Daily Republican., 1889-01-22
1.-THE BEEF WE EAT.
THE CHANGERS OF DELLA
WARE INTERESTED. .
Where Does 1t Come From? The Con-
test Between the Farmers and the
Butchers. What Farmers
and butchers say.

sn'PPihh Va nioukhhcitu Dbti lllO tne
state from any other state or territory,
The bill is in the interest of The grange
sentiment In the State and is a slap d.
rectly against the shipment OF Chicago
dressed beef into the State.
The grangers of d, laware are also Gig
culating petitions and getting numerous
siguers asking the Delaware Legislature
to pass similar law for this State. Not
only grangers but the whole agricultural
community is intensely interested in this
movement and are taking an active part
In the effort to secure The passage OF the
law
As to the motives witch have prompted
this movement representative OF The
REPUBLICAN has b en- interviewing sew
eral farml RS In Te!eres esce to the matter
snd the following are come OF the rea-
sons that have been advanced. The
principal reason advlHeed Is that II has
destroy cd the business of cattle ra siug
for the home marketf.
They all sgree in sa9ing that since the
heavy shipments ef Cheago beef 10 the
Eastern cities, that tins IN srket for home
raised cattle has been destroyed. 1t Is
hard work for them now to get cents
pound for s beet where the price before
this new era set In wa twice that much.
-+N'N N''Nht my oAJ fiN diJ IL
any offer is made, . ceIts pound on the
hoJf. This low price for home-ralss ID
cattle is dheet hlo& at farming iut T
ests, as farmers formcrly looked forward
te the steef-fattening season as the most
profitable in the year. Purchasing steers
Tor ia ttning tor the market has, they
say, been practically broken up.
This new charge goes fArlLcr, say the
iarmers. IL has deteriordttd Il the price OF
land, as nobody cares about raising corn
at 4J cents a bushel, whrat AZ 81 cents
ard cattle at 2 eebts pound on the hoJf.
| Instead of people warting 10 buy farms,
| those who own them 9ould like to soii
them Il they could get The money out OF
them that they put Ia Nh III. Under the
PRESENT ti cumsiaaccs they cay they can
not compete with jEr wcst In farming,
and eastern farmers III lst turn their az
tention to new cbarh Is of industry.
| With the profits in raising wheat. corn
and oats cut below tie minimum, they
have but dairying, truck and fruit raj Ing
left, aOd one OF the piohts of dairyine is
cut away by ihe cheap shipments Of
Chicago d. essed beef to tie cities OF TIE
seaboarj.
To the ours stion OF whether the farmers
here could not compete wi tho est in
the raising OF cattle, the reply was that 1t
was imposs 9 to compete in tlat line
will the gre at prairie western lands, with
their luxurious natural pRsturage. No,
cattle raising for profit was one of tue
los ayoeatious OF the past, and 1t cou d
never be recovered without legislation
against all Chic go beef molopolie..
This was the general sentiment of the
farmers. 49,
Meeting prominsns butcher day or
two ago, the representative o; the RE
PUBLICAN said to him, thinking that lie
was a bsef butcher, See berc, ] am
told that you butchers tuy your Chicago
beef for three and fonr ceLt3 a Tou nd
dress d, RI ady for the sail, and here ,ou
charge us from 10 to ~ cents pound for
stew pie es, ir m ~ to 10 cents for roasLs
and 10 up 20 20 and 25 cents Tor steak,
according to quGity, is this sop
The butcher smiled aud said, you are
correct In your reiererces, but mistaken
as to my occupation. / am q mutton,
pork aud calf butcher, and deal entirely
IN home products; bui you are right
about Chicago beef being sold here for
four cents pound &. oss in fact that Is
high price; 81 me can be bought for three
cents pound.
well theu," the newspare or man re-
joinei, ut iA an outrage and an i'm position
Tor butchers TO charge such outrageous
prices for beef. Every Que of them ought
soo1 To get ricl AID retire"
'Yes, but there Is draw back to this"
said tie mutt n-pork-calt butcher. "If
there were but IL few of them In the
business they would soon get rich. but
you see the bush is all cut up. Nearly
4 very body that gets out Of work aud can
raise knife, steel, tcales and cutting
block goes in the Chicago beef busi-
ness. Not only Is every legitimate stall
In The marksts occul ieu, but every nook,
Granny and passage way along the curb
stone markets is occLp ed by an amateur
butcher, aud besides all this early all
the grocery stofes OF from Market and
King streets now keep Ch caso beef and
Chicago sausage The irade Is SO divided
that prices have to be kept up or nothing
can be made. II only oae-half tine butch
ers Low selling Chicago beef were engaged
In the business the purchaser would get
the benefit OF the low prices. You ask
any OF these beef butchers and they will
tell } ou the same thinp.''
Several butchers were then called upon,
and they, as had betn predicted, told the
same etory of too many butchers al the
pound for Their h caeO bee! beef, iiuuch OF
which they said ..aey had 10 SCI, a. Il ,he
aaiie Pr'ce, which nee ssltatei putting
up the p. lc,s ." the choice cuts From /
what could be learned, however, there
as about leo per cent. profit on Ghicaao |
beef, bat the bGsiness is so cut up that
bare living is made.
How ling this state OF affaiis is to coz
Time nobo y seemed to know. 1t was
said TO be cut-thro t competition amongst
Chicago beet men that made 1t so low at
10 this city.
The farmers, In their war against Chi
cago betf, are attempting to prove that
the embaimng process through which it
Is put is injurious to health. and this
poeitt Is maintained by many who are
not farmers.
But viii tito passage OF ths contem-
plated bill pe CONSTITUTIONAL Is a question
that is freely discusse'. The Interstate
Comme ce bill, IL is said, would be dead
against su h law. But there are law
yers who say that bill can be drawn that
will stand the test OF these OBJ ,ections.
II IL .s proved that meat shipped Ia
that state is deleterious TO health 1t will
be stopped az once, aud this, 1t is said,
,an and will be done.
On the olher hand bu ehers pooh,
pooh the idea of Clhcag beef being un
heal by, and there are many citizens who
prefer it to the home slaughtered b,st.
That there is very little other kind of
Deef In the market is conc. ded, though
OF beef is sold as home
but Is nothing but Chicago
Deef
Inc question all through Is an Inter-
sting che, and these points picked up at
'andom will no dcunt cause coaaldnrah hla