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Germany and several other European countries have already shut 

 out our canned meats and seriously hampered the free importation of 

 our cattle and dressed meats. They have a measure now before the 

 Reichstag to exclude American wheat, which would seriously touch 

 the hearts and purses of farmers of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho, the Dakotas, and California. And as they 

 are gradually shutting out one of our great industries after the other, 

 can our butter-producing people expect to escape for very long '4 

 Fights between competing industries are not desirable at this time, 

 but rather a united people, for in union there is strength, and it will 

 take, within the next few years, the united efforts of the producing 

 portion of this most wonderfully productive country to combat the 

 jealous and selfish interests of the less favored nations on the globe. 

 Let us be fair and just to one another, and be the better prepared to 

 combat a common enemy. 



Mr. Chairman, I just wish to file the resolutions and the memorial 

 of the Kansas City Live-Stock Exchange, of which I am a represent- 

 ative. 



THE KANSAS CITY LIVE-STOCK EXCHANGE, 



Kansas City, Mo. , February 8, 1900. 



The following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted 

 by the board of directors of the Kansas City Live-Stock Exchange at 

 a regular meeting held February 5, 1900: 



" Whereas certain bills have been introduced in the House of Rep- 

 resentatives of the United States looking for the enactment of a law, 

 by way of taxation, whereby the manufacture, sale, importation, and 

 exportation of oleomargarine will be ruined; and 



i Whereas such bills, if passed and allowed to become laws, will 

 build up one industry at the expense of tearing down and ruining 

 another, the logical effect of which will, be the granting of a monopoly 

 to the industry sought to be benefited; and 



14 Whereas the destruction of the oleomargarine industry will reduce 

 the value of cattle and hogs to the farmers and raisers thereof, as well 

 as work a hardship upon millions of poor people who are unable to 

 pay the fancy prices asked for butter: Therefore, be it 



Itwolved, That the Kansas City Live-Stock Exchange, of Kansas 

 City, Mo., earnestly protest against the enactment of the law pro- 

 posed relating to oleomargarine; and be it further 



Besolyed, That the board of directors of this exchange be requested 

 to memorialize the Congress of the United States against the passage of 

 a law or laws inimical to the live-stock industry, and that a copy 

 of these resolutions be sent to the honorable the Senate and the House 

 of Representatives of the United States." 

 Respectfully, yours, 



W. S. HANNAH, President. 



We have addressed the following to the honorable the Senate and 

 House of Representatives of the United States: 



"The Kansas City Live-Stock Exchange, located at Kansas City, Mo., 

 respectfully represents that it is an association composed of raisers, 

 owners, and buyers and sellers of live stock, whose interests extend to 

 and cover a great portion of the West and Southwest of the United 

 States, and whose business, as represented by the individual members 



