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meat is being monopolized by the great
packers. But l happen to have a ten
ant out in Iowa who has a fine bunch
OF cattle, on which no packer holds
lien of any kind, and he writes me that
he is willing to sell them to butchers
If they will pay as much as the pack
ers offer. l am quite sure the people
would as soon buy this meat of the
butchers as of the packers. Thus there
is afforded a splendid opportunity for
any one to make all kinds of money if
he will but give the farmer as much
money for his beeves and give the peo-
pie as much beef for their money Sup
pose we take the tariff off beef and
then suppose the herds of cattle from
Mexico and South America are brought
in by the hundred thousand. They will
find their way to the stock yards and
the butchers will be compelled to bid
against the packers then as now No.
The removal of the tariff on livestock
and meat would not restore the butch
ers to business. 1t might ruin the far
mers, but the packers could stand it;
for nothing less than organized capt.
tai could enter the import meat bust
ness with packing houses in foreign
countries, refrigerating ships and other
expensive equipment. happen to know
that at least one, and l understand two,
of the big packing houses, have had
men looking into the South American
field for more than two years. The far
mer. as 1t is, has ample reason to be
apprehensive.
Fewer Beeves-HiSher Prices.
Il have taken occasion to look this
matter up since reading of these reso-
lutions and 1 think 1 can find reason
for the present price of meat other
than the protective tariff. l find that
there were received at the stock yards
IN Chicago, in the one month of July,
1902, $1,000 less fbeeves and 10000 less
hogs than in the same month one year
ago. That means 1000 less animals per
day. The Q road alone, during the en-
tire month brought from the South
west where the corn crop was a fail
ure last year, 1000 less fat steers per
day this year than last
Let no one understand this to be a
DEFENSE of the packers or an extenua-
ton of their offenses. A suit is now
pending against them and if the allie
cations of the petition are sustained
land that seems probably they are
going to have trouble, and it will take
very much more acute form than it
would to say to the farmers of the
United States that their industry shall
be opened to competition from the TN
limited ranges of South America.
The Secret of Success.
THE senior Phil Armour tcld
me that he got rich, while
young man, by watching the iron
and coal miners. He said: whenever
these men were at work used to steal
every ham 1 could get my hands on,
and my old partner would say, Phil,
you will break us up 1 would an
swer, No. those fellows are working
But when the coal and iron workers
were idle, 1 used to sell everything 1
could dispose Of The secret of Amer
lean prosperity, gentlemen, can be
couched in four words-'They are work.
ing now And They means every
body-farmer and artisan, mechanic
and merchant, the man at the forge
and the man in the field-and they are
all independent. Away back in 1916,
Daniel Webster, in the course of a
three-days' speech against that most
unfortunate bill which repealed the
protective tariff act which bore the sig
nature of Old Tippecanoe, uttered this
maxim: When there is work for the
hands there will be bread for the
teeth
When l was a boy we could al
ways tell when the old miller was pick
ing his burrs-because the mill was
shut down. 1 anticipate there will be
found those who will not favor shut
ting down the mill. while we are turn.
ing out as good a quality of flour a:
at present, especially if it is likely t.
take very long to repair conditions"