and repress home enterprise.

A full and able convention at Washington is assured by the
responsive letters received. The State of Iowa will make her
requests to Congress by fine-stock meeting and other
associations, as becomes the State with $100,000,000 invested
in domestic animals.

Who can be indifferent in the face of our great perils, and
recounting the losses by foreign restrictions and inhibition?
We are emphatically a Nation of beef-eaters, and by the
extent of our domain and healthful climate are justly
entitled to the honored designation of the first producer
among civilized nations.

It is the question of healthful food for the masses, of
profitable tonnage for the railways, and of deep concern in
cultivating fraternal relations abroad, not less than a
question for the political economist in maintaining a good
trade balance-sheet. If we can impress our Congressional
delegations with the necessity of early and decisive
legislation, we shall have accomplished a noble work and have
earned the warm commendation of millions of citizens whose
interests have been neglected and whose vocation and property
have been imperiled.

For the committee by request of the Chicago Convention.

J.B. GRINNELL.