Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-01-13
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. 1910.
MORE ABOUT MEAT.


MORE ABOUT MEAT.
c. M. White, a Saline county farm
or, writes the following to the SalinI
Journal regarding Senator Bristow'
remarkable interview on meat prices
showing how far Bristow is from thu
facts:
/ was considerably interested II
the article In the Journal taken from
the interview with Senator BristoW
and headed, 1.-THE Cost of Living
This is something we are all more OF
less interested In and anything the
junior senator from this common
wealth has to say on the subject ia
entitled 10 attention.
In the interview the senator seem
60 place the blame" for the pre-
vailing high prices Of table supplies
on Combinations Control Of
prices" packers combine" rail-
roads" and so forth.
TO illustrate his contention the
senator instanced that cattle had
been shipped four times across the
state Of Kansas, the accumulated eI-
pense being charged up to the con-
sumer Of the beef, inferring at least
that the packers and railroads"
were at fault for this alleged unbusi-
ness-like transaction.
Now, as, matter of fact what did
the packers" and railroads"
have to do with that transaction?
Did the packers" or railroads"
have anything to do with the ship
ment Of that bunch of cattle from a
point Just west OF US on the Lincoln
branch that Immediately after being
shipped to Kansas City, was return
ed to the point from which they were
shipped for further feeding, as noted
In the news columns of the Journal
q few days since?
Is 1t not fact that this shipping
OF cattle from pasture to market,
lack to feed lot, back to market, and
t. feed lot again is any every day
Part of the cattle businessH Ask
any we'll informed cattle man. The
market price Of beef has little or
nothing to do with these transac-
tlons, they occur under all prices,
and the business has been SO prac-
ticed ever since the cattle industry
started in this country, and there are
good and sufficient reasons for 1t.
Now as to poultry and butter and
Eggs In cold storage:
What do we need to do with this
business? Cut It out? Before cold
storage was possible we made q
great howl because there was no
summer market for these perish
lbles; III we had place to keep
hem prices would not run so low
Turing the producing season." and
10 on. Now, we seem to be crying
because we have them. Suppose we
lad no cold storage eggs at present.
would we be better off. Would the
,rice Of eggs be lower? The senator
8 quoted as saying. that within his
recollection when beef was at $500
'er cwt. the best cuts sold for 16 and
q cents the pounds, now they are
q and "a cents the pound" Where
re they this last quoted price? Not
a salina. ,
What is serious Potentially of !
The Tariff" What has the
tariff to do with the average citi-
en- Of Salina? At what point does
touch himl Only yesterday l heard
big, fine looking (although that
oint has not much to do with the
tory) farmer say, We'll, We are
avlng our innings now, everything
Te have to sell is high and we are
ceiling pretty good" What is the /,
natter with that farmer3 AnythIngi
can give you his name II you
lant It. nor were the words address,
a to me, but to the manager Of Que
{ our big mills.
This is q republican scrap In re-
ublican camp and may the best man
lin.
Occasionally II looks to the under
lgned &c II central had given SEN
tor BristOV the wrong number.
0. n. WHITE.
TIE Insurgents seem somewhat dis
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