The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-03-17

mcnts during the Fifty fifth Congress, Ii"
places the responsibility on the Republican
party, and actually gloats over ii rs some
thing to he proud of Will the National
Convention Of his party dare TO assume
the same attitude on this question:
While the friends of Gen Miles do not
90 so far as to make the direct charge that
the canned meat furnished our soldiers in
Cuba and Porto Rico was horse meat, al
though labeled "Roast Beef, they do not
hesitate to say that suspicion strongly
points that way. 1t is known that 3oo,ooe
cans of the meat was bought in Europe,
where it had been shipped from this coun-
try The labels on the meat said it was
packed in Chicago, but the firm alleged to
have packed it-"The Prairie State Pack
ing Company'-is said to be unknown
either in Chicago or to the wholesale trade
of the country. That horse meat is being
| canned in Chicago and shipped to Europe
| is known, and persons who ought to know
have declared that the meat in question
was horse meat If the Military Court OF
| Inquiry really wishes to get at the bottom
of this business, it ought not to be dittl-
! cult matter. The contractors who sup
| plied this meat could be mace to tell who
| canned it and where it was canned The
| Court is already accused of failure to call
witnesses known to have information
tending to prove Gen. Miles contention,
and if its members are not careful their
report will meet with the same reception
the country gave to the report of the Alsef
Whitewashing Commission.
Senator Chandler, who has a reputation
for talking against things supported by
his party, but always voting with the party,
has an acute attack of antitrustphoba
| lust now He talks against the trusts as
seriously as though he was good demo
crat or populist, but that is no reason to
expect that he will vote against any meas
urcs desired by the trusts which may come
before the Senate in the future; he GER
| tainly has not done SO in the past.
Navy Department officials say that
| armor for our warships cannot be bought
for $500 ton, the limit set by the last
Congress. A statement made before the
| House Naval Committee shows conclu-
sively that it could be if there was not an
| armor trust formed to bleed the govern
| ment One of the members of this trust
sold Russia three thousand tons of the
same armor for $40 ton. 1t was claimed
| by representative of that Company that
| $40, 900 was lost on that order, for the pur-
pose of introducing their armor in Europe.
| This claim was direct admission that the
armor only cost 1888 ton; yet the trust
got the price fixed at $3.50 4 ton in the bill
as first passed by Congress. The reduc-
ton was made by the Senate. That is the
sort OF business that makes rich trusts and
disgusts those who believe in old fashioned
honest dealing with the government as
well as with individuals If the trust can
make armor for 1888 ton, which its
agents say it can, it can certainly afford to
sell it to the government for $500 ton,
| but, of course, that is no reason it will.
1t will probably prefer making the next
Congress raise the price, and the next
Congress, being republican in both
branches, will probably be easier to con-
troll than the last was.