The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-28
sOLBAM MCR|Es
THE MEAT BOYCOTT
Wealthy Rancher Declares
Packers Will Be Only
Beneficiaries

| Every time see one of those ar
| ticles about abstaning from meat
| and relating how they are going to
beat down the price of food, | think
| of the steers back on the ranch; OF
the sixty cent corn have been feed.
ing them, and that's not all, either"
| said Senator Sylvester Soldani, who,
with his brother, is among the best
known cattlemen in the great Usage
| cattle country, to a Leader represen-
| tative. More than likely some OF
| those members OF the meat absti-
nence clubs sell some farmers fam
| lily something at price thrice what
we paid for the same five years ago.
And the ridiculous part of the
business Is that the people are plug
ging for the very meat trust they are
supposed to be assailing. The big
packers with their cold storage
houses loaded to the doors with
/ choice cuts OF meat can well afford
TO see meat abstinence society
formed. When the surplus supply
Is gone and the people go out 10 get
meat, they will find the small dealer
went broke because of their boycott.
the farmer has no cattle ready for
that market which had ceased TO be,
and the meat trust, owning all that
Is ready for the consumer and all the
cattle ready for the market--the
average man having been forced to
sell at ridiculously low price ia
meet his note at the bank-will ask
and get what 1t pleases for the meat
These wise boycotters will have
busted regiment Of small meat
dealers and caused few farmers tt
put a mortgage on their farms anC
the meat trust will be found to owl
z the meat, the mortgages and abou
anything else that peoples boycott
foolishness brought about.
"Boycotting is not very good wa.
to accomplish reform, at least tina
appears TO be true to me. Suppose
e we who have stock and have beel
4 feeding them the high priced grail
e and purchasing high priced clothing
z vehicles and staying at high price,
ii hotels when we are away from home
d should also conclude TO return 10 tn
nj primitive and agree we would pnl
h chase no more for one year?
IS Suppose We should declare tha
r.. we would stay out on the farms an
N ranches and wear overalls; that th
women would get no hat; no dres
e goods: that we would raise our ow
IS foodstuffs and that we could even
e. away with coffee and spices and tha
" the cattle we could not sell woul
q furnish milk and meat, etc?
e. isn't II likely the farmer woul
get TIE best OF the deal from tl
IN standpoint OF comfort? There ougl
ty TO be right way to get at the trust
e. Doctors OF trust evils are numerol
n. during campaigns. but to boycott is,
er new method for the average perso
us In the hitherto that has been consi
is e~ed about the poorest thing an e
Mt ligbtened community could engage !
IS "The rancher has no easy ia!
At. these times. The cattle industry
be no certain path 10 riches. II Is on
to The experienced and careful cattl
q aian who can figure down to the Ia
ID penny cost who can make pro
these days. and the talk OF boycol
of when he has fed sixty cent corn a
nd paid 355 per head for cattle to fe
srt makes she 'sh'yers' creep about
In me assure you"