Show LIVE STUCK MEN IN CONVENTION Cattle and at Fort Worth WorthA A arid of Ito Fort Texas Jun annual convention of the National Live LiveStock Stock association of America began here today with a large of delegates President John V Springer of Den Denser ser in his annual address said Ve face with the twentieth new rapidly Conditions have forced our nation to abandon the Chinese wall policy and we are today enjoying at borne QUI greatest ity while our business for reached the unheard of of over PLACE FOR Thu question that meets an dawns upon is shall we lead or follow I sneak for forthe the greatest stock on the bce of the earth when I say va believe in leading not iii is the backbone of it great nation and the supreme contest today is or commercial supremacy We shall contest for the of the whole civilized and stand sponsor for any and ahi the weaker peoples who ault for our assistance We are ready and able to teach the advantages of ofa a liberal education a religion bIer tines and absolute political tiomi It is not a to predict that thio twentieth century our political destiny be bounded by the of North America it it does not directly or to the entire western hemisphere enterprise through Amen can labor American products Is di meeting the ship of state today the best the earth affords in none too good for our The electric chariot of is sending its throbbing hone of actIvity up and down the corn highways of the and my friends if you can not keep up with the procession you will be rapidly eel to that circle of has boens whose objections crIticisms and pro dictions of dire anti awful calamities should have written over their chaotic domains Abandon ye who enter here V Amid why Ira should not the stock stockmen men of the United States be for the new order of things than ten years ago your range horses were aching at from 5 to 25 on the market Today they bring from o to o while your saddle anti coach horses are aching at their highest figure to 1000 apiece Jes than ten years ago your cattle down here In sold at 3 for a cow with calf in while today the cow is i up and the calf at lenat 10 NOT WANDERING than a has passed dince wool went woolgathering at 8 cents it pounds on thu while next crop is now being contracted bY the big luye at 20 cents an the ranch ThOn sheep which wandered aim lessly u the trackless plains and sagebrush tints could find no buyer at lO and 2 whereas now with wool on its back is being for with great at rain 20 to 4 V Yen and not to overlook can hog years ago he for tak era at per cwt now and 5 ie raid without the be ing thrown in at oil oilIn In it any wonder ray friends when you look tue facts squarely lit the face that the live stock Industry of the States is to be found harnessed to the chariot of Is it numbers or that corn mands the gold dollars today I answer It is quality And now per permit mit nit to lay down five axioms which I hold are no State can realize a heavy immigration that Is not liberal the live stock interests ito railway manage meat will prosper long which turns a deaf ear to the complaints of stock stockmen men no liv stock market will continue to grow which imposes a terminal charge on every car of live livestock stock or the privilege of unloading at their no stockman pros prosper per does not read and liberally ad In stock journals papers and magazines the stockman who gains the greatest reward trIll be lie who quality above quantity in all of his III live I regret to be compelled to report that the railways termInating at Mis Saud river points have been very Un Ungenerous generous with the lIve stock interests in Notwithstanding a generally accepted promise made by certaIn rail railway way officials tho Ii VV Over a quarter of a century was abro excuse has been that banner year in the currying trade for the railways of this country and yet they were forced to assail the already live livestock stock Industry to their rev revenues This great should employ the traille manager obtainable and him authority to route all at our and see will furnish the beat service for the most reasonable Is thu way the made the Standard Oil combination so powerful They or ranged to own their own cars and the railroads of the United States pay them The members of the Live Stock association arc today stronger than the Oil syn We have of active in bur horses cattle sheep and owned by our own to say nothing of those we indirectly Shall we take this by the horns and twist his neck or shah we be tossed like a ball from pillar to post each tints with a little higher freight rate tacked on to our animal This great live stock ha decreed that the terminal charges at stock yards in is against public policy and must therefore be abrogated LIVE STOCK CENSUS The Import of a thorough and complete live von sue has conceded y the census adopted the of the National Live Stock and bits made it for the world to know with rat or accuracy the of valie anti numbers of horses sheep and throughout the United States l want every to aid in furnishing the full complete exact and harmonious compendium of live stock for the fIrst of the twentieth century a summary will aid materially even branch of the live V V V in our Its the Character and of stock lit the United States I hire dic that the time me At when of this country will be ol to or any animal not to olin of the as and tile out of half scrubs iiii be by bylaw law r penalty of line and meat OUTLOOK flOOD weather bulletin is lea lealure lure we hive had incorporated as a apart part of the of lbs signal Storms are now sIghted afar ci and especially over thy range country Every bIt of such is of advantage to the o of live stock The outlook for sheep anal hogs never Was thin at present and the demand for meat I on the increase nil over thai Country the greatest foreIgn dimand we have ever enjoyed will firm tune to come Ve ate here to What WO need In our business and to agree upon the of securing what We want We tire hero to originate for welfare We are here to encourage lie broadest markets and the greatest reciprocity till ne tiong of north VC are here to courage labor in its to secure su h wages hint their children may be their homes may be and better food may lIe found on their tables nd belles cloth lag n their Locke We believe in living and We believe also ip the best money which hi nations on recognize and in quantities ill stability or e never be questioned A great nit lion can afford to be liberal with oil of its and enthusiastic sup support port will over make such a common absolutely invincible AND Ii many be set down with absolute certainty the American horse its exalted a ci does at atthe the of the We nil rejoice that in the hUt two the inhuman work being compelled to pull street cars over slippery cobble clone iii our greet cities the world over lisa ceased Since electrIcity this yoke We are now aiding to still further unshackle hini from drawing the awful truckloads of the great cities as the draw these heavy vehicles amid still fur furher her relieve the faithful horse We shall Place the hares where he give hint more freedom honor him for what lie has done In the Ayes heAt au agea history speaks of him and time future will crown him as mans fittest lii the animal king dam Ills place shall be nearer he family The horse shell ever stand fur health enjoyment and lion om and invaluable We find the United States credited with nearly cattle anti a beef production of nearly tons per Look atthe result at our great markets this past selling in inthe the hoof as high as 3 ner hundred live weight Tills of course given fur time highest only by thor bulls However the average price of all beet at the has been so satisfactory that I hove yet to hear of a single complaInt froni beef producer Ve are experiencing an era of pros parity not soon to end as consumption is much more rapidly than is the production of the country As long as this condition prevails vetoes vill remain higher AND SHEEP The AmerIcan hog numbers into he mIllions and the demand grows apace Years ago a frontiersman caught one of the long haired razor bucks with snout user it foot In length it was with witha a gun or a rifle as he flew through the woods They were almost worth worthless less Now the bred hog is seen front one end of the country to the theother other our people have become con connoisseur of barn streaked bunion and country sausage They like It and the world is rapIdly following suit In 1599 the sheep of the United Staten furnished about pounds of wool from less than of sheep against sheep in 1851 rho con of mutton and lambs has in increased creased beyond the expectation of even the most sheep breeder until now nearly tons are con consumed Twenty cents predicted for tho wool crop of every woolen mill in the whole land running full tIme behind in orders and paying hIgh cm wages than have been Paid for over overa a decade And yet wIth this great in increased creased supply of wool in we pur purchased chased of foreign over of wool most of which should and will be grown on our great Western and Southern ranges We must give the sheep man his just dues anti admit that his crops have as much rIght en the lUblic as our herds It Itis is a very and shortsighted poll cy would chose the forest reserves of the United to the sheep which are growing the wool to clotho our the sheep do eat the grass nail the shrubs They have bent given thIs privilege for yen orations beck anti it should be con until the government compels and cattlemen to pay for using government grass It Is be in some quarters that the sheep than is against the government and that Ida flocks should l e driven even in into to the sea hut thIs is narrow anti and wholly without equity in any sense of the word It Is well for us usall all to remember that each American citizen must give anti take for no ama amaline line a monopoly on sunshine air water or grass on the open range rho best is the law abiding who shall delight to respect the golden rule PUBLIC LANDS beginning of a new century should witness a in our public hand system The citizens of this coun try should be encouraged to henna the groat tracts of grazing hamide anti bring them to a state of Every homesteader should be given first choice to lease for from 5 to 10 at cents pet 20 acres for every hero lie owns and the balance of the publIc lands lying iii the Vitous coUntIes of the Western States be valued by the corn of the various and the lAnd then advertised by the Fed oral government and leased to the high eel payable annually In advance for a period of from to 10 years with good bonds for PaY meat general government should be entitled to first revenue from all leases of tIme public domain and each succeeding years money should be paid Into lie treasurieS to be paid out by a uniform State law or Lh destruction of preda tory am for the erectIon of e force dams and a better vater supply on the various macgee over the portions of the country ACTIViTY department of human en deavor is pulsating wIth actIvIty There is a smaller sphere for the uneducated loan every decode anti antiA A diminishing possibility of success fit the mba who does not rend The read big man is in the saddle the thinking man ir guiding our natIonal The United States never occupied such sucha a sphere of universal influence its the century witnesses it has bern brought about by active men It marks the of a that our It laws mir our Ideas with our un V ert ii over So C t the agil lip we venerate I men of thU si t V centuries h iid live tion must 5 different under a anti cosmopolitan inure active and life thun those by I JefferSon Jackson Ot Grant having time best of you and garner thu i supreme auth uy yOur better for children raise up and pronounCe a your add Worth live tOl S the conclusion of tue At SecretarY riad the mail report of tea hit C F Martin Q annual report Ito upon the growing t of the that had ha during tonally increased and it eastern annual meeting allah not the last nOV the beyond were border of The consists of IP Secretary loiter froni lie submitted a Wilson of the of C Clive in reference to a live stock dO With to the census At had have mettle animals IV since the United such a thing milk was a nation The census shoWs cows antI other hail milk corE mules etc which fl I ta If the of thu ninth othOr women lion were women There has never been a taken of ho domestic animals in cities so that It is nfl I lees unintellIgible senseless I try to get the of the census I see if it to get somebody anti put in of agriculture in the has some conCeption of Tue secretary stated that the 1100 I 0 lowers statistician of the importance of the amid began art energetic campaign to bring about the result question of freIght rates hind oc occupied tIme of the cern of the and effOrts had been made to secure just on liVi stock but no definite action has yet been taken by the railroad companies Robert II of the Commercial club IL resolution asking for of the restrictions and asked that a be to lay te matter before the of This aUto on conditIon of lie lIve stock industrY in the United States were made by the thirtyfour States anti Tue question of lousing arid lands Will cauro considerable favorable and ad Verne Those who lie project tear that lands may get into if they are leaned The Chicago terminal charges cat cattIe tIe Ps not likely tp cut as prominent a figure aa last year as a fair way of satisfactory The thIs morn tug laid on the table a letter and resO resOlution lution from Susan B Anthony bearin on Woman suffrage 19 estimated to be |