New-York tribune., 1910-01-25
MEATB0YC0TT HERE
SIXTY DAYS FAST.
Suffrage Union Obtains / 900
Household PLEDGES.

Inc meat boycott came tardy into New
YORK yesterday. cloud no bigger than
mans hand, but fun of promise for a sur
prlsing growth Two young women. who
canVassed from house to house for the
National Progressive Woman Suffrage
Union, obtained the pledges of nearly
thousand households not to eat meat for
sixty days. The same organization has
called an outdoor mass meeting in Union
Square to-day at noon. where The double
propaganda of votes for women and alb
stinence from meat will be urged by the
best speakers of the organization
Moreover Mrs. Sophia Loebinger. head
of the union, said yesterday that the or
ganization is preparing recipes for meatless
dishes. which 1t will publish and distribute
as soon as there is demand for them.
1t is proposed. also, to establish a veg
etarian cooking school to help out in the
fight.
I'VE have received letters from many
women Mrs. Loebinger said. who SYM
pathize in this movement, and many of
them have gent in valuable recipes. We
are ready to go into the peoples homes
and show them how to cook good food
without meat. Most persons eat too much
meat, anyhow. There are plenty of women
who are both good suffragettes and good
housewives. They will come out and help
us, and I have no doubt that we can show
that people can live and live we'll without
meat"
Miss Mary A Donnelly and Miss Sophie
Cremer were at the head of the young
women who conducted the suffragists' can
vass yesterday Miss Donnely and Mrs.
Loebinger will speak at the Union Square
meeting to-day Other speakers will be
Miss Helen Murphy, Mrs. Henrietta Rior-
dan and Mrs. Beatrice Lloyd.
AT the Offices of Swift & Co. it was said
that as yet there had been no falling off
in sales in this city from sympathy with
the boycott in other places. Mondays sales
are always light il was said, and yester
days were not different from the average.
Several small dealers said that they had
not noticed any decrease in their sales
A Silz, large dealer in game and poultry,
commenting on the boycott, said:
IF the people stop eating meat the
prices will go down. That is natural If
the movement gets a start in this city that
will probably happen, but it is the small
dealer who will suffer. man with a big
place employing a hundred or two hum
dren men. can drop part of them if busi-
ness drops, but the poor fellow who gets
OF 4oU q week, Will LIS Iciil anu itlo
telephone and other fixed expenses to meet,
is in very bad way. Personally, of course,
I am not interested, a poultry has not
reached excessive figures"
Mrs. Frederick Nathan, leader of the
Consumers League. which has called
public meeting to be held in Cooper Union
on Thursday night, said that she had not
yet expressed her approval of the meat
boycott.
.'Other things besides meat need regula-
tion," she said. ut is outrageous that such
conditions prevail. when the people can
not get proper food. 1 believe that the
consumers have it in their power to regu-
late prices of the necessaries of life. That
subject will De taken UP at the meeting on
Thursday"
Mrs. Hetty Green was quoted as saying:
The price of meat has really gone up so
high that people do not get their money S
worth when they buy it. People really
cannot afford to eat it. There are other
things that are just as good, and are
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