Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-06-21

foregoing clipping, and the daily
robbery of the tariff law, are, in
street vernacular, among the
noblest suckers of this green globe.
Why, Europeans are overreaching
us and laughing at US, while tick
ling our fancied business capacity
by calling US those cute Ameri-
cans,' but the quality of astute-
ness, if we ever had any, certainly
does not appear characteristic of
the nation to-day. Our best meats
are purchasable by aliens in
foreign markets for less than we
give for the tainted stuff, described
by the specialists in Kansas City.
Nor is food the only medium of
fraud against the American peo-
pie. Their clothing, their build
ing material, their implements, in
fact nearly everything that is
turned out by the American manu-
facturer is offered in its best
quality to the foreigner at a price
less than the home man is forced
to pay for the inferior grade.
When we, possessing the power to
put an end to such conditions, per-
nit them to exist, is it not ques-
tionable whether we are possessed
even OF common sense? We SUBJ
nit to a levy, a robbery, which
strips Jul home people for the
purpose OF cheapening essential
articles to strangers and aliens.
We protect the health of foreign
ers most vigorously from impure
ties in food prepared in this coun-
try, and turn to the trough and
eat up the rotten scraps ourselves,
Honestly, is such conduct con-
, sistent with sanity? Is it not
enough to condemn us either as q
nation of dupes or as being mon
:. compos mentis in u international
business transactions?"
Upton Sinclair, in his book
Q "The Jungle" describes ever
. worse transactions in the Chicago
u stock yards, and it's said that tn,
President was so worked up owe
the book that he, after sitting u,
all night to read it, thought t
. make it the center of his ''muc
rake" speech, and even sent
. commission to Chicago to investi
gate it's charges. And it is furthe
:. said that the report of this com
. mission will not be made publ
10 because the innocent might be in
o jured thereby (?) Can any or
10 doubt that if the report woul
vindicate the packers that it woul
have been published?
W What is the remedy for this b.
II the public ownership of the pacl
lo ing houses? Would the publ
&C. feed itself on tainted or rotte
meats? Would the packers do
if there was no profit in the bus
w ness? If these packers were po'
y, they would be wearing prise
81 stripes. But since they are rit
III they not only stay out of priso
u but are able to keep the report
a commission, appointed by tt
10 President, from the meat eatir
public. How can we hope to col
is troll these gigantic interests viii
NC left in private hands? Han
lao powerful enough to enforce silen
Ito even in the White House, und
do the very nose ofthe strenuous or
las The public should own what it
forced to use; otherwise o
Il boosted freedom is a farce. B
"s you might say that the public dol
have to use the packing plants.
lu maintain that they do; they, t
'@i packers have killed out all t
7i' small plants and have even fore
a. the butchers all over the count
a. to buy their meats. They ha
U.s. done this in order to force t
oe public to buy their products, a
'ne now they seem to think they ha
" a right to kill off the Americ
people by slow poisoning. A
Oh, when the people seek redress tn
find their courts and legislatul
IL" "fxed." The people, the publ
om should own the packing busint
IL and forever put a stop to t
Jus wholesale poisoning. For if
present set of packers were i
prisoned for life and the busin'
allowed to continue in priv
hands, no good would result,
his every one knows that the pack
Z, l are not the only dishonest m
I'd engaged in business in this mu
%trust-ridden country.
Is F. P. H1LBURN
k
we Aduion RI Tpa vaIepc '