The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1915-12-02

tlmldate the government ana Inc Pee
5 pie in the face of the fact that GU
foreign market in hogs had increase
from $11 900, 900 to S132, 900, 900 i
year. This shows that the reduc
ton in the east in October was ar
bitrary and not warranted by thu
markets, but was deliberately plan
ned. Then if the packers in the cas-
can manipulate markets at will why
cannot their branches in the north
west do the same thing? and is it moi
reasonable to suppose they do? It
is signific ant that the Portland mar
ket was So to So so lower in the
summer and early fall and raised
about rs cents hundred at the same
time that the eastern market dropped
off dollar. Does any reasonable
person suppose for an instant that
supply and demand or the quality of
the feed regulated the market in
either case? No one but fool
would try to stuff such argument
down the people and no one but a
chump would believe it if they did.
In his letter 10 Mr.. Louis Nelson
of this city, Mr.. Doughtrey, presi-
dent of the stock yards company,
says in relation to the article in the
Signal: "You state this article is at
tracing wide attention also that it
was approved by the producers of
your section as we'll as others.
81 note the Signals comment of
one H. II. Fike shipping II cars of
hogs from Gooding, Idaho, to the
Kansas City market. No doubt Mr..
FIke made handsome profit on this
shipment over what ne could have
marketed his hogs for in Portland
and presume he will be a regular
shipper of hogs from Idaho to
the east in the future, as | did |
not see any suggestion from the
editor of the Signal regarding a
federal investigation of the Kansas
City stock yards
Some fle sarcasm, isn't it? But
for the enlightenment of the Port
and stock yards president the editor
IF the Signal will say the Kansas
City stock yards were investigated
and the result of that Investigation
showed just what the Signal believes
S the matter with the Portland Stock
yards, i. e., that the packing houses
held the controlling interest and
all of the buyers had
,een driven from there but few
ocal butchers who were owned by
he meat trust and simply acted as
dummies for the deception of the
selling public.
Oh, yes, Mr. Daughtrey, the Kan
las City stock yards were investigat-
ID, but it took joint commission
rom both the Kansas and Missouri
legislatures (the Kansas City stock
,ards are located on the state line
the two states) to get at the
acts, and then it took a fight to a
inish in both Legislatures to defeat
he lobby of the great meat trust and
,et laws passed in both states that
7ould convict them which ever side
f the line they crossed to. The
tate authorities were then able to
7atch them "a goin' and comm, F"
nd after they had issued innumer-
BILE circulars just as the Portland
Union Stock Yards company is doing
cling the public how independent of
he meat trust they were and how
aey were being maligned and perse-
uted by a harsh and unfeeling lot
f newspaper critics, among them the
resent editor of the Signal, they
list simply walked into court and
cknowledged that they had lied for
ears and that if the prosecution
ould cease they would sever their i.
slations with the packing trust and
ould be good. They may need in
estigating again, but they came SO {
ear losing their charters to do bust
ess in the states of Kansas and
lissouIi before, that it is safe to /
onclude that they are being careful
ven now. /
1t has been openly charged that
lie Union Meat company, which is
just branch of an
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