The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1919-08-16
LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT
PACKERS ALSO.
(The Daily Republican, Cedar Rapids, Friday July 25)


testing agnst of the features of the packers bill now pend
ing in congress- In a statement the senator said;
Teerams and letters are pouring in on senators and rep
these bills stimulated to protest by the
agents of the packers active all over the United States
"They agents in their employ travel around the
country interviewing retail merchants telling them that these
bills viii destroy them borrowing letter heads from storkeepes
which they their letters stimulating
simply destroy the nation This battle is fast becoming
find out wheather the packers with their combination and
opo strong that they practically prevent the
sderaon of bills to regulate them"
Our esteemed senator peevish
mind people right protest
right to make wishes opinions Congress
choud of all be most anxious to 1t is
possible that of the correspondent he has been prompted
the packers That often matter in
gress that the protest do that the people write
their congressman their own motion The people are in diff
enent and unkowng The packers bill might not interest
them until their attention had been called to it.
assumed that all those who write at such
suggestions ignorant of the bills that they opn
the provisions of that bill 1t is well to bear in mind also
that all the opposition the packers not from the people
direct but much of It, the contrary has been ceyery direct
packers invade their field and the wholesale
have them enter competition with them and those ners
sentiment that Senator Kenyon has embodied in his bill
1t largely fight of conflicting interests than is fight
of the people
Nor is it plain to many men that further regulation the
going accomplish Kenyon hoping
for that lower food prices is attacking the proposition
IN the middle and the attack made there envade either end
safer make the attack thev who supposed to
constitute the packers that TO make on the farmers
end yet possible either Of those
both of them have something to do with the high costs of v
ing.
After the packers smashed smitherens will
prices be loweed May they be made higher because
that the packing business conducted tn
big scale has reduced minimum the charges for tina
part supplying food to the people,? Unless t
packers liars and they they ought to be hanged they
greatly to blame for the prices of meats Their sworn
statements the effect that it only fration of cent
pound that cngs their hands is quarter Of cent
added whole carcasshat say they
| at a
of cent pound If the packers smashed will that quartz
cent must ae s be- dome and w the AGENCIES be- able to
less? The packers say that of 500 that they
receive from all connected with meats they pay S5 d
it to the producers of the animals the farmers SIS more of
aborng who do the work. That makes sos In all
the other dollars what the packers have for their
profits, including interest on their investments.
II these statements are true and they ought to suscib
of demonstration then is not the packers who are to blame
hundred stays their hands then
Legislative reoers the track and they
not true then the asy of ought TO be shown and the men wh
have made the false sworn statements ought to be punished for
What be saved to the people who high prices for
pay for meats Is it not ridiculous proposition cost
Of foods can be lowered by such processes?
The primary part the high prices in the prices
being paid to farmers In Iowa farmers ALL but there
is in lying about It, Twent-three and half for hogs
high prices for meats and nothing else be
of What the of trying to make anything else of R
But no senator from Iowa would have the political
proceed by investigating farm pcesand they would
that farmers prices necessarily hSh other
high things such and labor and land You
$l5 bacon from $2350 hog Why not have this admitted
in congress?
And the packer responsible for the price paid for hogs Some
believe that but every farmer knows that is not pack
but the price of that makes the price OF hogs
There is left the retailer distribution
ing deliveries of homes that the problem
here have sad fact consider And that sad fact that
costs almost much pound to distribute and deliver meats
the total costs paid to the farmer and packer Meat that
leaves the packer 20 cents pound the 40
cents pound in the big cities and even at such prices the but
cheT who cut and distribute it do not make much
few of them grow rich But problem
Investigating upsettng the packers? Is way
get at it even? /
We hold brief for packers In Cedar Rapids
packing which highly business
ton which all believe along
homo lnaS Int