Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-06-22
BEEF PANIC.

DBBr PANIC.
what IL TO be done for the Meat Market :
Really beef aud mutton threaten US with n
paeis quite - serious o. the yellow fever 81
eholefs Ones butchers bill l. daily in
srssang Ito frightful proportions. aud thcr,
y ~ Immediate prospect for relief We re
bel agaiast statutory provisions prescribing
what We shail eat or drink. but submit ~
silsnce 10 such oppressive advances in ii.
price u animal Hood - must necessarily
force hs6 the community into Vegetarian
is0. Roasting beef Is from II Ia IS cents
pound, and steaks from - Ia "a cents. FOR
mutton We pay u cent per pound aud
lamb brings about the same price. lfpcr
chance our hearts sre gladdened and hope
u relief revived under = decline ii penny
o. two " day, We have learned by sad ga
perisnce thst tomorrow will cary price,
Nd higher than ever There seems To be u"
limit 70 the upward tendency. When We
paid eight cents for good beef We thought
Il hard 10 be compelled to add penny
Lvt % soon - We got used 10 the sd,anc.
end ceased grulnbiing, another and another
turn were given to the screw. This is III.
process BY which We have reached the pre-
sent high prices. and where il is to end
short Of an abandonment Of feshy diet, who
ssa tell ~ T. Times.
REMARKS Such is the commence
ment Of . long editorial in the n. Y
Times Of the 18th in which the writer
shsws . greater amount Of ignorance
respecting the causes Of the scarcity Of
beef and the consequent high prices,
than Metropolitan journal ought t.
exhibit. The Times says that "specu-
lation unqucstionably hss.aided in no
slight degree 70 enhance the cost Oh
these neccssxries Of life" and it further
adds with special emphasis that yves
tern speculations in lands have proved
more inviting to those who ought t.
b cattle raisers, than the rearing q
live stock. Somehow the entire o.
Eastern journaldom have lately REFER
Cd every disturbance Of social, politlca
and commercial equilibrium to til.
"land and loan fever" Of the Wesi
These journals vainly labor to bar thu
highways Of emigration, by erecting pa
per hobgoblins, that will put an end t.
the exodus which threatens to depopu
late the East. We can inform the New
York Times that all its foolish croak
ing about the Western high rates o
interest aud the raging land fever
shows an amount Of stupidity not gen
orally found in journal claiming TIL
position Of q leading national news
paper. All who know anything of low
and Illinois, know that they actual,
supply the great Eastern Cities witt
four-fifths of the beef and pork consr
med there. But the past winter hs
been 90 severe and 30 protracted, thu
oil sorts Of feed for stock was cxhaus
Ell before Spring supplied grass, an
cattle were put upon short allowanc
and are now too poor fer the drov'
and butcher. Thousands and tens
tbous; nds Of cattle in Iowa and Ill
nois, which were last fall intended IL
beef, are too poor for the market, c
account Of scarcity Of feed. The usu'
supply Of beef from Iowa and lll'no'
is thus cut off not because their al
fewer cattle, but because there are few
or fat cattle. The Times has shut II
eyes to the notorious fact OF the sever
ity Of last winter, and the poverty {
every species Of Stock, and their cor
seouent unfitness for the butchers stal
In many districts Of this State, SO gres
was the scarcity Of feed, that wheat wa
freely fed to stock to prevent starv'
ton. II the writers who croak SO niue
against the West had common homes
ty, they would refer events to their res
causes, and not 80 persistently labor I
create the impression that the "ter.'i'
land mania" is the destroyer OF tn
social equilibrium everywhere, an
that crash is impending.
We find no difficulty in obtaining
fair supply Of good beef for home cor
sumption, and if the protracted winte
has been the means Of cutting of tn
New York supply. we can only urg
the Times to change its tune, an
encourage = larger emigration from tn
East to the West Of class who will
become cattle raiscrr, tor the especia
benefit of the over crowded and sin
polluted city Of New York.