Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-13

BLOOD VIII tell. bOStOh
with a tea party in which a whoie
cargo of tea was dumped. NOW sne
got the habit. Today Boston hotel and
restaurant keepers have gone peyono
tea and propose to dump all beef
from beef tea to shin bone; they re-
solve. after many whereases, that
beef costs too much and Is too tough
and tasteless, so they advise and urge
all patriotic "injuns" to discard beer
until the COW that has jumped over
the moon descends and keeps her feet
on, the ground.
few weeks ago the writer had the
Measure of travelling across the briny
waters in company with Sir Thomas
Upton, who, in speaking as an sx.
pert, il not as an Irishman, declared
that il that tea had been-well. GER
tain brand, not a pound or 1t would
have been dumped. Quality will tell,
whether in tea or rib roast. Talk to
a Britisher as o'clock strikes the
hour about dumping tea-tea-it will
bring on apoplexy or madness. Now
what will happen to Bostonians who
are asked to dump roast beef ana
"bifstek"? 1t is almost as sacri.
legious as to suggest no beans Tor
Sunday.
OF course, Washingtonians are not
directly affected by the revolt in Bos-
ton, for we do Motive cannot-get
even such beef as Bostonians feed on
normally. So say the high authori.
ties of the Government. Our market
will not justify handling prime" or
Choice meats. They are reserved
for Boston and New York. We pie
beians of the National Capital eat what
is technically branded as medium
grade slaughter steers" or, when we
are saving up for Christmas money,
we chew on common grade slaugh-
ter steers" and cows. II there is
payment due ON Lizzie, we may even
satisfy our cravings with hash or cut
ter grade of slaughter steers" That
does not necessarily imply that an or
binary knife will cut the cutter
grade" but an ideal safety will do
so fluently.
But in Boston they actually get
at least, in firstclass hotels-what IS
spoken of most respectfully as prime
grade slaughter steer roasts" and big,
thick, Juicy ''bifsteks," temptingly
"marbled" with veins of fat running
all through the red lean. And then
it is cooked just right, for any chef
who can make even beans palatable
excels in roasts of prime beef" Yet,
in spite of this, there is even today
second Boston dumping party-as en-
thusiastic as was the second A. II. r.
tourney back to the battlefields OF
France, and as determined as was the
historic tea party of yore.
Iconoclasts of history may deny
that there ever was William Tell or
Paul Revere, but the fact that the
sins-or dumps-of the Boston fathers
descend to their great-great-grand-
chiIdr en- of 1921, in the inherited tend
encv to heave overheard the food OF
the hungry, proves beyond a bubble
that that tea party by the Indians was
really a white affair camoufiaged. Not
even modern pacifists can charge that
as ultra -militarist, for it is inherited
in the blood. 1t cannot be off1ciaily
confirmed that the gradual lowering
of beef grades in Massachusetts, had
anything to do with the refusal of
certain Yankee to choose to run, for
no one can run who chews lily. VIII
Congress add to its Investigations by
inquiring:
"On what meat does this, our
Caesar feed.
That he has grown so-independ'
ent?"
y y II
Official records throw light on the
background of this event." for II APP
pears that irrevocable law of supply
and demand remains upon the statute
books of trade.
In 1900 the population of cattle in
the United States was 81 500, 900 head,
and by 1904 it had increased to 64,-
600 900: slaughter caught up with
production in 1904. and for the next
eight years we slaughtered more than
we produced. and all those years,
while cattle raisers were unloading,
the prices were falling. The fact that
we were exporting beef in those years
showed that we had a surplus, de.
preciating home market prices.
Then the war came in 1914, and
prices rose, which stimulated farmers
and cattle breeders and feeders to in
crease their herds, and, in spite of in
creased demand throughout the war,
our production grew in equal pace.
until In 1918-1920 we had a cattle popu-
lation of 100000. Now in 1927 we
again have 57,500,000 head, for since
1918 cattle owners have been unload.
ing at considerable loss. due to lower
prices than in war times, and lower
purchasing value of the money they
could get for their cattle.
While we today count $500, 900
head of cattle, the same as in 1900,
it must be remembered that the pro.
portion of cattle to people Is very
different. In 1900. our human popu-
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first place, and great story of sur
passing theme. 1t is an orderly and