The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-10
UNIVERSAL MEAT TRUST.

The bringing in Of meat from Ar
gcntina and selling it in New York at
a price below the current market there,
after paying the tariff dues under the
| Aldrich act, attracted the immediate
attention of the meat trust, as it was
natural that it should do. In fact, the
meat trust Of the United States antici-
pated the shipments referred to and
was able to shut them OFF before they
had gone very far.
A recent debate in the Argentine
Chamber Of Deputies consisted in a
loud call to curb the meat trust, which
was making so much trouble for the
supposed free Argentine beef market.
Those who took part in the debate
| were unanimous in their opinion that
the so-called American meat trust
was at the bottom of all the troubles.
This meat trust had It's headquarters
| in the Chicago stockyards and it ap-
pears that it is ambitious to be the nu-
cleus of world wide meat trust. Tt is
from this meat trust, undoubtedly, that
the encroachment upon the Argentine
meat supply has been carried so far
that it will not be able to furnish more
meat by way Of reducing prices in the
United States. This means, Of course,
that the meat trust is making progress
in getting control of the Argentine
meat market, Very likely it has al
ready obtained that control If so,
there would be ample reason for the
denunciation of the American meat
trust in the Chamber Of Deputies of
Argentina. The debates in that Cham
Der developed that so per cent of the
meat consumed in Buenos Ayres is sup
piled by the trust. With start of
SO per cent, then, in the supply Of the
local market in Argentina 8 greatest
city, there would appear to be no doubt
but that the American meat trust has
in part secured possession and will
surely control the meat trade Of Ar
gentina.
Those who object to the operations
of the American meat trust in Buenos
Ayres propose to lease in the central
meat market to the Armours two stalls
for local trade; but nothing was done,
and the chances are that the Armours
will take what stalls they desire in the
local market in Buenos Ayres, and that
the people and the Government alike
will have to come to the Armour terms.
The probability is, therefore, that the
Argentine meat supply is to be prac-
| tically shut off from the American con-
sumner. The next move doubtless will
be upon the Australian market, and it
will be quite as easy to get that into
the trust as it was for the trust TO get
control of the Argentina market.
The next great cheap meat supply
might be supposed to be in South and
Central Africa, but doubtless by the
time these regions are In condition to
make any sizeable shipments, the meat
trust will have occupied the field and
will control those shipments, just as it
is controlling the shipments from the
Argentines now, and will soon control
the shipments from Australia and New
Zealand.
The fact is that in modern business
combinations the boundaries of nations
and even of hemispheres count for but
little. The immense increase in the
world s population has so limited the
areas of cheap meat production that
the meat trust Will find no insuperable
difficulty in combining the meat trade
of the world and holding that combina-
tion, in spite of all legislation and all
efforts for relief.