Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-12-06
THEY DON'T WANT OUR BEEF.
Pennsylvania Butchers Seeking Legislation to
Protect Their Trade.


Special intelligence has Just coms
from Philadelphia to the effect that
thecattle raisers and butchers through
out Pennsylvania are maturing plans
to exclude Chicago dressed beef iron
the markets ofthat state. The move
ment has sprung from the manifest
belief that the interests OF the loca
butches there are impaired 10y tn,
great influx of beef from such concerns
us those of Armour, swift Hammond
Nelson. and Morris n Son. What il
aimed ai is local projections. and ioi
the purpose oi securing this it Is tn,
design oi the Butchers Union ana
gran.ers' organizations to urge tn,
passage oi n law requiring the loca
inspect ION ofall beet on he hoof beior,
the cattle arc slaughtered. Whether
or not the movement lS wcll-alvi>ed
and calculated To suhscrVe anythinl
further than u narrow and selfish ptIr
pose II "a question. SAID T.. j Martyr
of the firm of J.. -. Armour Il 90. N,-
ter,lay:
Tins j. but he initial step oi u
widely extended movement that was
projected over "a year ago. There IL Ia
he u convention IN ~ l.oui~ on tn,
10Th inst, in which Chicago beef Will
doubt less bc scored in such way that
the people of large credulity will think
II tit ior little elise han dog feed. Per
sonally-and think express Mr..
Armotir~ views also think. TN.
movement u great mistake. The pro
lection which the local butchers in
Pennsylvania and the other states
cooperating with it wish to secure
can only be had M the expense oi
at her and far more important com
mrrcial interests. The great beef busi-
ness of Chicago is the direct and nee
e-Sary ont growth of the development
of western ranches. We furnish an
let Tor tn" products of whole see
tions aud townships out west which
for climatic and other reason, are
necessarily given up To StorkraiSing
II IL the vast development of the west
ern cattle industry that has given
I hcaco'~ beef business it, great impt-
tu,: and lei congress take legislative
steps that would kill The beef trade oi
lhis CITY aud Nnn will .ls: Whit Il blow
ii will prove 20 the great stock-rai-inp
states oi the union. Now Chicago
ships at least 2.5OO,OOO pounds oi
dressed beef per day, which j. a. clean
fresh, and pure as carciulne~s and
honesty can make it. We export to
Europe AT least 6OO,OOO head OF
cattle per year. Ii law should cut OFF
this trade in dcierence to the sup
posed interests OF the butchers down
east the western ranchman's cattle
would die on his hands for want OF n
market, since it is scarcely prestmable
that the cath We now kill here would
be sent in driblets over the states.
That Is not designed in the movement
or the Butchers union would lack
supporters.
You see, the grangers support the
Butchers union because they are as
strei that there will be a better mar
ket and hence better prices for local
cattle when Chicago has to chew it,
own beef. The gransers are but tools
in the hands of n union which. when
its purpose l. accomplished. will cut
prices on cattle as arbitrarily as the
typical monopoly does. doubt ii the
Butchers union has stopped to con
slider the iar-reaching consequences OF
its action or the farmers what uncer-
tain and probably treacherou> friends
they are aiding