Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-22
MANS Journalist, arrived At the Planters

mans JOURNALISM, arrived st the Planters
House yesterday loaded with information
On the food beef question for fhe reg.le-
ment CT the senatorial investigating CON.
mittee. Mr.. Warner is editor of the
Stock Grower, organ CT the Southwestern
cattle raising interest, secratery Of the
Cattle and Horse Growers Association
sHd OF the Nav Mexico Territorial Board
CT Cattle Ssnitarisns. He prophesies
lively times, both in the sessions of The
sen6torisI committee and those CT the
csttlemen's and butchers convention.
"Ihe crest dressed beef organization
trust or monopoly st Cnicsgo must be
ci5inteszated, ard It's power difused to
save the butcher class" declared Mr..
Warner. "This sanitary agitation is NO
pretease on tie part ct the butchers. Tie
beef buyers Of the country must be pisced
on IN tqusl footing by some means or the
whole cattle raising interest will 20 70
pieces. The Big Four IS they are call.
ed, claim tina. there has ceen q great
over production Of beet cattle. The fact
is, the production has fallen CT 60 per
cent in two years, through the shipment
OF cows and their withdrawal from breed
ing There are not by 100 600
SIS many beef cattle ready for
market to-day in New Mexico as
there were two years ago, and still
prices go down, and the value CT cur in .
Yestmenfs in cattle decreases daily. A
lot OF calves that New Mexico man paid
S25 apiece for two years $50 are now
worth only Sl2 50 apiece as f.. cattle,
and the DsXImum price for fat cattle is
aocuE SIS. Yet the people are paying as
much FOX oeet SIS they ever were. This
is the resQit OF the operations CT the beef
trust, which has driven al other pu1chEs-
eTs out CT tEe market, xrd Where there
|ers LEO big Uycrs tour CT fvs Yesyg
{ gp, tuare SFH low only 23ur. How did
they mapsgt?
"NeI, haIe wsg MAI with 100000
who sew chance 10 sell s3me cg1tls
down il b New York toTn, or farther
east, near Boston. as soon as he had
bought tcs ca.ria the dTessedrbeef mo
nC2Uly teLsgrsp2s It's agent IN that towc
CT locality 10 pus a supply Of dressed
beef into that town g little under Ire
market. The result was thet when the
'outsld6' buyel's beef GOT taere it WE.
lefS on his hAnGs st a big ICss, and he,
seeIrg HOW the thIng was done, tick coed
Gaze net 10 be c2uglg ShaG way again.
The beet monopoly owns iss refrigerator
csrs, runs them ever t5a railroads ct 8
mileage rate, Snd cen even uadsrssL Iocsl
butchers aud then make money, though
ususlig theiz only object is 20 drive cut
the local.
snow, I'll show you how they interfere
with transportation. They have ipfiur
eGced some roads so that they won't run
the palace stock cars, which get our cattle
into Pscifi; coast markets in good shape
rh!s is notably the case with the Southern
Pacific Road. Again, they shut of the
supply OF refrigerator cars. The E! Paso
people put up an $80,G00 Strengthening
plant OF the latest design snd equipment,
and 1t proved great relief TO the stock
raisers OF the vicinity, enabling them to
market theil beef in Californis. AS soon
IS the dressed beef monopoly found this
out they caueed the refrigerator cars to be
withheld. the SCENTS OF the refrigerator
CON p21i5s were CffeTsG $50 per month,
Or 5000 per year per csr, on yearly COM
t-sc!s, which is tWo-thirds tie first cost
CT the CATS. They promised and prom =.
lsed, but the cars EeVsr came, and the
Ell PAso plant Is idle to day. at Denver
packing plant Swas put up and lun
about six months, ct nice profit, sup
plying the home market, Lesdvine and
surrounding towns. Then Armour came
in with bi5 dressed beef a1d the est.b-
Nshmeat had 80 go TO the wall. These
ere some Of the evils the cattlemer and
butchers have 10 complain Of, and they
must Se corrected or The cattle Industry
Of the S0uthWest Will 90 10 mecca.