The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-09-08

for the conduct of the anti-reciprocity
campaign there it is reported here
has been subscribed by no less than
thirty different industries, which will
be hit hard If Sir Wilfrid Laurier
who Is handling the publicity end OF
the campaign for the trusts from Mon
trea1 is in daily touch with New York
respecting developments and if neces-
sary to accomplish the end sought to
be achieved 1t is claimed here, can
command any additional funds that
may be needed up to a reasonable
amount. Wall Street fears there will
be big row over the use of the
money in the election, after it is over
and is looking for Congressional
Commission Of Inquiry into it's sour-
ces and employment. The results OF
such an investigation, those who are
familiar with the present temper OF
the administration at Washington and
of Representatives think, will have an
important bearing on the shaping ~or
the new tariff measure to be enacted
next winter.
= Convinced that the people are being
mu1cted out of heavy tolls by the
dealers in foodstuffs, responsible for
the steady increase in the cost of liv-
ing, Justice Rosalsky of the Court of
General Sessions, threw a bomb into
the camp of the poultry barons the
other day which is causing them much
unrest. Eleven of the principal whole
sale dealers in poultry were tried and
convicted recently before this JUS
tlce and sent to jail for arbitrarily
regulating the price Of their output.
The prison sentence has never before
been visited upon offenders of this
kind and to none, more than the priS-
oners was 1t greater surprise when
the jurist pronounced sentence upon
them. Two of the convicted men
were personal friends of the Justice
and had expected a nominal fine.
Justice Rosalsky is a product Of the
lower East Side of the city and grew
UP in the sluIns, where he shared in
the poverty and hardships of the poor
that longest the tenements of that
section. The squeezing Of the poor
by che beef and poultry wholesalers
has long been a tender subject with
him. and in upholding the verdict OF
the jury which convicted the men tried
before him he said the other day:
rs it any wonder there are poorly
nurtured children and starving men
and women in this city?
Between the farm and the table a
chicken has six separate profits fas-
tened On it. Six separate profits must
be paid when a chicken is bought
over the retailers counter. Is it any
wonder the poor are getting poorer?
when I speak of six profits I do
not cover the entire situation for
there are the railroad and carriage
neys who may be engaged by poul-
trymen.
THE farmer raises his chickens and
expects to make a fair profit out Of
them. If he had any way of dealing
direct with the consumer it would be
possible for poor man to buy chick
ems of the finest quality a good deal
cheaper than he gets poor quality Or
cheap meats for under existing con-
ditions.
"A shipper. so-called. deals with the
farmer. This shipper, of course makes
profit, and probably a fat one. That
is, when the chicken feels the burden
of the second profit the consumer is
destined to pay. The chicken is in
sion man. This man gets per cent.
of the price he is able to sell the
chicken for, and per cent for pass
ing it up the third round of the lad
der. Next the jobber looms UP. The
jobbed does little more than pat the
chickens on the head and charges a
toll of about one cent for helping it
from the fourth to the fifth round Of
chicken goes to the slaughterhouse
man. He gets a cent or a cent and a
half for ending the brief career of the
1.-THE slaughter-house man In col
Letting the fifth profit does not pass
the fowl over to waiting public. IN
stead, he passes it over to the retail
err. Just what the sixth profit
10 varies. Sometimes it is
five cents.
eff something is not done'' he adj
ded. "Why, the middleman will simply
keep on multiplying, and God help the
poor"