The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-06-07
Stock and Range.

LbNdN viz AOA4OUlho N<NhAO AONNH - O'-'
speeches made in the United States
Senate on the dressed beef monop-
oily at Chicago:
But | have great faith that when
public opinion has been thorough
Iv aroused, and when producer and
consumer are made to see that these
men, who have nothing to do with
production, and are only the agen-
cies by which the cattle are taken
from the producer and turned into
the hands of the consumer, have
robbed both sides alike, condition
of things will result which will
ameliorate the present situation.
For that reason | am in favor Of
this resolution.-Senator Plumb in
Senate Debate.
In this combination not only the
butchers and shippers, but the rail-
roads have been united, because, Of
course, the railroads saw in that one
of the ways whereby they could
maintain high prices of beef to the
consumer. There has been, con-
sciously or unconsciously, directly
or indirectly, formally or inform
ally, a combination between not
only these great cattle firms Of
which 1 have spoken, but all the
railroads and all the other agencies
which have to do with the handling
of cattle, with the shipping thereof,
from the time they leave the range
until they finally go to the table of
the consumer-Senator Cullom in
the Senate Debate
If it so be that this entire profit
Of $50 head is received by these
great packers that not only kill and
pack and can, but who also in all
the beef markets Of this country
maintain not only wholesale, but
retail establishments, and if this en-
tire profit of $50 per head goes to
them, it makes the enormous sum
of $54,642,210 as divisible profits
for these five concerns for the year
1887, rather a snug sum for their
profit l should think when one con-
siders their Observation-Disclosures
Manderson in Senate Debate.
1 hold in my hand an absolutely
and positively correct report of the
sales in the Chicago market, the
greatest cattle market in the world,
showing how the price of cattle has
gone down steadily to the producer,
Notwithstanding the fact, which
goes without saying, that the pop
ulation of the country is increasing
in a ratio hitherto unknown in the
history of nations. Now, Mr.. Pres
ident, what is the cause of this de-
cline? I have alluded to the in
crease in population; l have alluded
to the decrease in the number of
cattle. 1t is not overproduction.
There must be some artificial rea-
son for this terrible loss in the cat
tie interest in the United States,
and that is the principal point to
which propose to direct my re-
marks and the attention of the
committee, which have asked may
be created under this resolution
Senator Vest in Senate Debate.
They not only combine, as has
been said here, in fixing the price
of cattle that they buy in the mar
ket, but they combine to fix the
price at which the cattle shall be
sold in the state in which they put
them on the market, and they do
that bv parcelling out the territory
among themselves, one great dealer
taking one section of country, an
other another, and so on, upon an
agreement that there shall be no
competition by any of his fellows
within the territory thus allotted to
him. Thus it is while they buy at
the lowest price, at price that is
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