by a prominent New Mexico cattleman Tle The truth of the mate matter Is Ia that and I Iguess guess yoU know wel welt a as I do If Ie not b better ter the western cow mon man Is something like till n olli por cow that bus hus ben been hazed around In the roundup a and finally gets getsoff or off to herself and amI Is on tho prod She makes I a run at everything that comes hr her herway wa way knowing knowing neither friend nor foe Vu Vo hove have hd had such u a devil of u a rough deal thee these In last t few tew years or that w we b begin to doubt the thc honest honesty und and good ocl intentions ot of eVEY every one I it may not b be the packers i it ml may not b be the commission men It my mynot not be th the or oven even the railroads but some wn way very every mans han hand seems to toI tobe bu be against us these days dars When leveI level levelheaded headed men feel this way aU all Is nu not right I The remd remedy for most of our trouble troubles I is In our hands and by this I 1 a of cac each h and ever every livestock I interest and organization so big fO so brud broad so solid soUd so impartial that S I cism wil will bo disarmed and honor and obedIence follow It its every dictum You i ou have heard I it said that this hlo idea is hs els ls I or Utopian Have we then thon a point In this Industry beyond which Wl wc cannot go Is the noon us usI usTa I Ta abuse of or atta k ul upon on an alEd In inI I the only method or of correcting bad badI I I conditions You cant catch flies Utes with I vinegar or court a a girl with the big bigI I stick The age of the thc club and stone hatchet 11 has given Iven way to the acc age or of ron rea ronson sn son and arbitration I 1 The rho livestock Industry is like ib woven cloth the producer fors forms the varl warp the I I transportation and inter eats become the woof and neIther can canI exist elst without th the other A we weak k or do de I spot anywhere injUres the whole fabric fabricA A famous orator has declared Al MI Sov gov indeed deery every human benefit and It enjoyment every virtue and every pru prudent pm dent at act Is founded ott on compromise and barter By I a thorough or of every national lIvestock interest ft we wc col J gain muck much Ind and singly lose noth nothIng tug Ing that we now have I If the wool grower believes the rates on his too he dos 1005 not flOt lose the e or of caring that contention to the highest c r n the land or to have havo enacted that wil will make a fair adjustment possible r r doe does te the corn com mit himself to a peaceable of of bad railroad serle service or om rat rates J nor are the railroads irrevocably bound to forever for nothing private i ator oars for the packer nor wU will the puck t l 0 be compelled to It 1 PaY corn com fed rr t S I brush stuffed with sage I sin am optimistic h to feel that tha many of our differences being founded on ignorance of at true and lack of understanding out another can eRn b be or regulated by such an organization BY title this plan we call un at l t determine cler clear ly IX the lines or of demarcation U ts f and If Ie fight we must must ascertain precisely I what l we urt art fighting about I Friction is isI 1 J I Waste found Ignorance audi andl I are arc the 1 to Ir PVC Ir gress I Let Iet us dispel th the 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