El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-12

the hackers boycotting' me, L oIIer Ior
saie my. membership in the kansas CITY
livestock Exchange. Preacher Adams.
Are Now worthless.
preacher Adams is Mr.. Byars's part
y7er in the livestock business IN Kansas
City. In explaining why lhe my LILl'-I
shin had been offered for sale MI Byars
said. ct have been in business at the
-tocIrvards for 27 years and my part
ner Preacher Adams, has been in bust
ness longer. Our memberships IN the
eTc6ange are worth $500 if we can do
SS,siness If we are not permitted to
do business they are not worm 10 Genus
That is the Kansas City situation.
While the Union stOckyards at Kansas
CITY was an open market permitting
free competition, the Union stockyards
we've Of undoubted benefit to the city,
and of equally undoUbted benefit to the
cattle producers, who, in the very ma
ture of things, could not combine and
were compelled to compete with each
other.
While the Union stockyards of Kan
sas Citv were conducted on the open
market basis, allowing full and tree
competition, they not only built up a
great cattle center at Kansas City,
but they were check upon the mar
kets of st. Joe and st. Louis and other
points where the trust exercised un-
trammeled sway.
Hundreds of cattlemen in the terri
tory tributary to FL Paso, and who for
a lack of q market in Ell PasO have
been compelled to ship to the east, fire.
uuently, in order to avoid flooding the
Kansas City market with too many cat
tie of one grade. have split" their
shipments, sending portion to st. Joe,
only to find that they never could
make a sale in the trust controlled St.
-THsrH n zrai~ bod
been fixed by the competitive market
at Kansas City and the quotation tele-
phoned or telegraphed over.
No Difference Now.
It thus can be seen what a check the
competitive market of Kansas City had
upon trust controlled markets. Since
Kansas City has become trust con-
trolIed, with competition eliminated, it
can make no possible difference now to
the shipper to which market he sends
his trainload of cattle.
In his interview in the Morning
Times, Mr.. Newman says: THE Kan
sas CITY stockyards are conducted as
an open market There is nothing to
prevent the individual from dealing in
cattle If he sees fit and he Is not dis
eliminated against by the packers, as
has been charged"
What Do They Call 1t.
It is probably true that the packers
do not say to the individual cattle pro-
Queer, You cannot trade in this mar
ket" There are many insidiOus meth
DDS of discrimination. They may mere
ly refuse to give the independent pro-
Queer pen accommodations on any one
of many preteXts. They may claim to
have no room. They may offer him
such a low price that he feels that he
cannot afford to accept it. In many
cases packing house buyers have been
known to openly say to = bOycotted
cattle dealer that they had been in
structed not to buy his cattle-these
are some of the methods of discrimina-
tiOn which may be employed and it is
said often are employed.
Followed by Boycott.
1t has been known, too. where cat
tie dealers who have been driven out of
one trust market for any reason, and
who have shipped to another trust
market, as for instance from St. Joe to
Chicago, has found that his shipment
has been traced and he himself con-
fronted upon arrival at the new mar
ket with precisely the same adverse
conditions which drove him out of st.
Joe. This may not be discrimination"
but 1t is so closely akin to it that il
will be hard to find another word with
which to define IL The packers may
call it elimination
Has It's Own Banks.
It has been the habit Of the great
contederated packing and stockyards
interests to establish banks of their
own wherever they have control of the
packing and stOckyards industries.
Their buyers have been known to So
licit accounts from the cattle dealers,
including the independent shippers,
with whom they do business. It would
be only human nature for them to dis
criminate against the shipper who
would refuse to become a customer of
their bank. who would refuse, for in
stance, to deposit the check he had re-
ceived for his shipment in the bank
controlled by the stoCkyards concern
which had issued the check, thereby
opening a new account.
Would See Great Light.
No matter how friendly he might
feel toward the old established, indie
pendent bank with which he had been
doing business for years, and from
which he had many times, possibly, re-