The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-09-23
THE CATTLE MARKET.


Several who have cattle To sl-ll hsvl
r asked us what We got for oar cath
and what we Thought of iIie uIafllt 2
The market is tough and getting ,vcrsl
every day. SIR. Ilosrhkis, Of REM
county, and tile Jotly7,al man took fou
cafs OF As fine -year-uid steers as
we're ever raised In This ennnty 10 Kan
sas City, some tSo weeks ago. They
5 averaged about 1850 pounds all round
. and sold one-haff Of them for -. 90
per cwt., and the other half at S2.7O;
tie market price for sucli cattle Is now
from 80 10 S2-5O per cwt. Every
one who sold cattle were disap-
pointed. We saw hue COWS go over
the scales at one cent per pOunds good
calves sell for five and six dollars per
head; yearliug steers at $50 per cwt,
and since our return we have seen rep
ireseHtative sales where COWS that
weighed 1850 sold for hfty-fye cents
per cwt. It il murder IN the first de-
gree ANA cattle men are making as liz
tie money as the man Who is raising
Iforty-seveu cent wheat. After selling
the cattle, III company with several
cattle raisers, We visited the butcher
shops Of several firms in Kansas City
and priced tile meat: SirloiH steak
eighteen cents per pound; round, If
/ teen and chuck or shoulder steak,
| twelve and Ous-Eaif; roasls, from nine
/ up TO sixteen cents; boiling meats, from
seven to ten cents. In fact seven cent
meat WAS the cheapest that came from
the carcass Of just such cattle as we
had sold for S2.7O and the major part
WAS from one to two cent cows.
When asked why this WAS 50, they res
pended: I'VE have nothing to do with
you fellows who RAISE the stock, We
buy OF the ing six and make only
fair profit" a gentleman from Elk
county asked: why don't yOu bay
Of US, and if you can't pay us more, /
give your customers the benefit of
lower priced meatP'' The answer WAS: !
such move would bust every meat
market that would dare to tackle it. |
The beef trust would open a shop as
close TO the rebe;IiUtts butcher as they /
could and give away their meat in or /
der to bust him. - That is the whole /
secret in q mat shelI-Why cattle are
SO low and beef is 50 high. |
A poor devil is robbed at both ends of !
the line. The farmer raises tile ami |
NAL from calf; day in and day out lie |
tolls through the heat of summer and /
the cold of winter to care for it thHt it |
may grUw fat for the SHAMELESS. finally |
market, with what pride he lnslds it Oh
the cars ami starts to market. What
does he meet if he goes to Kansas City
Chicago or St. Louis? \ slick, well-fed
and well-dUessed chap meets him, sets
"a price that causes Mr.. Farmer to
stare. This slick duck that sleeps
while the farmer tramps through the
storm and cold, wants to make and
does make in one short day more by
half than the farmer receives for his
three years hard labor. Aud then the
robbery has not come entirely of from
him. The lHbOreT, who has his family
to fe ed, must pay tribute to the roJber
and lie is bled on his meat bill for an
other profit which goes Into the Golfer
of the fellows who toll not or spin.
/ Anyone who has taken cattle to mar
| ket and investigated the mattor know
these to be facts. Senator Gillette,
some four years ago in the state ser
ate, proved it c0nclusively, and yet it
! goes On-the farmer raises his cattls
at loss, and eventually loses his
/ home. the lubOrer is well pleased if ut
the end of the month his wages pays
his monthly debts and there is not "a
cent laid by for the pruyerbial rainy
( day. And YET, some people say you
can't cure orr financial ills by legisla-
/ ton. This is cijlimed by the republi-
! can leaders, yet III 1888 their platform
[ declared against trusts and promised
/ to abolish them. If it can't lie done,
why did they promise to do it is a pert
ineut question? If the answer is that
it can be done, why have they not done
| itY They had the whole law making
machinery. There is ue chance TO lay
it to the opposition. Even the doing
away of grain gambling, which is an
other curse to the producer, passed the
| lower house and WAS killed la the rrpuJ-
lean senate. Every thumb screw has
been turned on the farmer ANA yet
there are men who are raising cattle
ANA wheat right here ia Kansas who
dance when trust whistles and claim
they are standing mp for Ksnsas 10y
endorsing, with their ballots, the par
ty who is responsible for these thiHgs,
and are Christians to the extent OF
kissing tile hand that sinites them.
/ Sensible, is it nOt2
/ " hat the Omotzi Republican Org an Of Re
no County Thinks Of Lubsr
Day.