Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-23
Members Of Twenty-0ne Lodges Will
Eat Meat but Once a Day.
sTooKMEN GETTING THE MONEY
Farm Paper Says Last Years Animal
Crop Broke All Records.
GAIN OF OVER HALF BILLION
The Increase I'm Value of Live stock
sold in 1000 Amounted 10 $780,
OOO,OOO-RetaiIers Also
Blamed.

CHICAGO Jan 22.- nile the movement
TO combat the high price Of food continued
its spread there is little indication of a
decrease in the price Of meat. Milwaukee,
which reported a big decrease in the prices
quoted by two butchers, yesterday showed
a general reduction in many places. None
of the other cities In which the movement
has been started, reported any reduction,
however.
The most natabe acquisition to the
ranks of the anti-meat cause came from
Louisville. where 'twenty-one lodges Of a
frRternal organization adopted resolutions
that all members refrian from eating
meat more than once a day during Feb
Tuary The Womens Trade Union league
and the Building Trades council of st.
Louis announced today that they would
take action against the high price Of meat
next wesk.
indianapolis ST. Paul and Toledo reported
that the attempts to launch a crusade
against prevailing high prices in those
cities had so far failed. From st. Paul
came the report that Labor Commissioner
McEwan had made the statement that
the inhabitants of Minnesota were too
prosperous to feel the effects of high
prices.
stoclSmen Get the Money.
Apropos of the movement, the Orange
Judd Farmer makes the statement that
1909 was the most prosperous year ever
known in the live stock industry, ac-
cording to the annual census review of
farm stock.
The total value of all classes of live
stock in the country on January l. 1910
was =. $50, ,O0S, 600. says that periodical. The
increase during 1909 was the greatest ever
recorded in twelve months, amounting to
s56OOOO O0o
There Is an increase in the numbers of
all classes of animals except beef cattle
and hogs, showing an Increase in numbers
and heavy advance in average values
per head ut the same time. Cattle, other
than milch cows, total 49, 700 head, worth
on an, average Of s2O.7e each The number
OF sheep is increasing rapidly and now
stands 54,726O00. worth $LG7 each. Hogs
showed marked decline in numbers,
reaching only A,066OOO, but the price per
head Ss.15, is the highest ON record. With
the exception OF beef cattle, every class of
animals showed the highest average price
ever recorded"
Antf-Meat Clubs Formed.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 22.-It is expected
that the anti-meat eating sentiment will
receive a great impetus in this city to-
morrow when the Industrial Trades council
with 5000 members, will meet and take
action on the subject.
Many societies not affiliated with or
gAnized labor and scores of individual
families have Joined the ranks here. Anti
meat" clubs haev been formed and there is
little doubt that 10000 persons will have
enlisted in the movement by the end of
next week.
Walters in restaurants state that many
patrons are refraning from ordering meat
since the crusade began.
Asked today If the meat boycott had af-
fected the market, Charles Hodge local
manager of the Armour Packing company.
said:
MOT to my knowledge. know nothing
of this matter except what 1 have read
In the press dispatches.
"Of course the crusade will have an ef-
feet ON prices If 1t continues to spread"
SIX Hundred thousand MeatIess.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan 22.-The employees
OF seven OF Greater Pittsburgs largest in
dustries today enrolled themselves as anti
meat crusaders. one hundred and twenty
five thousand men in Allegheny county
have now pledged themselves to abstain
from meat Five per cent Of this number
roughly estimated 10000 people who have
entered the fight against high prices for
foodsuffs.
Fight in New York.
NEW YORK. Jan. 22.-The fight for
cheaper meat waxed hotter in New York
today. Pledges to abstain from meat eating
Tor thirty days or more were extensively
circulated and signed. and the indications
Were that the movement. although slower
IN getting foothold here than in many
cities, will reach impressive proportions in
metropolitan territory.
Formal action by many organized bodies
Is expected to follow the general trend
among families to cut down their meat
eonsumption-a movement said already to
nave reduced sales at the retail shops 80
per cent
Women are taking the lead In the local
Middlemen Are Blamed.
agitation DEs MONIES, Jan. 22.-(speciaI
Telegfan.)-A start was made here today
10 organization OF an anti-meat eating club
the members OF which pledge themselves to
abstain for thirty days from eating any
form OF meat as a rebuke TO those who are
supposed to make meat prices high Mem
bera OF the city council and other promi- !
, nent persons Immediately Joined and the
work was well started. A local paper also
presented what purports 10 be an accurate
presentation OF the facts in regard to meat
prices and shows that the meat from an
animal which has brought the farmer $40
Is sold 70 the consumer so that Il costs
him Ne.75, the difference representing
largely the profit to the retailer and his
cost OF sending the meat TO the kitchen.
MHson Wtn Make Autos.
DES MONIES. Jan. 92-Edward r.
Mason, who has been clerk In the United
kates circuit courts Cor the southern