The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-26
BR|TONS FACING
A MEAT ANIME
Prices Have Gone SO High as
to Be Beyond Reach Of
Poor.
BEEF is HIGHER THAN
FOR THIRTY YEARS PAST
Butter, Cheese and Eggs Have
Also Scared Away Out
of Sight.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.
to The Tribune.

BY PAUL LAMBETH.
Special Cable to The Tribune
LONDON, June 25.-England Is facing
a meat famine. Already the prices of
all kinds OF meat have gone so high that
IL is beyond the reach OF the poorer
classes. and there is no relief in sight,
Beef is higher than II has been in moro
than thirty years, while American bacon
is shlllings n hundredweight higher
Than the highest price provided In the
cablo code used by the provision mar
ket. When the code was framed no one
dreamed of price higher than rs shil-
hngs hundredweight. American "long-
cut hams are now 81 shillings, and the
shortcut are IS shillings.
Not only meat, but butter cheese and
eggs have gone out of sight So serious
mas the situation become that the Ma
tiohai Federation Meat Traders associa-
lions has issued a warning that unless q
fresh source OF supply is tapped meat
VIII be proMbitiVe 10 the poorer classes.
The announcement says: I'm view OF
the greatly increased price of all descrip-
lions OF meat, both British produced and
imported. TO the retailer. owing TO the
short supplies of cattle with the largely
reduced arrivals OF livestock from the
United States and Canada, the National
Federation of Meat Traders associations
lincorporated) finds 1t necessary TO in
form the public that retail butchers win
be compelled TO put up prices all around.
There arc no indications that meat will
be cheaper for some time to come, the
sources OF supply having been so serl-
ously depleted"
Shortage of Supplies
Summarized, the position may be put
as follows, The crisis has been caused
by shortage of supplies of live cattle
from Canada and the United States and
OF chilled beef from the states. During
tho past twelve months the wholesale
price OF beef has risen In some cases by
London the butchers have not been able
10 increase the retail prices because the
people would not pay them. Butchers
In poor neishborhoods have been trad
TO close their establishments altogether
1t is believed that a further increase up
to Sd pound will be decided upon.
Many people are taking to vegetarian
diet rather than pay excessive prices for
meat.
What Meat Trader Says.
Giving an explanation of the rise. Al
derman Lindsey the president of the
National Federation OF Meat Traders as
sociations. said: Tor several weeks
past the demand for meat has largely cx.
cceded the supply. We arc getting very
few bullocks from North America. be-
cause they have very few TO send: -Four
years ago we received 5000 or 5000 a
week. We are scarcely getting a thou
sand nov. | do not think the price Of
American bullocks has ever been so high.
English supplies also arc short and dear"
II has long been felt by those who
have special means OF obtaining infor-
nation that unless some fresh sources
Of supply can be tapped the prices Of
higher that, as an article of food, IL will
become almost prohibitivc to the work
Ing classes, whose purchasing power is
certainly becoming less.
ha ,hoJ
not only by those directly interested in
the meat trade. but by most of the cor
porations OF the large provincial towns.
and also by quite a number of the metro
polltan boroughs. to receive a deputation
In order to personally urge the removal
of the existing embargo which prevents
the landing Of live cattle from the Ar
scntinc at our foreign animals wharvcs
What Facts Are.
Up to the present the government has
not even granted those who arc in a
position TO give valuable information an
opportunity OF expressing their views. To |
day we arc met with this fact: That tho
number of live animals imported for food
is reduced almost to vanishing point. We
rely principally upon the United States
for our best supplies of summer cattle,
In America they are past masters In the
art OF keeping back what Is wanted un-
Ill IL commands the very best prices, and
they are doing something, of the klnu
now. There Is splendid working ar
rangement among the American exporters.
With regard 10 the Argentine supplies,
the meat has TO be brought across the
equator, and therefore has 30 be frozen
so very hard that its nutritive properties
are diminished, Consequently this source
Of supply does not help So much as II
would were the Argentine cattle allowed
10 come alive as they used to. There
has been a decrease OF over 80. 900 bull |
locks up TO May II Of the. present year,
as compared with last years supply from
North America"
BRYAN Rebukes Roosevelt.
William j Bryan. The noted American
lecturer and politician who Is in Eng
land to attend the worlds missionary
conference delivered quiet rcbukc 10
his distinguished compatrlot. former
President Roosevelt in a speech he de-
livered al Bradford the other day. Mr.:
discuss the politics of the country which
he visited. because. as All outsider. he
not sufficiently informed to enable
him TO discuss those conditions with In
telligencc In the second place. when
he visited a foreign land he was the
guest Of the people Of that land, and
men; for hospitality to engage in the
discussion of controversial subjects which
those who entertained him understood
better than he did, There was, he said,
great improvement in political ideals.
both In America and other countries OF
the world. The consclcnces OF tho people
OF the world were becoming more sensi-
tive 10 wrong and ardent In their dc
mand for purity in politics, The nation
wns greatest which did the most good
in the world, and he rejoiced to find that
the two nations which were doing most
for missionary work were America and
Great Britain. No less than six -seyenths
OF the money contributed for missionary
enterprises came from those Two coun-
| tries, and they gave equally
Cotton Spinners Skeptical.
Cotton spinncrs in Manchester are very
| skcpticaI about the latest scheme from
across the Atlantic for combining bust
| ness and philanthropy In dealing with
| speculation in cotton. They are regard
| ing the suggestion that. with c9pitaJ
| of SIC, 900 900, q company can establish
| huge chain Of warehouses In the, cotton
bet OF the United States In which can ,
| be stored cotton sufficient TO meet tne
more with amusement, Manchester, spin
ners incline 10 the view that, though
| there may be- and no doubt VIII be- et-
/ sN,.I.t L. M ninulute next wears crop. the