The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-24
One Man Saturday Afternoon
Secured Five Hundred Sig-
natures in North End Shops
And on Streets.
THIS ACCOMPLISHED
IN JUST HALLIDAY
It Is Expected That by This
Evening, When Mans Cam
paign Ends, He Will Have
1000 Signers on List.

If you're stopped on the street and
asked to sign a petition agreeing to
abstain from the use of meat for a pc
riod of thirty days, don's be surprised
for it is only an evidence of the siren
nOus campaign that is being waged in
this city against the eXOrbitant price
of meats and an indication that the
meat boycott has become a stern reali-
ty in Richmond
This morning a man, who asked that
his name be withheld. entered the
Palladium office and stated that he
was making an active canvass among
the shops and persons whom he chanc.
cd to meet on the street, for the p,ir
pose OF getting the men to sign peti
ton favoring the boycott. He showed
the list of signatures. The man is a
shop employee, but was recently in
jured and was forced to lay off for 4
few days. Not wishing to remain idle
and being an ardent supporter of the
meat boycott, he is endeavOring to
bring this about by circulating a peti-
ton to the effect that the signers will
agree to give up meat eating for pc
esSary.'
Is Working Again Today.
Saturday afternoon by visiting only
a few shops in the north end and by
stopping persons on the street. he OBJ
tained about 500 signatures to the pc
tition. He declared that he was going
to visit other shops in the north end
today and that by night he expected to
have fully a thousand names on the
list. The instigatOr of the local meat
boycott stated that he had expected
to go to work tomorrow, but that if he
were unable to do SO, he would con
tinue his campaign and was confident
that by the end of the week he could
have 5000 signatures of persons agree
ing to turn vegetarians for a few
weeks. He stated that there was nc
reason why the boycott would not
prove success if enough persons
could be induced to abide by the con
tract. He declared that if people would
do without meat for thirty days the
price would necessarily have to be low
cred and it is to this end that he is
working.
No difficulty whatever is experienc
ed. he said, in getting people to sign
the petition. All of them seem anx
ious to sign, believing it to be the only
logical method to establish cheaper
prices in meats. The man asserted
that one shop, on learning that he was
circulating a petition to form boy
colt, requested that he visit that fac
tory and get the signatures of the men
employed there.
Butchers are Confident.
The butchers of the city however dc
not seem to be much alarmed over
the prospects of a local boycott on
their business. They declare that it is
impractical and that unless the move
ment becomes general it will do nc
good whatever toward lowering the
price of meats. They assert that they
have no power to name the price
that the matter is in the hands of the
trust, and when the butchers them
selves are compelled to pay an ex
horbitant price they cannot afford to
retail the meat below that price with
out heavy loss. I'VE are not in the
business for pleasure" said one butch
er. Il would like to see the price OF
meats lowered myself, because il
would mean more business for u.s. We
butchers are perfectly willing to suf
fer boycott. providing it does any
good, but there has to be some sys
tenn to 1t and boycott in spots oveI
the country will be time wasted"