The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-16

| absurdity Of hoping that the Shenandoah
Beef Company will advance and by so doing
/ drive the butchers to using home-dressed
stock. The idea of using homo-dressng
stock is quarter of q century behind the
present age, and the people of Shenandoah
have long ago come to the conclusion which
the whole country has reached, namely that
beef should be dressed where il is raised and
not ireghted for several days without food or
water, which results in injury, brings on
fever, disease, etc. If the Shenandoah Beef
| Company have brought the prices of beef to
a lower standard it has not been an injury,
, but rather benefit to the community. Be-
cause in so doing the railroad transportation
companies and middle men who buy in very
! small quantities are the men who suffer,
! Hence the falsity of the argument used by
the gentleman with whom the HERALD man
held conversation. Allow me also to add
that we are in no way interested in the retail
prices our business is carried on on a cash
basis and customer who cannot pay does
not buy The fact that we opened our
salesroom to dealers for a meeting and that
the secretaryship was forced upon the
manager Of the beef company does not
prove that the manager was interested.
We have established business which is with
YOU to stay, and we have the support Of the
dealers because il is for their benefit to deal
with us. Our refrigerator come from the
west in less than three days, and all the ply
sicians in the country agree that meats are
| q D.,
fully that length of time. Your article states
that the Shenandoah Beef Company is an
injury to the town because through it parties
have started into business who know nothing
e whatever about beef. This is impossible and
{ were it so it only helped break up a monopoly.
q There are no dealers in Shenandoah to-day
building brick blocks and tenement rows,
a because the monopoly in the beef business
o has been broken up and that because the
western dressed beef has brought prices to a
lower standard and the consumers whose
protest you printed have received the benefit,
The gentleman who says the parties who put
down the prices are looking to him for sup
port to raise prices is altogether too self.
e assuming because the dealers in Chicago
dressed beef are fully 4 cents pound lower
= to-day than those who claim to sell nothing
o but home-dressed stock; and some Of the
e learned people of Shenandoah are near
a sighted enough to believe that such beef is
n worth more money. The dealers of Shenan-
dOah are not raising prices that they may ac-
c cumulate wealth, but that they may be recon-
e pensed for their laborand this they have per-
feet right to do. The meat industry of this town
IS should not be altogether a charitable institu-
l tion because times are hard. In conclusion
a let me say that the article in Saturday s
. edition is entirely void of logic and the most
r nonsenscal article l have ever read The
4 Western dressed beef butchers are masters
T. Of the situation" whether prices are high or
S low, for the market is always much higher
o for the dealer who thinks that this will
t revive the old method of killing should the
F. Shenandoah Beef Company demand higher
S prices. We are and claim to be the poor
4 mans friend and he who thinks he can meet
t our prices by dressing beef at home is only,
S as he expresses it, "being led around by the
y nose
q GTTENr Pr-rp ro