Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-07
ROUND.UPS.
.r,ses Rivaling the Big Four viii
hD', so,re the Livestock Problem.
assigned Why Cattle Do Not Winter
81 Well as Formerly = General
Livestock Itsms'

.o recent interstate cattlemen's
d" - held at Fort Worth, Tex,
CON-, ,.,'on, we're passed demanding leg
Fs'Us aid 10 disrupt an organized ring
f,D '.s controls the meat market to the
TD''1 .or and consumer alike, and reaps,
nrosts in its transactions that the
", ..,.nep are in great distress.
cs I.i. ,rue that the meat combine is
Il . ~ the most oppressive organiza-
p'oOaD,.i, s country; its enormous profits
ton u ari,us. and when outsiders by
Gre uu .,,ion try 10 get fnothold, they
eonps-aIIv suppressed in such numor-
are I.e-s that few have the hardihoOd to
EtemPt IL; ,,othizinp with the con-
bs. rafarred to, says the Financier,
UD so NOT endorse their measure for re-
w., W. 4 for legislators are poweFiess IN such
matter. 8. o,o remedv and that is
4usls nav concerns into the business,
HlU ,brs promote competition; in no
gu - can the meat combine be over
0'D., present profits are simply enor-
CONF LOT the people or the cattlemen
u NUE. organize stock company
us ~ e. shares and supply Eastern and
WIN ,n.r,pmers as direct as possible. There
Sn -, for many such organizations in
~, business which probably contains as
, .., risk as any industry in the country.
- Tta naoDle must take hold themselves
-s,1ever such expressions IS above re-
VA Exist: they can easily do it, and it
Ia'I ,,rdsr good and conservative man
srt nav far better than savings
ss,Es The people of this country must
- how vast sum, counting an in
tod dollar from each, they are able to
,sn,roI. even larger in the aggregate
,bor our national banks have on deposit,
NAV be seen in the deposits of savings
h,rksthroughout the country. England
sas Ionp practiced this method with great
,rcca,s adopting the plan of issuing
,Eo,es for So, and even less, enabling
sysrrboody 10 contribute. By this
means great and useful industries may
La s,artej: not on the cooperative plan,
which ia failure. but like any corpora
fon with a solid head at the front. The
nsope are all the time crying out that
have no capital, and are oppressed by
those who have 1t, where as matter of
hct tbey have thousands of millions that
thew can easily spare for legitimate bust
ness.
few honest leaders are wanted to
show the people what they can do in the
Eay Of solid business undertakings, and
for the moment there is no more promis-
lng department than the meat supply.
But let no man deceive the people he
leads TO invest in any undertaking, for
they will not tolerate what men in better
circumstances would overlook. Strict
honesty is the first requisite of peoples
organizer, his life would not be safe if he
should attempt to mislead them. Let the
people Judge by such a man IS face, one
honest man can invariably tell another at
glance, and If there be question about
Il, await better opportunity.
The coming decade Will see some as
tonishlng results in the direction just
pointed out; for when this movement of
people 'sshAres' is well underway there
will arise great numbers of organizations
dlOyer the country, and in the excite
nent much harm and swindling is likely
10 occur. All we can say is move slowly
10 such matters and do not invest money
until the subject is thoroughly looked into
from every possible standpoint; above all
donot be hurried into anything for fear
CLOSING chance to invest. But rs above
said there would be little if any risk I'M
Der solid management to engage 81 ,0O0,-
OVO, or even Sc, 600 900, capital in ''peo-
PIES shares" in the meat industry, and
We advise the people to agitate the mat
Ter in their own behalf with view to
putting such a scheme afoot.