The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-01-06
CATTLE RA1sERs, ATTENTION.

Cattle ~raisers: q bill is now pending
be fore the Agricultural Committee OF
the United States Senate which, if 1t
becomes a law, will depress every
head of cattle from one to taOo dollars
per head.
Can this depressed industry stand
further depression -? The Conger
Compound Lard Bill places a tax on
compound lard and prohibitory re
strictions upon the sale of it. Twenty
per cent. of compound lard is beef fat.
Prohibit its sale and the market for
your beef fat is ruined.
The advocates of the bill say that
its purpose is to prevent fraud in the
sale of lard. If this is the purpose
why not pass the bill introduced by
! Senator A. S. Paddock, Chairman of
the Agricultural Committee of the
Senate. The Paddock Pure Food Bill
introduced IN behalf of the Farmers
Alliance Of Nebraska, prevents not
only fraud in lard, out in 255 articles
of adulterated food.
The Conger Bill was introduced at
the request of a Boston pork packer.
Hon. J. H. Wilson, a Republican
member of the House of Representa-
tives from the State of Kentucky and
a member of the Agricultural Com
mittee, in his report against the Conger
Bill, states: "Wh first proposed any
legislation in Congress upon the sub
ject of lard =? The earliest known bill
was presented by the Hon. Mr.. Dawes,
in the United States Senate, Deem
Der Is, 1887, Fiftieth Congress, first
session Is. $780, by request of John
B. Squire, a pork packer in Boston.
(See page 49 of the hearings of the
Fifty 6rst Congress.) The proceedings
before the committees of both Houses
show that the prominent advoca: es of
lard legislation appearing before said
committees as promoters thereof, were
as follows:
Page AZ, Mich. Ryan, pork packer,
Cincinnati.
Page 81, Joel A. Sperry, pork
porker, New Haven, Conn.
Pages 68 and 266, John Whitaker,
pork packer, St. Louis, Mo.
Page lOl, E. A, hartman, pork
packer, Bridgeport, Conn.
Page 23O, William s.. Harvey, pork
packer, Kansas City, Mo-, and Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Page lO2, U. E Epperson, pork
packer, Kansas City, Mo
Page 246, O. W. Thomas, pork
packer, Louisville, KY.
Page IS, Mr.. Morrison, pork packer,
| Cincinnati, Ohio.
Page 247, W. ". KimbalI, pork
packer, Boston, Mass.
Page 258, G. G. Cryer, pork packer,
Baltimore, Md.
Pages ll9 and 277, W. L. Hill,
pork packer, Boston, Mass.
Page $50, John G. Hately, pork
packer, Chicago.
Page 348, William Kirkwood, pork
packer, Chicago.
"Among the prominent petitions,
letters, resolutions, statements, etc,
favoring the bill, we also note:
Page s, Cincinnati Board of Trade.
Page 8, Chicago Board of Trade.
Page Is, Francis Whitta yer & Sons,
pork packers. St, Louis, Mo.
Page Is, St. Louis Live Stock Elk
change, Fast St. Louis, Ill.
Page 1O7, Louisville Board of Trade.
Same page, Boston Chamber of
Commerce.
Page ll6, Plumb & Winston, pork
packers, Bridgeport, Conn.
Page 1O8, William Ryan & Sons,
pork packers, Dubuque, Iowa.
Also John P. Squire & Co., Boston,
Mass.
Des Moines, Iowa, Packing Co.
international Packing Co., New
York G ty.
Chicago Live Stock Exchange.
James E. Booge & Sons, pork pack
ers, Sioux City, Iowa, city.
The foregoing seems to US to be as
choice. an assortment OF pork packers,
combines, and stock yards representa-
tives al a be gathered in the length
and breadth of these United States.
These are the men, We take it, who,
when they can, squeeze the last cent
of money out of the hog-raisec and the
hog seller. These are the men who
through their "eveners" and adjust
ers at the stock yards and at.the pack
ing houses "dock " the honest farmers
most arbitrarily on every drove Of
hogs they buy, and these are the men
who appear before the Congress of the
United States as manufacturers of
"prime steam lard as explained in
the foregoing pages, which they say
the government must not touch, and
as advocates for the enactment of this
particular meas sure which they say is
solely in the interest of the down.
troddor foryooro