Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-15

AIRED before the Oenate NOmmlttee on Agrl-
is positively no monopoly or unfair practices in
Try.
81 have been engaged in the packing business in
Baltimore for twenty years We have been in daily
petition with all the big packers and all the small pack
and have always prospered. We have trouble
in securing the live animals in competition with the big
packers. We are in competition with them in Cncin-
natl, St. Louis, Louisville and Toledo, we'll in
yards Baltimore. There is real competition in all
these yards ,. :, ,,,. !, .,a.u =. .ho
packing business; would stfle initiative, keep the young
from showing the ambition he ought to have"
81 have always found the big packers to be very fair
in their dealings with There times when we
do little better with packer than we with
another They have been unreasonable nor have
they res9rted to any unfair practices nave neve seen
All of the small packers if they understand the
business, making money.
II wish to take exception to statements made by W.
B. Colver of the Federal Trade Commission, that the
independent packers existed the sufferance of the
large packers know several of the independent pack
of the country who have made larger return on
their capital than the big FIVE and feel all have
prospered All the socaed big packers represented
in Philadelphia and there six independent small
packers estimate that the smaller packers do more
than half Of the business. have known all the big pack
for number of years and have never heard of
unfair dealings their part Our worst competition is
not with the western packers much it is with
local competitors We find the western packers fair in
every of their dealings We buy live stock in
or markets and have always been able buy in open
competition with the large packers and have found
them fair competitors in the selling of their products In
place of trying put OF business the big packers
really assist u.s.. II
"The big packers are our hard, keen, but fair
peors We have had any trouble because OF be-
ing in competition with them There is always strong
competition the market in buying but have
had any trouble in meeting it. know of methods that
have been adopted by of the big packing concerns
which were unjust, unfair monopolistic We not
existing by "suferance" We perfectly able to take
of ourselves Our business has gradually increased
1885, AS far profits concerned, my company
has made larger percentage its turnover than of
the so-called Big Five
"The duty Of Congress. i. to build up and not to de-
stroy. We beg you to defeat these bills"
"I have been engaged in the packing business thirty
years and during the last twelve years, have been in
business for myself Previous that time, had been
with of the Big Five packers. When he learned that
had gone in business for myself, he voluntarily let
have enough money establish myself. mention this
to show that he did not want to put out of business
On the contrary, he helped get started.
eve have all of the big five packers at Buffalo and
about thirty independent packers BESIDES There keen
competition among all of There is no combination or
unfair practices among the larger packers We are
against this legislation"
81 regard the big packers conducting clean and
keen competition They have done much build up the
cattle industry, the packing industry and business gen.
orally grounds for attempting to regulate their
method of doing business If it for the the
packers conduct their business the consuming public
right would be paying considerably more for the
goods than they paying today You trying
to prevent the large packers from and are
ness, if in his judgment he thinks he might succeed
has been stated that the independent packers of the
country exist by sufferance of the big five That is
not true Anybody compete with the big five
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