State and statesmanlike generosity by the Nation--that means
courage for the now fearful ranchman of the unfenced domain,
and the furnishing of a "clean bill of health" for our
products seeking a foreign market. Having evinced zeal in
doing justice, it can ask for justice--that the rights of our
meat-producers be respected under our

COMMERCIAL TREATIES.

Commerce means a mutual exchange, and having performed our
home duty will be in no mood to tolerate a whim or a caprice.
Non-intercourse has been proposed in Congress. That may be a
final resort when a conference, practical discussion, and
even arbitration have failed. A graver subject measured by
dollars may yet engage the statesman diplomat than the Geneva
arbitration, and we shall have no fair status in discussion
or arbitration until our meat and cattle are made healthy by
prevention and the best sanitary laws known to civilized
countries.

THE TIME IS AUSPICIOUS.

Cattle-raising as an attractive and profitable vocation is
now exciting a deep interest. A lull in politics forbids the
wants of our agriculturists, numbering 60 per cent of the
population, being waived out of notice and their voiced
demands drowned by partisan clamor. The treasury has hundreds
of millions in its vaults and a fraction of 1 per cent of our
surplus will only be required, under a just disbursement, to
isolate and destroy the diseases which fetter our commerce