, 1866-10-31

in the commission men being sold out body
and boots. We hope that better counsel aud
crol reason will prevail. go that the co1nmls-
sion men may be brought to see the position
they are placed in.
The following live stock commission men
havs refused to join the ..tring,'' and are
willing to Eive all information they may pos.
9ces: Jones, ,-Ho :gh Co., Kenan $ Finlay,
some others, and as soon ns. we shall obtain
theiF names VIC will make them known TO
the public.
tFiom the Chicago Timee. Eai.ori.l, Oct. ao.1
bos lne nem" mcs1 rreposts.oua performance which
the attempt BY the livestock commission
men. Of Chicago to suppress all information
concerning the state Of our livestock market.
and thus to compel producers to sell their
slock n !gnoIance o. the prices which rule
men first set upon this novel enterprise, and
declined to communicate prices 10 our re-
portere, VIC were of the impression that the
movement would break dowh of its own
,Meleh1 IN gay OF two, 80 absurd and mis-
Judged was it !; but 1t seems that, after week
Or ten days experience, the purpose actually
Ia, not to abandon 1t, bnt to persist in it,
we invite all stock producers who depend
nPon the Chicago market to unite with Us In
breaking down this unjust and mischicvous
simple design is to make the producers stjll
more tributary to the commission men than
they have heretofore been, and thereby
double the already enormous profits Of the
Our commercial columns inform the public
from day to day Of whom this combination
IS composed. 1t Is composed Of a class Of
dealers who are OF no real use to the pro-
ducers. 1t Is composed Of 1nldlle.mcn, in
close peeuniarr relations with country buy
ers, whose Interest Is to detraud both the
producer and the purchaser; aud this they
have boldly undertaken to dol They arc,
We say, Of no real use to the producers. and
tie latter may dispense with them b; bring
Ing their own stock to market and them
selves selling It.
We understand that this combination have
sent private circulars into the country, say
ing that the management Of the Chicago
newspapers care nothing for the action Of
the coiEmissiou-nen III withholdingsprices
that It is the reporters who arc ma4F. III
the disturbance, aud this because they. lat8
hitherto made money By inserting names and
prices and shading the market. whicl. re-
source Is now cut OF, We challenge any
man to say Tint the Times reporters have
ever received money from any commission
man Or other dealer, for any. purpose what
ever. The Times does care for the action Of
the commission men, and 1t will exert all
Its power to break dowp their combination
Md compel them TO deal honestly with pro-
duccIs.
How their action Is REGARDED in the great
following from the Springfield Rtyi.s5r:
by our special live stock reports of Tues
day morning, our readers who buv or sell
cattle and hogs, will notice that the dealers
IN Chicago have formed combination to
prevent reporters from knowing the sales
and prices there. Those men defend their
action on the ground that If fnrmers know
the Chicago prices, they will insist on a
price from the agent or drorer based on the
lineage figures, aud that droyers will know
when 10 ship stock there and when to hold
1t. We sec no force In either Of these
excuses. They simply amount to state
ment that the Chicago dealers desire 10 pre-
vent any information being published that
Will prevent them from Keeping entire control
OF the market. This course, If fol-
lowed mp for aftcon days, will shut Oft
tue supply Of cattle from Chicago altogether,
and the curb-stone brokers that attempt to
ring the cattle trade Of Illinois aud other
Western States, may understand 1t SO, There
arc other and better markets for stock than
Chicago. even in tie best Of times, for the
town is infested with gang OF cut-tllroats
in every branch of business, who would rob
man for dc(accd postage stamp, and now,
il they try tsdo the cattle business on the
mock auction plan, with closed doors, dro-
Hcrs had better keep away from them al
| toyetller.n
These reflections arc perfectly. lust, and
unless the management OF the Union Stock
| Yards desire that their place shall become
notorious only as the stamping ground Of
dtsrcputable dealers, they will take imme.
dute measures to correct the intolcrublc
abuse Of which we complain.