The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-22
RUSSELL TAKES ISSUE WITH GARFIELD

RUSSELL
Although the Beef Trust is dripping from the
whitewash given it by Commissioner of Corpora
Garfield Edward Russell continues his series
Everybodys Magazine what he calls THE
Greatest Trust World" In the June number Mr..
Russell will with Garfelds report and show the
amazing contains, and explain the subtle
farreachng political pulls" of this rapacous
combination that enable it to influence even the official
reports government officers.
In May number Mr. Russell relates the startling
story operations in the cattle markets
and the cattle industry of the West He shows
how the destruction of competitive buying impoverished
farmers, cattlerasers banks into Hquida
ton suicide. He tells how the trust inflicted
losses estimated at 100000 $1O,OOOOOO
South Dakota how the markets manipulated and
controlled profits farmer found himself
al the mercy of cruel and greedy monopoly.
AS example of how the trust manipulates the mar
kets, this story is told:
Monday, February 1905, Chicago receipts of
light against $4,000 the previous
Saturday This afforded the exact situation that best
suits trust They make prices they
please they put up price hogs 25 cents hun
dredweight the offerings light their purchases
at the high figure few. AS the advanced
price had been widely e1egraphed great rush of hogs
started from all directions On Wednesday they
rived Immediately the put the price down to Is
cents lower than Mondays opening figures and at this
rate bought immense droves with which they proceeded
to fill their cellars
A Nebraska or Kansas cate-feeder type of a sturdy
intelligent, patriotic American citizenship is taken
example of the ruin wrought by the Beef Trust in once
prosperous industry.
young begun life prairies
morgaging o a home he wife
ing years get foothold. cate-feeding =
and brought last the ong-hoped-for opportunity. He
could calculate this with The cattle
much to feed them six months would cost much
in Kansas City Omaha they would bring about much
80 he went into cattlefeeding And at last he lifted
that old mortgage that had been load and blight
him the best part of his life the time tasted
prosperity-and the novel
For six years the goodness of the harvest
endured for him, and then ne began notice change
1t in 1901 and thereafter that thought of it,
He had been when he took his City
or Chicago. to chatter with after another of horde
of buyers And he discovered that the buyers had
strangely disappeared He stood by his from O'Clock
until there only representa-
tive along indifferently
price at his head and it always 1ow he met the
buyers for Swift Norris the National
their offer always exactly the Armours
had been, exactly the made entire
market
refused to accept the one bid and held
the cattle feeding them at heavy COST day
same farce repeated-except that the
was less by cents hundredwegnt Overnight cattle
had become stale If held another day. the
mysteriousy made price again reduced cents;
so He could sell at the price could
take his cattle
And if he sold, ne could watch his cattle
driven up the different driveways the different
The representative of hidden them: all
the houses shared them. This why there was no
petitive bidding. One really bought for ALL"
1t is plain from the showing made by Mr. Russell that
Commissioner Garfield badly by the Beef
Trust magnates in mis- investigation methods 1t
is wonder that the strenuous Roosevelt did not send
Garfield back to make further investigation. Instead
Garfield is probing into the STANDARD
Oil Trust spent great of his time in the
offices of the Standard Oil in those of it's ally
re railroad would not be surprising
standard Oil would be mucn of Whtewash as
his report the Beef Trust Garfield junior been
tenderly reared in the lap luxury provided by gen
nation hardly expected that he would