Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-05


charge the Investigation OF the beet trade,
snd Of the same Tune to confer together
10 devise measures which shall result in
e-estAoiishing competition in the pur-
chsse and sale CT Detf cattle in the mat
kets oil the United Safes; thus securing
10 both producers snd customers pr.ces
based on The lsws OF supply and demand.
Also to reco nmepd such sanitary meas
uIes in the handling OF our beef supply
as will rsise the product abovs the Gus
pici0n Of d'seEse. The obi acs sought to
DE accomplished by the proposal con-
ference Of CaGtIemen and butchers are In
every way to De commended, and we feel
it our duty to urge the butchers Of tbe
great southwest to attend ills meeting
for the purpose Ct siding by ell possible
means the success Of the measures Wncb
will be there inauguratet, for the bench
not only Of the butchers aud cattle rsls-
ers Ct the country, but in the interest O.
puolic health and the welfare OF every
man, woman and child in the United
States. Living as we do in sectlol
which is noted throughout the world g.
i cattle country. which markets hundreds
W
| haves watched with surprise the incre.s
| OF shipments TO cur principal towns aro
cities from the packeriss of the Caicsg0
beef syndicate OF ice-box meat, taken
from cattle shipped on hoof from our
ranges to be returned in this unpSl.tsble
and unwholesome form for the consump
ton of our people. l. is certainly a mat.
ter Of surprise that cattle should ps
I II; .Ynfx>
miles to be slaughtered and their mest
returned fer consumption 20 the very
| peop.e who had sent them to msrket
The charge OF double freigh,s accIuins
! by this process is certainly against public
interest, snd could not be msintsineo
| were 1t not for the fact ths. the public
are Largely ignorant Of the uawholesom Z
character Of the meat thus Pre- fsrsd them
Tor food. IL is ) well known fact tha'
the tendelloins which are largely shipped
from these packeries TO our hotels
and restaurants are taken from ole
COWS sad bulis, the NEST Of winch our
| people would NOT knowingly eat. These
cattle, which are often diseased snd are
always the scum Of the markets, are
slaughtered by the thousands and the
tenderloins stripped, out-s.scked in i'm
mense piles with lsyers Of ice, which pre-
vents the snimsl heat from passing CT in
8 natural way, thus retaining in the meal
to 8 great extent the worn out tissues Of
the animal, which hasten decomposition
and render the meat unit for humsn
food. The immense power snd capital
of the Chicsgo beef syndicate enables
them 20 force from the railroads cut rates
of freight from Chicsgo to the east for
such remsining portions Of the produc,
OF this scsllaNsg class Of cattle, as they
DO not ship back to the country from
which the cattle originated as to enable
them to cell this unwholesome meat at
prices st which we cannot compete with
the meat taken from the fat snd healthy
animals we handle. This unnatural and
artificial state of Affairs will, II not
checked, drive Us on: Of business and
place for sll time the entire meat business
of the United States under the complete
control of men who have VIGOROUSLY &C.
q1ired theiri millions, by selling edulter-
ated lsrt, by cornering food products and
BY forcing from railroads rebates or cut
rates. In short, the meat syndicate
seems to be run for the sole purpose OF
making money, regardless Of public in
terest, public health or snY Of the rules
OF action which should control CONNER
cisl methods in the interest Of the publii
We of the southwest have not yet SO
seriously felt the feet OF the operation
of the methods of the beef combine -
have our brethren OF the north and east,
but we are beginning to feel the coils OF
the serpent tightening about Us, and il
we do not at once srouse to action and
strange the monster, we will soon be
)crushed out OF existence. At Akron,
Onio, ana other points in the north,
where the butchers refused 10 purchase
cattle products from the Chicsgo beef
combine the syndicate established retail
markets and sold NEST at less than cost
until the butchers were ruined, when
they increased prices to the CONSUMERS
We msy expect these dsmnsble methods
to be repeated in the southwest II we dc
not srise in our might and assist GU.
brethren throughout the country who will
be gathered together in St. Louis, No
vember 20, for the purpose of breaking
up the most infamous monopoly Ct mod.
ern times. ROBINSON Bros.
DEWITT G. KEMPKR,
: G. S MILLER,
81. HARDCAs1LK,
CHAs. SCAoBER & Sons,
Butchers COMMITTEES
shipped From oolorodo. g 81
Special to the Gazette. ~
COLORADO, TEX, Oct. ii. ND,l,
shipped fourteen car loads Of lie Z