Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-20
FARMERS AND TRUS
3Ae Iowa Granke Demands Re.
 Prom the "RObbeF" Packers.

Prom the "Robber" Packers.
 That the prosecution of the meat trust by the president through his at torney general was all buncombe and has had no effect upon its extoctionS from the farmers or the consumers has long been evident The price of meat Is still far above what it should be. considering the price paid by the trust for live stock. While the butchers have reduced the price of meat some what from the highest point, the price of cattle and hogs has declined in vast ly greater proportion. The Iowa grange beef trust and it's monopoly of both the wholesale and retail markets and the collusion between the trust and the railroads President A. E. Judson of Hillsdale, addressing the meeting Of the Iowa grangers, said:
 Instead of suppIr and demand con trolling the market we have the meat combine and the packers trust, which have the credit of fixing the price of live stock every afternoon for the next day, thereby shutting off all competl- ton. decreasing the ability of the con sumers to buy by keeping up the prices and crippling the ability of the farmer to sell by forcing down the price Of farm products.
 What will be the inevitable result of this system of highway robbery How long will the Iowa farmers sub init to this outrageous system Df stand md InIf comes from the packers?"
 The Iowa grangers and their brother farmers, those of them who gre Re publicans. have only themselves tt thank for the exactions of the packers trust. The bond between the Republic an leaders and the trusts Is patent te every one who cares to investigate The legislation against the trusts by the Republican congress WAS not in tended to suppress the trusts or stay their exactions.
 The demand by the people of the Unit ed States that laws be passed to curt the trusts was too strong for even g Republican congress to ignore. Some thing had to be done. and new but use less legislation was enacted. The Re publican leaders knew that the old an thrust law was sufficient If enforced to bring the most powerful combine tc time. It provides that monopolists car be fined and imprisoned One trust magnate in jail would soon bring the whole brood to their knees begging for pardon. President Roosevelt instead of enforcing the law begged the ques ton by recommending congress to pas, law compelling publicity of trus' transactions as his panacea for trust ills
 The Republican leaders in congress few leaders control all legislatio ! jumped at the recommendation of the president and passed the law giving l the new department of commerce and | labor the same power to investigate i trusts as the interstate commerce com mission has to investigate railroads . There may be some merit in publicity but so far no results have been uc complished, and the doings of no trus: , have been exposed to the public gaze. i The attorney general. under the stress | of antitrust feeling, commenced pre- ceedings under the civil end of the old law against the packers trust and pro ' cured an injunction from the United States court of Illinois ordering the beef trust from combining to control ! the market.
 The worthlessness of this proceeding
 is apparent from the complaint of the
 Iowa grangers. The present attorney
 general was attorney for the Carnegie
 Steel corporation and will without doubt be given trust employment when
 his term of office expires. That may
 account for his delicate manner of pro -eeding against the illegal trusts and combinations. But first and last the ! president is to blame in this matter i He appointed Mir. Knox and can re
 move him at pleasure. A hint from
 President Roosevelt would cause Mr
 Knox to resign, and he could appoint
 in his place another attorney who real ly believes in preventing combinations
 from raising and lowering prices.