The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-10-26
Timed Bully Beef From Argentine
lnvades Retail Markets of Nampa
Idaho Stock Growers
Finds Competition
Is Keen.
Obi Farmer BILLY

Obi Farmer Billy
Nampa.-Its only an ordinary look.
ing can of beef-salt horse, bully beef
corn beef. 1t looks like millions oil
other cans Of beef you've seen-but
it's very different.
This can of beef is exhibited in
the Leader Herald window. Idaho
farmers and stockmen-and every
farmer is stockman-is invited to
come in and see it, and figure it out
1t came from Argentine, bearing
the Spanish brand of Swift & Co.,
| and not so very long ago the beei
| critters that made it was frisking
around on the cheap pastures of the
Antipodes; growing up for almost
nothing and boarding themselves.
They didn't ever think of migrat-
ing to America.
But they have. They're here
Right in your own home market
that you thought was yours. any
how. t
Steers travelling 10000 miles to take
your market without SO much IS .
Thank your And taking it, tool
This can is part of the regular meat
supply now being served to America
under the free trade laws; not laws
that may be passed, but that are now
operating.
By the way, what profit are you
making out Of your beef stock3 Your
dairy stock? Your hay1 Did this
risky Argentine steer help pay your
taxes, buy clothing for the wife and
children, take up the note at the bank,
give you a few dollars for comfort
and pleasure and for the rainy day
that is bound to come?
steer that comes in freely by legal
local bills, he'd be welcome. Wed
be for him.
But he won't do it. Whatever he
pays, is to his Argentine owner
maybe-and to his packer buyer. He
doesn't sell any too cheap, no mat
ter how cheaply he grew up and came
to the packing house; the ultimate
American consumer doesn't lick his
chops over low priced beef. And
yet, he sells just little under the
price of American beef. Not much.
but enough to rob the American grow
er of the last cent of profit.
There is a point in feeding a steam
engine, or a gas car, or steer, or .
human being, where the feed just
supplies enough power to run-and
nothing to spare. 1t all goes into
bare living; its just one degree above
being dead. An extra lump of coal
in the boiler, an extra slice of bread
or beef on the plate, an extra dollar
in the bank accountant prosperity
is certain; for this little extra is the
difference between profit and loss
A profit, no matter how small, will
eventually bring strength and pros
perity; and loss, however small, will
in the end destroy the most colossal
| fortune.
The Argentine steer comes in OF
this slight loss. He reduces the price
of Idaho farm stock only q little
but it turns a normal Idaho prof,
into a loss.
Where will you get off. with thi.
Argentine steer taking your beef mar
ket, the Danish butter cutting in OF
your cream Sales, the Canadian whea
coming in to the mills on an exchang'
basis Of $32.47 for the English pount
and being sold here for full value
$4.8 for the pound sterling? Viii
the big millers that set the price, pa.
you three dollars, or any dollars .
all, for your high-cost wheat, whel
the present tariff law lets them by
in Canada for so much lesss Wi
the packer pay you your high COS
for beef, with a decent profit. whe
he can buy these cheap steers in Aus
tralia9
l, The League to Promote War fo
the American People who are aske
to sign up and stand ready to polio
the whole world as long As the
, money holds out-or to WEIGH an
. lie out of it and be short sports whe
their promise doesn't bring them
, profit-this league may be q fin
fantasy for an emotional orgy. b
this can of beef and the curfel
+ prices for Idaho wheat are so mue
! nearer; so intimate, SO selt-eviden
The free trade laws are upon u.s.
with this cheap beef to take the Id
E no markets. II man must live b
fore he can love, if he must eat b
fore he can grow and work, If
must have money before he can sper
for himself or for his neighbors.
he must have a Job himself before
! can give a job to others-then doesr
America need the wherewithal of Ii
: as the necessary first step of exins
ence?
Idaho just now needs the little e
ira that is the difference betwe,
n life and death. That is q tariff tn
= will make the home market safe +
the home grower.
Inspection of local markets disclos
$ the fact that a number of Mann
0 grocers have stocks of this Argentii
e canned beef on their shelves and tn
e it is being sold every day to residen
l. of this section.
81 She Still Fugits.