Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-01

as soon as they heard that car of live
 stock had arrived in town then the
 prices took sudden drop and remain ed there until the native stock was disposed of, when it went up again. This kind of tactics was continued
 until the cattle raisers abandoned the
 business and left the trusts in undis- puted possession of the field. AS l think of that time now I have no recol- lection of anything that tended more
 to aid the trusts in the fight to dis lodge the farmers of Connecticut as competitors in the meat trade than
 such arguments as are offered by "A.
 E. B. We had our meetings in those days and those who figured in them
 and are alive to-day know how tue trusts piled their game. There are men | in Waterbury to-day who acted on the principles advocated by "A. E. B. twenty years ago who must hate | themselves for the balance of their lives after they saw what the trusts did when the native beef went out of
 the market.
 T like to talk of this meat question because am familiar with it. For
 this reason have very little patience with men who are constantly referring l to state and national evils affecting it and never pointing out a remedy which will re-
 ceiye the support of any great number l of rational minds. The ballot box is not cure-all, though it is a potent factor for the furtherance or hinder ance of everything that makes for the good of mankind. But the individual m. q +n eaf4 or when all realize this the trusts will
 wonder what has become of their pat rons. Every man who plants a patch of potatoes, keeps a COW and makes a pound of butter or in any other way turns hand that brings him in some thing for use on his table without go- ing to the market for it is a competitor 1 of the trust He takes himself and all who have the opportunity should produce such things as they have to purchase from the, trusts, wouldn't the trusts suffer? st
 This is why suspect that your, all legged socialist correspondent is one of our big meat men Individual enter prise Is the only thing the trusts on breadstuffs fear. Their organization is complete in every other respect, but they are not in a position to prevent people from tilling the soil to the ex- tent at least of making it yield suffi- ciently for local use. Under the con
 ditions that exist to-day this is the only way you can hit the trusts and they know it. They are not half as much afraid of the politician as they are the man with the hoe.
 "I think if we divided our time be- tween politics and an effort to raise something ourselves instead of having the trusts doing this for us we would
 be better off. We have too many po- Ilitical parties. The trusts have but
 one, and aided by their support, this laughs at the futile efforts of the com Ipetitor to displace it. People who earn living by the sweat of their brow should have but one party. They have Interests in common and when they get into separate camps and commence shooting at each otlier they are per- forming valuable service in behalf of
 the party of the trusts and combines. ? 1 The gentleman who furnished this talk on the meat question was posi- l tive that "A E B. was q we'll known local agent Of one of the Chicago meat Ecorporations and it took U good deal
 or persuasion on the part of the re
 porter to convince him of his error.