The Hattiesburg news., 1910-02-05
who are accused Of the crime. deny

Consider, says the circular, WHat
a blow the meat trade would suffer,
and how prices of eggs, poultry and
other perishable goods would slump
at times and go to unheard-of-prices
at other times, If such goods could
not be held safely to break the mar
ket when it gets unreasonably high
That declaration shows the reasona-
bleness of always studying both sides
of a question. Heretofore We have
quite misunderstood the object, aim,
ambition and end Of trusts. We had
thought they we're combination OF
designing individuals and soulless cor
porations, for the purpose Of elevating
the prices of things; but on the con-
trary. we and they are band OF, pa
triots with an eye single to the public
good, holding themselves forever IN
readiness to break the market" when
at gets unreasonably high"
In the olden days a good sized fry
ing chicken sometimes scared to the
unreasonable" price of 25 cents per
chick. In those days chickens were
shipped alive and in their right
minds. to points where the market
called for them. They were killed
one day, hung over night by string
so high the cat could not reach them
and allowed to cool, and cooked ant
eaten the next day; and they tasted
like chicken. Now the cold storage
natriots take them while yet young
and keep them in perennial youth
in a cold storage vault, and when the
price goes over a dollar, they "break"
it. They break it by taking the chick
en- out Of its vault, melting 1t down
in ice cold water to keep 1t from de-
caying before it melts, put 1t on a
red hot stove and cook while 1t Is
thawing For If by chance 1t thaws
before it is cooked, it comes on the
table smelling like a chicken coop
and tasting unlike anything that God
Almighty ever made either for cam
balls or civilized human beings to eat.
But the long suit Of the cold stor-
age trust is their eggs. They have
well night broken the habit of some
city folks had Of eating fresh eggs,
BY taking them of the market. The
hen fruit they serve now Is OF that
age and condition, that for
merly was reserved for poor actors
and Republican politicians In the
South. The eggs have pretty much
he same taste old eggs always had;
he difference is that people did not
lat them then. But In one way the
.old storage trust has made quite a
saving in eggs. Now you can take an
I'D egg that has been sat upon for the
regulation 81 days and refuses 10
,atch. and put it in cold storage
md keep 1t there year or more
md when it comes out 1t is just as
rood to eat as it was when 1t went
n. Eggs of this character in the L
,lden times, were wasted, unless an {
dog got hold of one OF
hem through mistake; then 1t usually
erved the good purpose of killing the S
log. Eggs, real eggs in those days t
we're uncertain in price. In the sum- t
ner they only sold for 10 cents a doz- 8
m: in the winter at 20 cents; and up I
nd down they went Now they are =
ixed and steady in their ways, and
ou can always count on getting re-
liable and staid old eggs for 40 cents
We are told further along in the cir
ular that the purpose of the "cold
forage people" is not to make money
or themselves, hut:''to prevent the
roducers from gluttfng the market at
ines. and not receiving the remu-
erative prices they should receive v
Or their produce That is SO touch
ng and beautiful an idea, that we
,ill leave it with our readers to feast
heir risibles upon.