Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-05-02
The Meat Trust "Called."

UT SAY , tlihL eluCt tilc StcaI au"auSO
in price OF meats, owing to trust ma
nipulation, that the use Of that form
OF food has decreased fully one third,
and this has led to very general re-
duction of the labor force employed in
handling that product.
The dispatch states that the promi-
nent packers are alarmed over the re-
suit of their effort to squeeze the blood
out Of the poor mans soup bone, and
the business is in Il state of uneasiness
that has not been experienced for
years. 1t is but an inevitable result OF
imposition of additional burdens upon
the shoulders vi the consumer, but i'll
this instance effect came more quickly
from the fact that nerve leading to
both stomach and pocket was touched.
This produced a unity Of action on the
part of the people that no exhortion
could have effected; and that it will
be effective is best assured by that very
selfishness which led to forming a
combine, an assurance that, as a
money-maker it will prove Ineffective
and that loss is almost surely to re.
suit from the high prices.
That the conflict will continue is
best shown by the TACT that the ma
iority of people who are abstaining
from flesh food are people whose in
comes will not admit of its use, which
is the most powerful stimulant for
persistent action.
This is Mt least one instance in
which the trust has overshot the mark.
1t had not made an accurate estimate
of the endurance and patience of the
people and has simply ran up against
a barrier as impregnable as the rock
of Gibraltar.
This is "straw" which President
Teddy can see very clearly and he i'm
mediately ordered Attorney Gen. Knox
to suppress the combine, and District
Attorney Bethea has been authorized
to begin proceedings forthwith against
the meat-trust extortion. The same
as when nature effects cure and some
nostrum gets the credit, the President
expects that while cor pOpui will
cause an immediate concession his
speedy action will be accredited with
being the stitch in time"
That "the carly bird catches the
worm" will doubtless be the moral
taught by this rapid move from cause
to effect.
GAMBLING, in Seattle, which has
been closed month to compel the
boss gamblers to allow a " rake-off" OF
20 per cent. to the Clanceys, who are
! the financiers Of the Republican ma
chine, is again running without re.
straint and in utter contempt of the
State law. 1t is said that the infamous
, agreement has been reduced to writ.
J ing and signed by all the parties con.
, cerned. Don't it seem little strange
that the prevailing party should be
} allowed thus to ride rough.shod over a
} State law and violate all sense OF com.
mon decency?
THE naval appropriation bill car
ries an item OF $74S,5OO for the Brem.
erton hayward, the largest made for
any navy yard in the United States.
The amounts appropriated for all
purposes at the yard, aggregates ST.
065, l07, with authority for the ulti-
mate expenditure Of 100000 more.
Representative Dayton says the com.
mittee is thoroughly convinced that
one OF the finest navy yards in the
world can be built on Puget Sound,
hence the appropriation for it is larger
than all others.
/ Sol SMITH RUSSELL, the eminent
/ actor, died in Washington, Monday,
Of perpetual hiccough. He had been
i'll for some time, from that distressing
, nervous malady. His wife and
, children were present at the fall of
/ the curtain on the final act of bril-
liant dramatic life. Mr.. Russell was
! "a years of age. Interment was made
| in Rock Creek Cemetery. near the ma
: tional capitol. He played Peaceful
Valley" in Olympia Theater, about
eight years ago.
THAT Pandora's box the piano,
when put up in contest"-has ere.
, ated more trouble; this time at Ever.
EFT, where over q million dollars
worth of tickets were apparently sold
TO fix the award OF a $500 instrument.
, Now that Olympus, Walla Walla, Van.
couver and Snohomish have had an
inning, they can sit in the judges
} stand and smile over still another veri-
fication of Puck's adage "Good Lord,
what fools we mortals be-"
"ToLD You So."-Oly condemns
Representative Cushman's TRADE
against the Speaker and the House
, rules as undignified, when it and his
party we'll knew that he was utterly
: wanting in common decency. He
. made speech in the theater, just be-
, fore be ran for Congress, which was
filled with ribald jests bordering on
downright obscenity.
DIE ZEIT, a prominent Vienna pa.
per, is predicting . financial and indus.
trial crisis for the United States. II
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