New-York tribune., 1886-02-24
THE WAX on DRESSED BEEF.
ARMoURs REPLY TO COMMISSIONER FINK.
cuAGGIAG SECRET MtAsUR, IN THE INTEREST or
me SOCK YARDS.

CuAGGING SECRET MtAsUR, IN THE INTEREST or
me SOCK YARDS
CHICAGO, Feb. 23-ln an open letter gwen
ont tns AFTERNOON, signed by Armour Co.. replying 10
certain statements made 10y Mr. Fink regarding the re-
cent advance In dressed the East the firm
says:
Mr. Fink "a the Commissioner of the trunk line pool
an as-OcI itIOn Of owning aud contr Iling all
the hurs OF RAILWAY transportation from the west 10 Tue
Est and /. purpos. Is prrvrnt couprt ion and
emiurcr the fuest extent the od"us dOcirue Ot the
TSs Irie viii bear" Mr. FmE !, sercei by the rep
rcsendtives nf trunk nrs To administer the ahair'
pert to accomplish ils purposes A. such Commissioner
he has the power nix es. and As arbitrator hlS
ro d. PROPORTION ol traffic He vested with poa
enforce uis paudltrs He is the dc aor Of common
carriers and the traffic Of tn Nation Is subject To hn
The letter then quotes from NJ Fink:
1.-THE Principe upon which the relative rates have
determined la that the cost OF transportation
the whether the cattle slaughtered In Chicago
slaught red IN New-fOrk"
Nj. Armour then says:
This Is complete change OF base from the Commits.
sionrrs former po,iou. While compelled nominaly to
aba ndou tue position taken OJ him ia 1888 lac has hIed
"a rate ssed bect which -crinnatcs more against
that Industry than rativr rates estahshed since
1873. when the railroads nrs ad"pied we rtin.ipe
teuable. The dressed leef since 1878 have
beeu mrs So tnen 90 and lnen IS per than
i've stocK A. and now by this the Conlnssi"ucr
liked them at 70 23 per ornt over I'VE STOCK no"
does this accord with the Commissioners prOtestati"n
Of neutrality ana his statement that the cost
OF transp sporting the hill shall be- the same
whether cattle slaughtered III CHICAGO OF New-lork
Let the public istand that The change ot prncl
pie" announced ny Mr.. Fink has not caused MIN To
abandon mis- purpose discruuna 4nst tue dressed
beef industry aud to swell the dyidrndS Of the stock
yard and companies. Mr. Funk w0ulh nave the
pnbic believe that under his new "prncplr when the
cattle shipper pay 35 cents his live cal ie gross
weight he really pays 6J cents hu ldred on the net
produce of those cattle the form If beef AT New-Iork
Let Is II his bs Forty thousand pounds OF i've
cattle 80 cents quil Sli Live cattle yield an
OF 81 per dressed beef Flity seven per
orut 10000 "a ,alS $500 pounds Sl4O freight On
% 800 pounds net produce gives a rate OF oI 10
cents "A nundred pbund> from Cbifago 10 New
York. but the hides. tsilOw. b0ofs. heads aDd
ohl also brought through with the net beef Tor
Rl4O. The 1--we has lau ed them al New
YORK free. The dresred-U"ef shipper sauxhlers at
Chicago and his product % 800 pounds. to
still horns hides, iallow, heads hools ana OH ~
which also W East and upon which he must pay inll
tariff 80 to 35 cents hundred 1hs, theh, IL inc
way Mr. Fnk's principle works. He proposes TO
carry whole for the livestock man Tor the same
money he charges the dGessrdDee! shipper for half
steer. the net dressed beef aud further invites the
dresse se-I sipprr To forward tho remaining nail OF
his steer al tarln rates
| ss n method Of defea ing monopoe. Inc oh'y
onopoy connected with the business - the carrying on
tr stern cities. which Is done by the
railroads which Mr. FINK rrpresents .
The ngeni scbeme Ia force dressed beef IRON tue
and Is 10 make secret cuts or rebates TO
cattle shippers while protesting 10 MAINTAIN the agreed
Mr. Fink attempts to show that the increased rate
makes differ E the price paid by the Eastern
consumer II dressed bef industry IL cripp o Nv the
40 ions OF the Railways the price OF brof Ia Nrw-l"rK
Will ady Anot the eXturtOnate price HrmaDdel ana
ubtan-d when the consumer was 81 tie mercy OF the
| stock yard AMI aDattoir ring.
| when Mr. Fink decides that rates on live STOCK ana
dressed beef shall without reference To soek-
dlvIdsnds abattOr pronis. we VIII DrR 10 Dc
hin the exponent OF methods Tor perprtuaing
stock yard and aDatt hr cbin,in atoms, u rhSe the
price Of food and the would-be e1rcntlonrr OF tne
dressed industry. which has che"pentd food I" the
laed cattle raising on The prafles