The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-04-02

has managed to monopolize the Amer
lean market, has been halted in it's
effort to control the London market
mainly by competition made possible
by the lack of tariff restrictions in
England, is the statement made by j.
! Martin Miller, former United States
consul to France and Germany, upon
his return from Great Britain.
While in London, Mr.. Miller got in
close touch with the meat situation.
Admission was made to him by Amer
lean beef trust managers that on ac-
count of competition, due to free trade,
| they are selling American beef in Lon
don from 20 to 25 per cent less than
! in the United States, and after pay
| ing transportation on the live cattle
from the western part of the United
States to England. No wonder that
Armour & Co. was able to reap a
profit of IS per cent on it's American
business last year, as was revealed in
a statement submitted in connection
| with the issuing of a bond issue Of
| $50, O0O, 900 on the New York stock ex-
| change
| When the item of $237.66 for shoe
ing the horses of the state depart
ment during the year 1909 came up on
| the floor of the House, Minority Lead
err Champ Clark and Courtney W..
.Hamlin of Missouri registered kicks
The item referred to the shoeing Of
four animals, except during a period
of less than three months, when the
number was six. Clark and Hamlin
declared they could keep four horses
shod in Missouri for a whole lot less
than s23766. you have got to take
all these smaller items, as well as the
larger items, or you will never have
any kind of economy in this house.
The state department used $4,000 to
keep up a stable of four horses, and
the proposition is fairly ridiculous"
However, $4,000 was allowed for MAIN
tanning the state department stables,
which are practically useless owing
to the fact the department officials in
variably use automobiles for the COM
ing year.
The United States Senate cost the
country 1880, 999s9 simply for main
tenance and current expenses during
the last year. according to the annual
report Of the secretary of the Senate
which was recently published.
Among the things required to keep
the wheels of Congress on the Senate
side grinding the report shows one
dozen bottles of vaseline, one quart of
castor oil, one quart of olive oil, one
dozen packages of bromo- quinine,
s121.40 worth of certain high grade
of glycerine soap, one dozen quart
bottles of hair tonic, generous as
sortment of cologne and other costly
perfumes. glycerine, bergamot, nail
brushes and over 500 worth Of
clothes brushes. The bill for apolli-
naris water amounts to $2,637.66.
The difference in the cost of living
In the United States and Canada, and
the increased prices in this country
since the passage of the Payne-A
drich bill, were practically the sole
points raised by Foss, Democrat, in his
tariff speeches in the Fourteenth Mas
sachusetts district, where a Republic
can majority of 14,25O in 1908 was
converted into Il Democratic majority
of 5,640. The fact that prices of food
stuffs, wearing apparel and rents aver
age from 20 to 80 per cent more in
Detroit than just across the river in
Windsor, Canada was cited by Foss,
and his protectionist opponent was
unable to satisfy the people that the
Aldrich-Taft policy of excessive pro-
lection was not to blame for the con-
trast. Senator Lodge was called into
the campaign, but he too, failed utter
ly in his attempt to disprove the ar
gument Of Foss. The Democratic can
didate showed that the contrast in the
cost of living In Detroit and Windsor
was not an exception, but the general
rule between protective and free trade
countries. He cited comparative prices
in Montreal, st. John, New Brunswick,
and Boston, easily disproving the al
legation that the ever-increasing prices
in the United States are merely in
keeping with worldwide movement.
Indications multiply that President
Taft and the reactionary supporters of
the administration in House and
Senate regard conflict with former
President Roosevelt and his support
ers inevitable, and are therefore pre-