The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-02-04

The meat boycott is working
we'll in a number of cities and prices
are tumbling as the sales fall off
The interesting feature will be tt
see the effect on the other commodi
ties as well as upon the one
directly aimed at. Here is what
the Brooklyn Eagle has to offer as c
solution to the problem of high
prices:
The food boycott spreads rapidly, as al
expression of popular wrath, it is impress,
i've. The announcement that the Beef
Trust is to be prosecuted again by the
Government, is one of the first results OF
the movement.
Whether that prosecution will do any
good or not remains to be seen. But that
there is much simpler remedy than the
prosecution of any single combination for
the maintenance Of prices is shown by the
market prices in Canadian cities. In
Montreal yesterday, butter was selling at
from 70 to IS cents a pound; eggs at 40
to ~ cents a dozen; choice turkeys at 20
and p cents a pound; good ones bringing
IS or 10 cents; chickens at 1 and ID cents;
hind quarters of beef, u TO Scents; mutton
g. to cents; lamb, s to 9 cents, and
choice veal at from 10 to Il cents
we could import those foodstuffs from
Montreal and get them for the trifling
not for the tariff. If this session of Con-
gress would drop its various disputed pro-
jects long enough to make a genuine
i -,
it could end in a week the various boycotts
and insure the election of an overwhelming
Republican majority next fall.
Daniel X. Pearson enjoys giving
away his fortuue. We do not always
agree with his method as some Of
his gifts seem to demand so much
of the struggling colleges they take
away from their desirability He
says of his way of enjoying life:
Let other rich men go in for automo-
biles and steam yachts. / have discov-
cred, after endowing AZ colleges in "a
states, that giving is the most exquisite of
all mundane delights. On my Goth birth
day, April a. l am going to have a
squaring up with all the small colleges |
have promised money to, and / serve
notice now that, beginning then, / am
going on a new rampage of giving. /
intend TO die penniless. If there are any
other millionaires who want to have a lot
of fun let them follow my example"
Vermonters nave not lost any
sleep over the charges against the
immigration Commission and the
investigation trip as far as Senator
is concerned. The only
offence the Vermont Senator is
charged with, as far as we can deter
mine, is being chairman of the Com
mission. under fire. The Commits
sion has collected a vast amount of
data and some Of it was startling
enough to stir the country to action.
When the charges are probed, we
believe that they will be found to
have been constructed out of fimsy
If there is more to the rumor
about King ManuePs wedding pros
poets than there was to the former
rumor of his ill success when he
went counting to the Court of st
James, then he secured what he
was after-an English bride from the
house of Hanover Next
May, the Princess Victoria Patricia
and King Manuel will be married.
Her head, although crowned. is
likely to lie most uneasily.
Sec" Wilson says that he is gath
ering proof that American farm
products are being sold cheaper
abroad than they are in this county.
l he can prove that Congress will
hear such a clamor for revision of
the tariff as it never heard before,
for the tariff is not appreciated as
boomerang. We don't mind pro-
tecting four interests but we do
mind giving the advantage of such
protection to the other fellows.
A Washington despatch makes d.
J. Fosters position on the Cannon
matter as "agln him." In the inter
est of party harmony, he is quoted
as saying, there should be a change
in speakership and leadership Up
here in Vermont there are a good
many students OF national politics
who think that Uncle Joe's" place
is on the retired list.
Clifford Pinchot succeeds Dr.
Charles Elliot. as president of the
n ational Conservation Association.
His headquarters will he in the enc
mics camp at Washington. He is
gone from the Official circle but he
will see to it that he is not forgotten.
Almost two hundred persons have
registered in the cooking, and sew
ing school at Proctor. Proctor