The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-10-28
John W. Kern Shows That Meat
Trust Is Contracting 10 De-
liver $3.50 Hogs Soon.
PRICE FIXED -MAY--AAEAD
Democratic Nominee For u. S. Sen.
ate Warns People OF Plan 81
Big Republican frost.
t6y Guernsey Van Rper)

oi inoisAh SON ething 10 think about
Could anything be more autocratic
or domineering. than this attitude OF
the. meat trusti The Indiana farmer
II now getting 50 and more for his
hogs. As soon ~ the election Is over
no VIII set 80 80. How does the farmer
like the prospectl This is The result
OF tho trust system. built up by the
Republican party.
! Tow pay IS to 81 cents a pound
Tor the bacon that eat said Mr..
Kern. and so do all OF YOU As ror
porterhouse steak. that is out OF the
question What want to show you is
) thai the packers have the power 10 fix
absolutely fte price they get and pay.
They may pay 9 cents 10 you fsrtners.
but every cent additional they pay to
you they add 10 the price they get.
That's foE-,he bacon alone. They take
the hogs and they ntilize every part.
but the other parts are only the by
products. the spending money Oft
packers II shows the power OF these
men TO monopollze trade until the
laws u supply and demand. which you
farmers mink control the market.
have no-6ing at all 10 do with 1t.
Set Price In Advances.
"A few months ago the price OF hogs
Kept rising until II reached Gil, and
then It was set at sic and at 50 and az
20. But now these psckeEs are making
contracts TO their big consumers for
delivery next January on the basis of
a $3.50 rlarkey Ia chicago. They are
setting the price months ahead at
their own wilt wnyf Because the
meat trust has the power to dictate
prices 90 thai II can raise bacon to 80
cents or lorer Il to 10 cents Q pound
II II so desirsa-
Dir Roosevelt see after this monop-
oily whom he va n ofscs7 Surely he
did somsthfns the same he did to
the steel trust In the Tc1nessss iron
merger' me government aid get IN
injunction from -Isdgs Crosscup
against the pactsrs. eajoinins them
from fixing prisss- The supreme
court OF the unNsd SKATES a1nrnsd
thh h5snotion- But What came OF ST.
The Daoksss paid no attention 70 II.
~ ~ Q minute dSd they care They
SGdShsd o. II.
Who're was Rssssvslt'
-Ane whsye vas Roosevelt then. A
ntos piece Of paper from him calling
attention 10 the injunction would have
sent these men 20 Jah Bot instead
thers followed the Immunity baths
under Judge Humphreys. Roosevelt
would not let them prosecute the In
disiduais. When his friend Paul
Morton game up in the rebate inves-
tigs.on be said Hands otf!' and they
Jet him 90. You can't send a corpora
ton TO the stone pile.
Then Roosevelt said. We must get
after the oorporstions.' and they fined
the Railroads and the oil trust, and the
poor devil OF Q public paid the fine
They fined the Standard Oil Company
t2s.ooe.ooo and n the nne had held
good al that the trust would have
needed to do would have been 70 add
q cent. Or. two to the price Of the oil
the public buys.
That 10 what the meat trust doee
what assss-St- losss- sa-ons- purchase
price 10 more than made up on an.
oyher and they all are doing business
at the ssms old stand y would, put
these malefacters OF great wealth N
prison the same a. the lowest Grim
inal IN the land. Only would make
the stripes broader for those who
plumber the people. Put one maGnatel
in fail for one week and you will see
the trusts DISSOLVE A. they never have
dissolved or ever will under present
methods. And on THIS my friend Sen
ator Beverage and differ"
TIA True. Says the News.
Commenting editorially on Mr.
Kern's speech the Indianapolis News
Says: r"vf'n ~ "a~@
AS Mr. Kern says the packers are
for the January dafvery OF hogs at
$3.50. This means that after the cleo
ton prices will be much lower than
they are now. Will be what the packers
make them. ~ $50
Now the question 10 not simply one
OF tho pnce OF any given commodity.
but rather one Of permitting vast
power TO be lodged I'm the hands OF
few mem Under such conditions In.
dustry 10 subjected TO . control that
goes far to null'fy the operation OF the
natural forces that ought to regulate
Il. We. heve...to sconsider further
whether = fysteui OF artincially made
prices 10 q safe foundation on which to
base our commercial prosperity. IL II
well TO allow men to nx both their
buying and selling price. or to create
situation which permits them to do
this, even in part? Undoubtedly the
aim of the mopopolists is to do sust
that thing. The fact that they may
not always be able to accomplish thsu
.