Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-20
CITIZEN MAGILL
Gives the Beef Trust a Touching Up
and Incidentally Hits the Milk
Trust
TROMBONE

and Incidentally Hits the MIX
Trust.
Editor Sunday Globe
All over the country the local papers are
suggesting various methods of repression
in connection with the Big -Four Beef
Trust" The perfection of system in that
combination. coupled with The natural crav-
ing of Americans for meat, would bring to
naught any movement by the few OF the
community at large. The present con-
ditions are the result Of law, " apparently
in the interest Of health. For the last ten
months the Washington locals have been
furnished with whole columns Of, supposed
to be, voluntary contributions from the bac-
teriolOgists of this District, but the Wash
ington Posi- says they make their living by
alarming communities The butchers
know this 20 be true, and recognize the
same old systematic course Of twenty years
ago, now worked for the milk trust.
Attorney S. T. Thomas, in behalf Of the
retail butchers council. petitions for en-
actment 10 prohibit the sale of lambs with
liver, heart and lungs therein, and his Pc
tition is opposed by DR., Woodward on the
ground OF mot being injurious TO health.
If Dr. Woodward will acknowledge tainted
meat is injurious, / am competent 10 prove
by demonstration that leaving them in the
lamb is injurious. But this is not my OBJ
iect at present writing The object is 10
show how this trust (nO compeutou) robs
the butcher, causing him to advance prices
to consumers, viz
The lamb lungs are useless and worthless.
You cannot even give them away for dog
meat II is the only part of an animal that
will not bring penny; a dead loss. The
trust leaves them in the lamb to be weighed
TO the butcher. The heart and liver,
weighed at lamb price, are also a known
loss but the District of Columbia butchers
are powerless; they must have lamb, con-
sequently under existing conditions must
buy them. II is absolutely necessary for a
meat dealer to have all kinds; so the trust
says Take them as you ind them or DO
without, to do without is business suicide,
and we'll they know it.
The lamb is bought
First loss Two large sticks called back
SETS
Second loss -Four feet
Third loss. Old sleeps caul (fat) because
heavier.
Fourth loss. Lungs.
Fifth,loss. Then comes in difference be
tween weight and selling price 10 cents) of
heart and liver
The consumer has to pay for all this; the
salable parts must bring enough 20 give
the retailer a living profit, ard the trust gets
meat price for wood, feet fat and lungs
Dr. Woodward has in his Office a practical
butcher; he surely did not consult him in
reference to the effect" of leaving the
pluck butcher term in the lamb or he
would have approved the bill; but if for no
other reason "wilful, deliberate robbery of
the public" is cause sufficient to have this
article in pure food legislation and / think
il is plainly set forth here, that the public
eventually pay for an article that Is posi-
lively worthless. The bone (fertilizer) men
will not take them off the butchers hands
as a gift, but the beef trust gets good money
for them. A thug says hold up our hands
and he takes your money; the trust says
take it or leave it. Now suppose all leave
it, what then; one-half cent per pound ad-
ded to pork pays for them, and so on, an end
less chain drop one they add on to another
A butcher, thoroughly conversant with all
the tricks of adding superAous It's, ETC., to
the carcasses brought here by them, of the
difference in the trimming Of smoked
meats, etc, whereby the public are worsted
could write for a month and not tell il all
An advantage is always taken by such
concerns Of anything which looks like an
excuse The price of corn is now blamed
for the advance; If il will not pay to feed
cattle on corn at present price, why are
those cattle not rushed on the market,
causing a glut and fall of prices. How
about census report as 70 the number of
cattle, and who owns seven-tenths of the
live stock in the United States? The beef
trust.
This state OF affairs was accomplished by
Legislation" and can only be defeated by
Legislation. Attorney Thomas is on the
right road. ! am only a butcher, cannot
use medical or technical terms or language
in commenting on this matter, but claim
that / can take a lamb with pluck" on il
shipped from Chicago and prove It to be
tainted, as we'll as being downright rob.
berry.
Have not sold pound Of meat for more
than three years; never expect to sell any
more; have no relative in the business, or
likely to 60 in it; il cannot be said / am
grinding an AK.
P. S.-Milk, jury cases, nine months
old not tried yet
Vinegar, jury cases, eight months old
not tried yet.
Buuerine people milk easel not arrested
yet
Wholesale grocers refuse TO Join "tin
soldiers, WON'T march UP and pay fines,
not arrested.
Milk bill in Congressional pigeou-hole I
-four months oldnow) no action. Congress
don't scarce worth a cent why should your
Answer, because when passed in the last
mad rush Of bills" it will cause you to pay
ten cents per quart for milk.
CHARLES J. MAGILL.