Litchfield enquirer., 1873-10-09
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 Two years ago q1its nnmber of the respectable citizens of the Hub" whose stomachs rev0lted at the idea of holding railroad milk, 1" formed themselves into corporate association for the purpose of controlling the delivery of pure milk in Boston and vicinity. The Consumers Protective Association has inst issued Q report covering the operations of the pure milk experiment. last year, or up to Aug gust l. The story is pathetic: and thrill ling one, and shows how much wickedness there is in this world. Reform in the milk business is . stupendous andlprob oblematical subject for contemplation. The Boston milk business, as earned on by the old monopoly, is bigger aggression than all the evils complained of by the Western farmers rolled into one. The ''milk king" overshadows the railroad king" in pow CT and bitterness. The t'heathen- Chinee" pecuiarities of the Boston milk (and wa ter) trade would put to blush the most dis honest vender of the Orange County fluid. In the first place agents were employed to canvass certain streets to obtain the sig natures of those agreeing to purchase milk from the Association. Some of these can- vassers were treacherous. Those persons opposing the movement resorted to every artitice; first, to prevent the Association from getting its rolling stock, cans, milk, and faithful employees, they made ''cor- ner' on milk-cans, buying up all that were on sale, and agreeing to bny all that the manufacturers of these specialities could make until three days after April l, the time agreed upon to start the delivery of pure milk. Contracts were made with manufacturers of tinware not previously making cans as a speciality, but their workman were bribed away from them, so that they were helpless to fill all these or ders and the Association was short of several thousands cans necessary for the start, but by searching New York firm was found, not known to milkmeD, who had just star ted making milk-cans by 8 new process, and by inducements to work day and night the Association was enabled to procure the required supply. But the manufac- tory for mllk-cans bungs, or shoppers, was owned by milk-contractor, and some of these cans were received so late on Sun- day, the last working day before April l, that 1t was late in the evening before this difficulty, by special outside work, was re- medled, and then no teamster was found who could be tempted by money to take a load of cans twenty miles to Concord. Finally, the coachman of one of those in- terested Fin this movement volunteered. and started on the trip just at midnight, in violent snow-storm. He returned to Boston, with his cans filled with milk, in time for the early start, Monday morning, April l. On Saturday smoning it was reported that certain farmers in the vicin- ity of Concord, with whom the agent of this Association had contracted for milk, had, under ''peculiar" pressure, just agreed with a sharp milk contractor to sell him their milk; and it was intended no word should reach Boston of this agreement, but that the Association should find itself short over one thousand quarts of milk Monday morning. But the special wagon trip of over forty miles routed this flank movement, and all vas serene for the time
 But another unforeseen obstacle soon of nearly half the drivers end , nelpsr5s, peri on the appointed day in spite of the at- tempt to prevent the delivery of the wag- ons contracted for. This opposition has been continued, and every device has been resorted to since April 1, 1872, to com pSpmlse the quality of the milk delivered by the Association drivers, to interrupt it's regular delivery, and to cause damage to the Association, through loss of cans, souring of milk, irregularities" of it's em- ployes, &c. Among other things, we are also told that the s'old milkmen'' are a set of thieves. About 8, 800 milk cans have been stolen, and in many cases when full of milk, largely through the contrivance of s'pecuiar" influences. A trick" re- corded on the part of faithless. employees has been that of allowing their confeder- ates, the old milkists, to deliver the As sociation's milk, giving him list of the Association subscribers, and thus a large number have afterwards received and paid for milk delivered by the old miIkist, who finally reports that the Association has stopped or sold out this route, and thus he'has retained the stolen trade, milk, customer, and all, and the Association temporarily got the discredit for deliver ing the skim-milk in such cases obtained by exchange with the old milkist.i
 Another phase of the attempt to deprive the Bostonese of the pure article is devel- oped in the following expose of the mon- Opolys doings. The milk depots, where milk was kept, have been entered at night and the milk soured the stables where the wagons have been kept have been broken into, and some part of the wagon broken, or some portion of the running part stolen attachments have been served and sheriffs keepers put in asi legal cus- todians of horses and wagoFs, late in the evening, or even while on the route, for real or imaginary debts against the mere drivers or employees of the Association, so that the team could not be legally re- pleyined in time to run on it's route for one or two days Horses, we'll at night, have been found so lame that they could not be used at the time of starting the wagons at three to half-past three A. M, and several horses have mysteriously died. Some employees have confessed to confed- ates that they have driven horses hard and then left them standing on cold-wind cor ners. g5t s5 5. 5n'TlBUH Ffs
 The amount paid annually by consumers in Boston for the fluid called milk sums up to about $4 ,OOO, 900, of which $3, ,4OO,- 900 is for milk, and say $500, 900 is for water additions. Thus all can readily in- fer what tremendous hydraulic green
 back power the Consumers Protective Association has had to contend against. In England certain. classes of civil Of-
 fcers were not allowed to vote. But in
 this country nothing could be so unwise
 as to stigmatize by Acknowledgement any
 agent of the government. On the other hand, nothing can be more unjust than to give them greater political power than the
 rest of the community Yet this is what the present system does; and until the