Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-10
The War Against Slaughtered Meat,

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The War Against Slaughtered Meat.
The slaughtered meat industry is
peculiarly Western institution. Chi
cago, Kansas City, Fort Worth and
Victoria are places that may he called |
centers of the industry. Lest some
one SHOULD ask why Cincinnati, APP
propriately dubbed "Porkopolis," is
left out of our list, we should here
state that we are speaking of fresh |
meats, especially beef and mutton,
which are shipped to consumers in re-
frigerator ears, and sold and used in
their fresh condition, instead of sailed. |
The innovation has found great favor |
with the beef.eating public, and
wherever these industries have been
planted, their outputs have never been
at loss to find markets, furnis hing II
demand as steady aud even stronger
than the supply. The secret of this
is that the meat reaches the consumer
i'm good condition-fresh, sweet, ETC.,
and because it can be sold at figures
that will enable the average consumer
to put Il steak or roast on his table
every day in the year. The only OBJ
stacle it encounters is in the opposition
of the abattoir butchers and the ship
pers of live cattle. Both of these in
terests say that the slaughtered meat
interferes with their business. The
shippers of live stock have thus fur
held their own in the competition, by
inducing the railroads to give rates
which will enable carload of live
stock to be- sent anywhere in the coun-
try as cheap rs u carload of slaugh-
tered beef. But the abattoir butchers
in many localities are raising hue
and cry that ia ms ridiculous as it is UNI
just. In New York they are endeav-
, 0ring to hedge in and protect their
peculiar industry by the passage of
municipal regulations requiring all
: fresh meats offered for sale in that city
to be slaughtered under the direction
{ aud supervision of the board of health.
Z" Ii this Is successful, Of course its effect
20 will be to drive the slaughtered beet
VI away from New York; competition
~ will be out OF the question. II is to he
~ doubted, however, If the slaughter
VI house ring In the metropolis can carry
: their point. Fortunately for the PEG
y pie who want good and reasonably
cheap beef, the press of the great city
AZ has come TO the rescue and is ventilat
~ ing the absurdity of the charges mad,
=, -, by the abattoir's men against the des(
- meat shipped there. The papers show
o. that the quarters of beef and mutton
W reach Gotham in far better condition
~ than bullock or sheep brought ther,
'' alive; that the refrigerated meat /
healthy, pure and Seet, and that tn
Z" people are satisfied with and want il
90 The New York San, not much of
- free-trader on general principles, is 70
the fullest and fairest competition il
this matter of "a meat supply for tn
y more than u million mouths In ii
= city. 1t tells the people in plain term.
ih'Nt IShtlng ngllnl
er benificeni laws Of trade aud against the pul
Ell lie Interest The pretence that they are nc
ed Ing In behalf OF the public heal IN 1, all hun
-, bug. They are working for their own poke
." and 10 crush IA fair competition which great
re- benefits me consumer. They are trying
as stop movement which Is OF the greatest n,
,.t vantage TO the consumers Of this city, m
check revolution In trade which Is destlne
vi To DO Of increasing benefit In keeping dow
ne and eluallzing prices. II they had thci.' wa,
M, the time might come when the poor OF Ne
ala York, like the poor OF some European couI
tries, would count themselves fortunate
w. they got meat once or twice n week.
ere We suppose the opposition In Ne
iat York will eliminate about rs IA silnil.
Is movement did in New Orleans. I'll
ne abattoir's men there fought the refri,
ne orator beef sent to the Crescent cit
~. from Texas with vigor worthy bett,
Oh cause. But IL was Of no use; the ne
vi pie ate Of the meat and pronounced
m good; and what was of equal impo
'es lance it was cheaper than the outp,
nr' of the New Orleans shambles.
lhe could not be driven out and is hel
us now TO stay. The Sun and its col
N"i oorers In New York will likely be all
pe TO head of the abattoir ring there.
'he they do not, the consumers In Ne
'nu York will be the greatest sufferer
'nu me reirigeratipg industry has no. v
cru reached such proportions that its or
''n ducts are a drag ON the market. III
meat which Is denied admission
',o- New York will find PURCHASERS som
wv where else. But II is Just as well +,
si'' siaughter.house rings in New 70,
,@' and other large cities TO know In
oos they cannot crush out this We,te,
~ ana Texas industry. It's advantage
uer as " principle of domestic econom
Anu are 100 many. Year by year the All
u ment VI live cattle to centers Of non
res lation VIII grow less and less. rhe !
UNI irigerator car will take the place of n
The stock car. The intervention OF midd;
are men Will be measurably dIsnens,