The Sunday globe., 1901-06-30

The Washington Retail Butchers
Mutual Protective Association is after
the .Icago trust packers and shippers
of salt and fresh meats, or rather the
association is about to defend itself
from the unscrupulous methods of the
trusts and their local agents, The
great Chicago monoPolists have had
the Washington butchers by the throat
for a number of years. They have
succeeded in running OuI Of business
and running the old time butchers who
knew their trade and could kill dress
and prepare their meats for patrons.
The modern retail butcher knows as
little about this as a machine shoe
maker does of how to make boot or
shoe. The business of retail butch.
ering has been confined to purchasing
the Chicago dressed meats from the
local agents of Armour x Co., Nelson
Morris & Co.. etc. These modern butch.
ers stand behind stalls of trfpe, bo-
logna sausage, legs of mutton and sides
of beef, with as much conception OF
how to slaughter, dress and prepare
their meats for market as a Hindoo
fakir or a Buddhist, to whom the COW
is a sacred animal
Nevertheless, some of the old time
butchers are still left; men who are
masters of their business, but alas!
they are not only in a minority as to
numbers, but also reduced financially
to such conditions by the Mckinley
prosperity that they are compelled
each week to step up to the desk Of
the local agents of the big Chicago
monopolists and pay spot cash for
their weeks supply of Chicago ma.
chine butchered meats, etc. Many Of
these old timers decline to make coun-
try store grocers of them selyesh, in the
miscellaneous assortment Of tripe,
sausage, picked pigs feet, etc, etc.
and COnfne their stalls to the legiti-
mate articles of fresh meats, beef, NUT.
ton, etc.
A brighter day is about to dawn for
not only the legitimate butcher but
also for the consumer ana the butch
ers Of Washington City are on a decid.
ed and practical strike against the cold
storage machine prepared Chicago
meats. Their main grievance results
from the practice of the local agents
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that Is, in small quantities, to peddlers
or even to actual consumers, thereby
depriving the middleman or butcher
Of the per cent or profit of his stall.
II is hardly necessary to state that the
consumer was deprived also of this
profit or per cent as the monopolist
and his agent added the regular profit
Of the middleman to the price the con-
sumer was forced TO pay and put 1t IN
his own capaciOus pocket
An abbatoir company has been
formed known as the Washington and
Virginia Stock Yard Company" which
is to be incorporated under the laws
Of Virginia This company proposes
supplying the home market, and The
Globe sincerely hopes running out the
Chicago monopOlists and their agents
The people of Washington and espe-
cially the patriotic element embracing
organized labor, should see to il that
no other meat is purchased for their
tables but that slaughtered and pre-
pared by the local abbatOir company.
This meat will be superior to the Chi
CagO article In this particular: That
the beeyes, sheep lambs, hogs, ct al,
Wuh be home raised and not permitted
to die natural deaths, as so many Of
lne Chicago Texas steers and scraggy
Western sheep and lambs DO before
reachiong the machine curative monop.
Olistic packers in the Windy City.
Then again, the home article will be
properly slaughtered and dressed. and
will be not only superior for the table
bat good to the eye TO look upon.
lo hold uttauAarr IN
last guaranteed the success Of the en-
terprise of a local abbatoir, as the prin.
cipal stock was subscribed by those
present, and very little remains TO be
disposed Of The subscription books
were opened at Bessler's Hall contains
now over 200 dealers signatures. The
meeting was enthusiastic and was
presided over by Mr. John p, Kelley.
The Retail Butchers Mutual Protect
i've Association has also over four hun
dred members and is affiliated with the
Eastern National Retail Butchers Mu-
tual Protective Association. The OBJ
iect of the Association, as stated In the
preamble to its constitution, TO unite
in common brotherhood all retail mer.
chants who deal i'm fresh salted, smok-
ed or cured meats.
Continuing, the preamble states the
other objects Of the association to be
ward individual Of the whole bunch,
as follows:
'HTo protect their common interests
as retail merchants and the Interest
of the general public i'm the matter OF
dealing in. slaughtering, handling, and
selling meats designed for human
food and TO see that such stock De 80
slaughtered and handled az TO serve
the highest sanitary conditions for hu
man food
"To ioin hands with the various as
sOclations throughout the country
whose object is the betterment OF our
race and the raising TO the highest
possible standard of social and bust.
ness life an who are oppressed by the
iron heel Of grinding monoBolies
which are crushing the life cut Of an
the smaller merchants who are strug.
Cling for life liberty, and happiness.
"TO oppose with all the energy We
possess the unbusinesslike and uu.
righteous practice I'm which some
wholesalers engage the wholesaling of
their goods 10 the retail merchants
and then stealing the legitimate Gus.
toners Of such merchants by retailing.
"To oppose the concentration Of
trade by the few, as In the depart.
mnnt stores 10 the injury of the many
and Destroying the prospects Of thous
ands yet 10 come that the few may
prosper"
The abbatoir company at their meet.
ing Of which Mr.. Louis =. Krey acted
as secretary, elected q board Of direct.
ors. namely. William G.. Carter, 9.
Lemon Hoover, Charles w. BOtch, ]. r.
Donovan Louis p Krey. L. Hohen'
maier. Charles Z. Ebel, r. A. Golden
NKF Hunt