Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-05-16

So, when revelations come. the cars
plans progress. His dominating influence
is the one thing that could guarantee
peace, and by and by the sultan's protec-
tors may become tired of lending their
aid, moral or physical, to such a deprav-
ed member of Europe's council, and then
Russia will be found not only willing
but prepared to take over the burden of
cleaning out Turkey.
The uprising in Macedonia is but a
straw that shows the ever-constant
wind,-Rutland News.
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EDUCATION BY THE BEEF TRUST.
If the beef trust thought it could force
the people of the United States to pay
any price for its products II desired to
name, it must have been pretty
thoroughly disabused of the idea by this
time. The attempt of the beef barons to
export money from the people has set in
motion a variety of influences which will
continue to work permanently no matter
low shrewdly the packers may seek to
shape public opinion hereafter, or how
low they may force prices of meat pro-
ducts.
Under the influence of the operation of
these forces combined, it is stated that
the consumption of beef 10 the United
States has diminished fully one-third
since the crusade against the beef trust
began, and the movement may be said to
have only fairly begun. When one con-
siders the enormous quantity of beef
| ho had tn
cons ume previous to the recent elevation
of prices to an altitude to which many
patrons absolutely refused to climb, the
extent of the loss the packing houses
must be suffering can be partially
realized.
In the first place the beef combination
has appealed to the pocket of the Ameri-
can, which in the great majority of cases
is the most vulnerable point. Working
/ through this avenue it has forced him to
devise substitutes for beef. lie will not
starve himself or his family, but he has
already begun to learn how he can sup
ply the physical needs of himself and
family without beef. and when the lesson
is once learned, he will never fully re-
lapse into his former condition of almost
helpless dependence upon the beef
combination. Sooner or later the beef
barons will fully realize the extent and
character of this new force they have set
in motion and appreciate the egregious
blunder they have perpetrated against
their own interests.
Perhaps the most serious and damag-
ing influence which the beef combination
has set in motion through its attempted
eXtortion, however. is the movement for
the consumption of less meat of any
kind. 1t might surprise some investiga-
tors to find how large proportion of the
people of the Northern part of the
United States eat meat three times day
in some form or another. Physicians
have urged in many instances that their
patients were in the habit of eating too
much meat, and now that the beef barons
have enforced the attention of the whole
people to this subject in the most EN-
phatic manner possible, the chances are
that host of people will discover that
their health has been improved by eating
meat not over once Il day. If this proves
to be case, the beef trust will suffer I'M
told loss, for nothing gains so strong Il
hold upon the American people as fad.
! Another influence which the beef trust
has set in operation, and one which will
be hailed by the farmers of Vermont as
J well as of other Eastern states is the
directing of attention of consumers of
meat products to the possibilities of pro-
duction possessed by our own soil. PEG.
pie in this section of the country had
reached a point where they almost be-
lieved It TO be a commercial impossibility
to raise meat producing animals to any
extent, and it must be admitted that the
utter Indifference of the purchasing pub
lie had dscouraging tendency so far as
our farmers were concerned. Residents
simply ordered their meat products in q
way most convenient and, as they sup
posed, most economical for themselves
and when the Vermont farmer appeared
in market with any kind of meat for sale
, he found himself frozen out In not a few
; instances by the retail men, who in turr
we're in the hands of the beef trust. A
, few lessons of this character soon served
to convince large part of our farmers
that it was useless to try TO compete il
) Now, however, both the retail dealers
! and the consumers of meat products arr
thoroughly alive to the deslrabiity o
= encouraging the home production o
: meat, and the present lesson is not likel,
0 to be soon forgotten.
This leads to the consideration of an
other influence against which the bee
trust will be forced hereafter to contend
The trust has educated consumers a
h well as Eastern farmers to appreciate
k the power as well as the desirability o
Q combination to protect and promote thei