Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29
CREAMERY MEN ON QUI WYE
A~nxiously Await Decision in Cream
Rate Controversy.
VITAL TO DAIRY INTERESTS
Henry wallace of Des MOines Finds
Fault with Farmers for LeaV-
Ing Farms and Going
to cities,
VITAL TO DAIRY INTERESTS
dFrom a staff Correspondent

Creamery and dairy men of Iowa are wait
ing for the decision of the Interstate Com
merce commission in regard to the lower
rate on cream asked by the big central
lied creamery plants. The hearing on the
case before the commission was held in
Chicago a few days ago and II is claimed
that the hearing constituted the first chap
ter in what promises to be a fight to the
death between the big and little creameries.
Inasmuch as the fight is one that vitality
concerns the farmer who is the producer
Of the cream, and inasmuch as Iowa IL a
dairy state and one Of the big dairy states
Of the country the question is one of alb
sorbing interest. Furthermore the conser-
walton of the fertility Of the soil is con-
cerned, for the keeping of cows is one Of
the most sure methods Of keeping the soil
fertile.
The Chicago Dairy Produce says: with
the closing of the hearing Of the cream rate
case in this city last week ended the first
chapter of probably one OF the most sem
satlonal and unique hearings ever held In
this or any other country. 1t is not often
that those who are interested In the same
industry and who should be interested In
promoting and protecting that industry are
arrayed against each other in what might
be called a life and death struggle, yet
this comes pretty near describing the stu
alton existing today between the co-opera-
tive and centralizing creameries. and no
man can look far enough into the future
to tell what the outcome will be-"
Big and Little May Live.
This paper believes that 1t would be pos
sible for the big and little to
do business in the country together, the big
creameries combining their attention to those
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tered and no other system can work. 1t
is claimed that the hearing at Chicago
had the result Of getting the little creamer-
les OF the country together and thus their
stand against the big creameries will be all
the more determined.
While the creamery men of the country
are thus engaged in a bitter fight, the
farmers, who are the real producers and
most vitality concerned, are not represented
except that the Interstate com
mission insisted on hearing all evidence
that would tend to show the interest OF
the farmer. But the fight that is going on
between the big and little creamery men of
the state is not going to be of particular
! benefit to the farmer or dairyman.
Difference is Marked.
The line of demarkation between the big
and little creameries is very distinct. The
little creamery has all its cream brought in
by team and wagon. The big creamery
has practically all its cream shipped in by
rail, though some from the immediate
community may be hauled in. The interests
Of the two concerns are therefore very
vital the minute the big plant lnvades the
territory of the little fellow, and are i'm
portant all the time. The little plant wants
the freight rates high because the big plant
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big plant wants the rates low so he can
compete with the little fellow. The sym
pathies of most of the dairymen seem to
be with the little creameries, because it is
claimed they are able to make better but
ter out of cream that is brought in by
wagon than can the big concerns make
out of that which Is shipped in by rail, and
because. furthermore, the little creamery
can afford to pay higher prices for the
cream. Where the big plant gets in ahead
is in having such resources that it can pay
a higher price than the market warrants
IN the community of a little creamery till
it drives the little fellow out of business,
and then lowering prices.
wallace BIames he
Henry Wallace oil this city, VINO is one
of the members of President RooseVelt's
commission to study farm life, scores the
farmer for not staying on the farm, but
proposes that the farmers themselves be
heard on the matter at the National Corn
| exposition at Omaha. Mr.. Wallace is pre-
: pairing to go to Philadelphia for the first
meeting OF the commission and says that
he will there take the position that the
habit of farmers to retire to the city for
the benefit of the city schools for their
children, while they let the country schools
,,t.oCval, 10 tIa main tronbIa with thp
whole business.
Their are eighty-one schools in Iowa
that have but three pupils each" said Mr..
Wallace today. The farmers have taken
! their children and gone to town to live
and rented the farms, Forty per cent of
our farms are run by renters.'
Mr.. Wallace takes the position that the
farmer should remain on the farm when
he reaches the age of retiring and devote
his attention to breeding stock and grain,
experimenting to make better breeds. lie
also takes the position that there should
be more society on the farm. just as there
is in town, He believes these ideas, il
followed out, would solve the farm prob
lem,
Mrs. Max steinfeldr Of 100 East Walnut
street, took poison and killed herself in
an attempt to scare her husband. The
~neighbors say that she told them she was
going to give her husband a good scare,
so that he would not quarrel with her any
more. They-are confident that she did not
intend to kill herself. She swallowed four
small bottles OF a catarrhal powder that
was two and a half per cent cocaine.
Steinfeldt Is a saloonkeeper and acts as
Interpreter in Austrian and Hugarian cases.
Citizens on the Burlington railroad, from
Creston to Des Moines, will meet in this
city at the Slavery hotel, Monday after
noon. with officials of the Burlington and
representatives of the Commercial clubs
u the various cities in the hope Of arrang-
ing some amicable settlement Of the con-
troversy for better railroad facilities TO
the southwest part OF the state. The pat
rons of the road claim that 1t takes two
to three days to come TO Des Moines and
get back again and that they are forced
to use stage lines TO other roads in order
to make their business trips. They hope
10 be able to impress the Burlington Of
hcials with the necessity for better train
service, The Burlington will be repre-
scented by General Manager Ward, Traffic
Agent Eustis and Attorney w. d. Eaton.
George L. Dobson, ex-secretary Of the
state OF Iowa, who helped carry Missouri