Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-04-11

rich of OF what the local butcher muss
waste.
Take the item OF tallow, which is
only worth 10 the country butcher in
market, after paving the freight, $50
to $50 per ton. The dressed meat man
makes his into oleo oil which is worth
Sl6U 10 Sl15 per ton bones with the
dressed meat men are saved and sold
for $40 per ton with the country
butcher lost. Horns with the dressed
meat men are worth 5 per ION with
the country butcher lost. lloofs with
the dressed meat mel are worth $50
per ION; with the country butcher lost.
Neatstout oil and glue stock with the
dressed meat men are worth SO per
ton; with the country hatcher lost.
Blood with the dressed neat. nlen is
worth S33 per ton aud the entrails at
ter ali the fat Is rendered out are made
into fertilizers and sold ut ST. per ton !;
with the country butcher LOST.
Does all this saving count for moth
ing in the sale of the farmers cattle
Most a~sssuredly he get its benefit.
Farmers and feeders i'll striking ut the
| dressed meat men are striking their
best friends, and with their destruc-
zion destroy the goose that lays the
golden egg
If the very industry which il now
being condemned had not opened up
our foreign market respectfully ask,
in view OF the enormous over produc-
ton IF cattle, where would be our eat
tie market of the west at the present
| time
The speaker then fully and clearly
explained that the claim that the
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Kansas CIty had killed Chicago, was
false. lie said the reason 81. Louis
was behind in these matters was that
she hadn't the nerve and enterprise To
take hold of them.
Under the provisions OF one section
the packers OF Kansas City in order 10
sell meat in st. Joseph, Sedalia or
st. Louis must first pay freight OF
their cattle 10 these points, and after
the cattle have been impressed by the
high seal of the state they must ship
them back to Kansas tIty, then
slaughter them, pay freight again 10
their respective points before the pub
lie are graciouSiy and kindly permitted
TO buy from them if SO disposed. In
other words it creates u monopoly for
the butchers in every town i'll the
state. We also have the e~Xtraordin-
AIRY spectacle presented Of Missouri
legislature seriously considering TO
grant certain privileges to the farmers
of the state, which, ii done by Phil
Armour, he is to be fined in d sun OF
moi less than 500 nor more than S1U
or imDrisOned not less that thirty
days or more than six months in the
county iail. \. little more than II NeaI
ago WI celebrated at the city of Phil
attelphia the centenary anniversary OF
the inrmation of the constitution OF
I the United StateS-that wonderful
document that has been the II
admiration of the thinkers of the 9
in every clime-a document which the
great Gladstone, though having pass
ed the time allotted by the psaImist,
declares that he peruseS year by yeaI
with an eagernesS and Il delight. into
this document wa placed these words:
The shall have power 10
regulate commerce with foreign na-
lions and among the several states ana
with the Indian tribes
THEIR VIEWS.
We are told that our fathers had two
prominent objects inylew in thus giving
the right Ito congress 10 regulate coin
merce, viz: .Atlirmatively to give TO
the federal legislature the control OF
foreign and Interstate ana
negatively to take it from the states.
The use Of it by the states under the
confederation put restrictions on trade
and intercourse and created %inequail-
ties between. the states whichit was be-
iieyed the federal government would
not do If the powers We're vested i'll
congress-" And from that day TO his
in the contentious between the demo-
cratic party and the federalist-be-
tween the democratic party and the
wing, and in the early days between
the democratic party and the republic
can party. while there may have been
differences as to whether the tariff
should be high or low as between the
American and the foreigner, allagreed
that there was to be unlimited free
trade among the states, and thai all
American industries were to be on the
same footing and the same level. Our
fathers looked down the stream of time
and saw with prophetic vision the
trouble that would arise when one
state began to protect itselfagainst the
industries OF another state, when the
butchers of Pennsylvania would begin
to drive out the beef packers Of Mis-
souri,, and thus wisely guarded against
1t. Within the last five years Il new
doctrine has sprung up and the cloud
no larger than q mans hand has OBJ
scured the armament. The protective
craze unfortunately is taking possess
sion of the whole country. Commerce
is no longer to he uafettered between
the states, but if in the march ofinven-
ton new discoveries encroach upon The
old, then the old must be protected
against the new. In 1883 the apple
vinegar men endeavored to tax out of
existence the white wine vinegar peo-
pie, and We're only frustrated in doing
so by that sturdy Scotchnlan, Senator
Beck of Kentucky.
FOUND WHILE ORR SLEPT
For years and years the cotton seed
OF the south was not fit for anything
save to be thrown out in order to fer
tilize the barren hiilsides. y scientist,
delving away when the world slept,
made a discovery that cotton seed was
Il vegetable containing the purest oil.
This discovery added fifty millions OF
wealth annually to the SOUTH; but cot
ton seed lard encroached on hog lard,
being purer and cheaper, and last year
off to Washington rushed the hog lard
people, demanding that cotton seed
lard should be taxed, because they
could not compete with it-asking con-
gress, when the treasury was burden
ed with u surplus, to prostitute that
provision of the constitution allowing
them to lay and collect taxes, because
IN the march of Invention the old could
not compete with the new. Itwas not
done because congress had reached il
state in the new protective craze where
it was necessary to call a halt; and now
we have the butchers desiring protec-
ton from the dressed beef interest
complaining that the dressed beef III
dustry sells Il cheaper article to the
consumer than they can and that they
must have protection. | respectfully
inquire at this point, if as Legislators
you do not W some duty to the con-
sumner. who is looking after his interest
in this fight? The butchers demand
that they shall be protected and to this
end a convention was calledin the city
of st. Louis last November. They in
vitd the cattle men to meet them in
convention assembled and they met,
or rather they endeavored for a week
to meet, but they were not able to
gather together in all the land a re-
spectacle number of cattlemen to sec
Ond them in their undertaking. Their