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OFFICE OF SKcRErARY BUTCHERS
NATIONAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION,
No. HOG ST. LOUIS AVENUE, ST
LOUIS, Mo, Nov. 16, 1885, To
Western Butchers: The great convention
CT CO tile rsisers, cattle feeders, butchers,
members Of municipal boards of health,
Western boards OF trade and bankers,
which will be held In the Exposition
building In st. Louis on November 20
will, with your aid, be 8 compile, Q success.
I have the pleasure Of Informing you
that the committee Of the United States
senate, which is charged with the duty OF
investigating the beef trade, will be II
session in st. Louis during our meeting,
and that the honorable senators, mem
bers OF this committee, are in accord with
US In their desire for the Inauguration
of measures which will prove Of benefit to
US az well Is to the cattle interests Of the
entire country.
I have advices from all over the West,
from Montana on the north, California on
tne west, ARR 1ne, Texas and New Mexico
on the sou.b, and all other states and ter
ritories, to the effect that the leading cat
tlemen Of that vast portion oil the country
will be present at our :grest convention
TO aid ps BY their counsel and Influence TO
sQgohplsh the results on which the pros
petty OF our business depends, and on
which we are dependant for the support
Of our wives and children. Mary of these
men have large wealth and are possessed
Of grest ability and national llfluepce
These men sre coming st great expense
and Inconvenience to themselves, thou
sands OF miles 10 attend our meeting, and
to i in hands with the butchers of toe
country in the fght in which we are now
engaged eg9inst the dressed beef monop-
oily, which is fast driving us TO ruin.
Many CT these men travel hundreds Of
miles across the plains from their ranches
bsfore taking the cars, and when We ere
confronted with spectacle of tbs ctxr-
'acisr, with sucd an example Of devotion
to principle and suth an earnest mani.
festation Of desire to aid US, Il behooves
as as butcherP, who hsvs so much al
stake in this fight, TO meet these
honorable men half way, grasp them by
the hand, and say to them, that we have
enlisted with them, that we have burned
our bridges behind us, sad ths. We have
raised the black fig against the monopo-
listg OF the country, tnst we ask no quar-
ter, that we will give none and tina. We
will stand By their side and thst we will
not be fund faltering In the front Of bat
tie.
II we are true to ourselves, true to our
manhood; il we will show by our acts
80 <a ho L. a
pendence u the honorable trade and thst
We are willing to do ouI part in tie great
struggle which is now taking place be-
tween the people OF the Tn ted States on
the enc hand and four or FIVE soulless
corporations on the other, success is as
sured to US
l have the pleasure Of informing you
tSas Ulcers Of the Farmers Alliance in
the United States, which organization
comprises hundreds Of thousands CT
farmers, are coming mRnfully to the
fronI5.caliipg On members of their order
o sustain US In this fight, and pledging
their cooperation Snd support towarcs
sec aring a,e, inspection laws which are
necessary to break up the power Of the
dressed beef syndicate.
Assurances have also been received
from Grange associations thst they Will
Join US in the life and death contest in
As3Sch we are engaged. Victory is within
.adH grasp. Il is fo1 the butchers Of the
EcoShtry, and more particularly of the
e&ies contiguous to St. Louis, to decide
IS to whether we are 10 &c successful or
86os.
Il you do not take enough interest in
the success Of cur ef)rts t. attend cur
meeting, and by your absence the noble
csttlemen OF the WIS., AID patriotic
farmers Of the central states, feel that we,
who IS butchers, are to 6a so largely
benefited By the success Of the meas
ures which will be insugurated b.
the st. L >uis meeting, are not vii Ing to
give few days time and spend s few
dollars to attend this meeting, then we
shall not deserve the benefits which the
caltlemen Of the country, the farmers Of
the nation and the meat consumers are
willing to accord to US, and in the days 10
come, when you are reduced to mere cut
ters ct MA, when you are become mere
1sge-workers, instead Of masters of an
hoL ossble trade, when Jour children that
you love instead OF beirg in comfortable
circumstances are also wsge workers aud
many OF them reduced TO penury Then
In that evil day esq you to eYonerste the
noble men Of tie West who sought to
serve you from all blame fox the poverty
and slavery which Will be your doom. L.
rests with you, snd with you alone to oes
eide your fate,
AS butchers, we must denonstrate to
the csttlemen OF the country shat we are
DESTROYS Of purchasing shsir cattle in
competitive markets az prices determined
bg the laws Of trade. The ca.tlemen are
our natural allies, and 1t is to our interest
that they should receive for their pro-
ducts prices that will prove renunerstive
20 them. Under natural conditions, II
We We're permitted to pay prices for cat
tie commensurate with prices that con-
sumers are paying for meat products,
cattle Tsisers would recsive satisfactory
retl'ns for their investments. and BUTCH
ers would receive satisfactory compensa~
ton tor their labor and Investments in
marketing meat products.
You are all aware Of the unnatural and
artificial state OF affairs which exist TO-
day You are all aware that the
Chlcsgo packers ship ice-box meat taken
from cattle which ere hardly Mt for hus