Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-17
PACKERS MEET ENDS
Close of Convention, With An
nuaI Dinner as Feature.
MEMBERS SEE WASHINGTON
Inspect Points Of Interest Today and
Take Lunch at Cafe
Republique.
MEMBERS SEE WASHINGTON

Concluding what they declare was the
most successful meeting they ever held.
the American Meat Packers Association
spent today in seeing the sights of Wash
ingtOn and vicinity. A number of parties
went on seeing Washington tours dur
ing the morning. and the concluding func-
ton was a luncheon at the Cafe Repub-
lique this afternoon. Many of the dele
gates left for their homes this morning.
|. About 400 members of the association.
with a number of invited guests. sat in
at the annual banquet in the grand ball
room of the New Willard last night and
heard Roe Fulkerson, POSTMASTER, adj
dress them as Gentlemen, cow assassins.
and butchers de luxe" listened as lie
told them that his family hasn't seen
meat for SO long that If any one were to
toss bundle of pork chops into the
house his children would back under the
furniture and growl, and watched the
tears course down his cheeks as he spoke
of his five-year-old daughter who has
the time is rapidly approaching when the
mother of family will call her little
ones about her knee and say to them,
Children, your grandfather was very
wealthy man. Why. he once owned an
undivided one-fourth interest in a beef
steak
Dinner an Annual Feature.
The annual dinners of the association
have been made special features of the
conventions. and last nights affair was no
exception to the rule. The first of the
affairs was an "old English dinner of
the sixteenth century. served by walters
in the costume of the period, and this was
so successful that 1t was repeated. An
other was southern dinner, for which
a chef was brought from New Orleans,
the banquet being served by real old
southern "black mammies'' brought from
Louisiana for the occasion. Last night S
dinner was .'All American from the
Lynnhavens to the Porto Rico cigars and
the Mexican coffee, the decorations being
principally American Beauty roses.
Speaker Clark was to have been the
principal speaker. but he was unable to
attend. his physician forbidding. The
speakers were Representative James
Mann of Illinois, Senator Curtis of Kan
sas and Senator Reed of Missouri
Discusses Plutocratic Socialism.
In his remarks, Senator Reed dwelt on
the plan of government control of mon
opolies advocated by Andrew Carnegie.
Judge Gary, John d. Rockefeller. Presi-
dent Taft and former President Roosevelt
terming the plan "plutocratc socialism, >
and declaring that it could lead only to
actual or "proletarian socialism,, as the
only difference between the two is that
under the one profits would be divided
among the few, while under the other
all would share in the profits Govern
ment control. he said, could only result
in the GENERALIZATION of gigantic trusts
into one overtowering combination of cap
ital, directed ultimately by one gigantic
master mind: land when you have estab-
lished this sort Of socialism for the few
this plutocratic socialism, l shall call it
yor will have the other socialism, for
the people will then take control for
their own benefit.
Representative Mann said that before
coming to the banquet he telephoned the
Attorney General and asked II he would
be safe in joining the packers at the
dinner, and only felt free to come when
that official assured him there would be
no risk. Senator Curtis declared that
he knew the packers are as deeply in
terested in the country's general well
fare as any other class of people.
Committees and Officers.
The members of the committee in
charge were B. w. Cochran. jr., Robert
F. Roberts, J. Fred Schafer. Robert A.
Mccormick and w. Barry Cassell.
The election of officers yesterday after
noon resulted as follows:
President-Benjamin w. Corkran. jr.,
of Street & Corkran Company, Baltimore,
Md.
Vice president-George A. HORNED of
George A. HORNED & Co., Austin, Mimi
Secretary-George l.. Mccarthy of the
National Provisioner, New York city
Treasurer-Charles e. Roth of the j. c.
Roth Packing Company, Cincinnati. Ohio.
Executive committee-Sydney f. Sin
clair of T. NJ. Sinclair & Co., Cedar Rap
ids. Iowa. chairman; n. 0. Newcomb of
the Lake Erie Provision Company, Cleve-
land: c. H. Ogden of the Pittsburgh Pro-
vision and Packing Company. pittsburgh,
Pa; j. J. Felin of j. j. Felin & Co.,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa; Gustav Bischoff, ST.,
of the St. Louis independent Packing
Company. ST. Louis. Mo-: j.. $. Agar of
the Western Packing and Provision Com
pany. chicago, H.; F. T. Fuller of the
G. III. Hammond Company, Chicago, Ill.
Arthur T. Danahy of the Danahy Pack
ing Company. Buffalo, n. Y, and T. w.
Taliaferro of Hammond, Standish & Co..
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