The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-25

of the known world, which will ruin
the improved live stock of this oun
try.
We export corn, wheat and oats as
long as we produce more of a COM
modify than We consume, and to hunt
a foreign market for it, the price We
get for what we send abroad makes
the market for the crop. Protection
cannot raise or lower in price that
commodity. What would Germany do
in like case? Investigate the cause
for the short meat supply. They would
soon find a meat trust sapping the
producers and consumers and pocket
ing millions that belong to producers
and consumers.
1t is my belief that such a trust
could not live in any other country in
the known world. We are a nation Of
grafters-care nothing for the struggl-
ing masses, and the future Of our
country.
The livestock business has been my
study for sixty years. am now seven
,ty. My father was an experienced
stock raiser and a judge in the bust
ness until the last fifteen years. There
was a little money in the business.
Twelve years of the last fifteen 1t
has been a losing business. Men all
over the country have lost their all or
part. They went out Of the business
to save a little. Others because they
could not get money to go on. -Four
years ago the cutting loose idea struck
them all at the same time. Cows of a
fine quality were shipped to so-called
markets by the hundreds of thousands.
Calves the anne. All went. Two
years ago the beef trust put up a howl
cattle were scarce. Up went the
price Of meat to a tremendous price
higher than ever known before. The
government hired a swarm of lawyers
to prosecute the beef trust--got a
judgment against the trust by a jury.
The trust took an appeal before a
single Judge; the cases were dismiss
ed, the packers went clear. The people
foot the bill. This trust has played
the same old game for years.
This week they put up the price of
livestock fifty cents a hundred. Cool
ers are all empty, the demand for
meats is good, bring on your cattle.
In a day or so the receipts are larger.
Up goes the cry from the meat trust
coolers are all full, meat channels are
all clogged, poor demand for meats,
too many cattle. We will buy them
fifty to sixty cents a hundred pounds
lower. That takes all the feeders
profit. He has made nothing on his
winters or summers feeding.
The next day a shortage of meat.
They never lower the price to the con-
sumer. They fleece the consumer all
the time-the feeder two-thirds of the
time.
1t was time the farmers went out
OF the cattle business. II our polite
ians had paid half as much attention
to what was for the best interest OF
this country as they have in getting
office and a raise in their salaries, the
trust never would have gotten a foot
hold on the American soil.
The last year the American farmer
has begun to take hold of the best
bred cattle in this country. The out
look is for better beef and plenty of
1t In the heal future, II the meat trust
Is put out Of commission. II there is
nothing done to check the meat trust
and cattle and meat IN the free list
these farmers that are going into well
bred stock will unload them as they
did three years ago. and more so. This
same meat trust has the same grip on