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There was a man peddling out in the country down south one day, 

 and he leaned up against the fence and called to a farmer who was 

 working in the field to come up. The farmer came up, and the peddler 

 said: "I have some American salve that I would like to sell you — a 

 splendid article — wonderful power. You see that dog that you have over 

 there? If that dog should happen to get his tail cut off some time, you 

 could just rub a little bit of this salve on the tail where the dog came 

 off, and on the dog where the tail came off, and the two would grow to- 

 gether all right." "Oh," said the farmer, "that ain't nothin'. You see 

 that other dog over there? One time I took that dog to the city and a 

 street car ran over his tail, and I picked up the dog and the little tail 

 and took them home, and I rubbed a little home-made salve on the tail 

 where the dog came off, and on the dog where the tail came off, and a 

 new dog grew out on the tail and a new tail grew out on the dog, and 

 I had two dogs; and before I got out of town they arrested me for retail- 

 ing dogs w^ithout a license." If the railroads w^ere to rub some of that 

 salve on me, maybe that would help out! 



The conventicn thereupon adjourned to 1 :30 p. m. 



Afternoon Session. 



]Mr. "Will Drury submitted to the members present the sugges- 

 tion that an arrangement might be made with the railroads by 

 which berth cars could be furnished stockmen from the ^Missouri 

 river to Chicago at the rate of 50 cents per hundred miles. The 

 sentiment of the members was practically unanimous in favor of 

 such an arrangement. 



The President: We will now listen to an address by Mr. T. W. 

 Tomlinson, secretary of the American National Live Stock As- 

 sociation, whose home is in Denver, Colorado. 



Mr. Tomlinson: Mr. President and Gentlemen — I will not tire you by 

 talking of the work of our national association, but will touch on some of 

 the important questions. One which is now confronting us and you is 

 the tariff question. You will recall that at the last session of congress, 

 the democrats, for political purposes only, passed what is called the 

 free list. That followed the failure of the Canadian reciprocity treaty, 

 which was to admit from Canada cattle and all grain products free, 

 and made a slight reduction in the duty on meats and flour. Our asso- 

 ciation opposed the Canadian reciprocity treaty more as a matter of 

 principle than on account of the effect it might have on live stock 

 values in this country. However, we then contended — and still contend 

 — that the free importation of cattle would have an appreciable effect 

 on live stock prices in this country. If you followed the discussion of 

 that matter closely in the papers, you will probably recall that the 

 proposers of that treaty — President Taft at the head of them — insisted 

 that live stock was higher in Canada than in the United States, anc, 



