The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-01-22
Montana stockmen
that it should

plants made and MNM#
criticisms offered EMW#M#NW
during the spring (MNM.Xs
OF that year con- Mon rama Lou Grin
corning the treat
ment Montana cattle shippers were
getting at other eastern cities, inquiry
was being made toward encouraging
shipments to St. Paul. The luminosity
exercised was directed against what
was considered the leading stock a
ket of the middlewest. Frequent refer
ences were made to an address made
by Capt. S. R. Reed of Chicago, who
formerly had been engaged in the
commission business.
Appearing before the annual meeting
of the Northwest Texas Stock associa-
ton at Weatherford, on March 9, 1886,
he was quoted in Miles City as having
said there was virtually one buyer In
his city.
Ex-Buyer Reveals System
His monopoly is one of the most gi-
gantic and oppressive hat ever exist
ed" Reed was quoted as declaring.
"How does it work." he asked. why,
N of his men will bid, We will say,
S cents. Perhaps the owner does not
want to take that for a load of steers,
and will seek another purchaser. An
the bid of another is 3 cents. The SELL
er will of course take back his beeves
to the first man, who will then decline
to give what he formerly offered, the
second will do the same, and the con-
sequence is the cattle are sold at a
Taking up the cudgel for the Mon
tana beef producers, the Miles City
St~ockgrowers' Journal grew more and
more acrimonious in its editorial COM
ment. The Chicago press" said the
Journal, has begun to abuse the pa
pers which advocate other markets.
It is evident that the naughty city be-
livestock universe throne The
eyes of the world are on Kansas
City, St. Louis, Omaha, and Den
YER. Will they not do something to
divide the livestock trade with Chicago?
Will they lot prepare to handle dressed
unwilling to admit that this country
has reached the point where one man
or one city can dictate the price Of one
Of the most important commodities of
life When thieves fall out, ETC.
Capt. Reed, a commission man of Chi
cago, says there is but n buyer in
that market. Just what re have all the
time claimed, and yet We have been
accused of attacking Chicago ignor-
antly. But what the public wants to
know is, why doesn't Captain Reed n
somebody else go into the business of
buying beeVeS IN ChlcagO?"
Buyers in League
Lack Of competition was given as
fact that the Northwest Texas Stock
association had adopted a resolution
"condemning the dressed meat indus
try" the Journal said: THE plain cold
fact-as plain to an unbiased mind as
a sunbeam, as plain to be seen as a
@Ino@l I4rn1rrfno%o hSHt
made still more evident by this dec
laration OF one Captain Reed who
ought to know whereof he speaks-is
that there is not now, nor has there
been, any competition between the
buyers. either dressed meat or live beef
men, in the Chicago market, and Cap
tain Reed is virtually correct when he
u products. And although this war
is raging fiercely, each contestant is
trying to array public opinion on its
side, each d%enouncing the other as I'M
just monopolists, yet that point has
not been reached where n will bid
sacred obligation not to do so has not
been broken, and we fear will not be
-. In fact it is to the establishment
of such institutions as will enable the
producer to market his products near
home, and at different points, that the
public must look for protection against
such monopolies as are bred and nour-
ished in Chicago. Give us Strengthening
establishments all over the country,
and give us railroad rates that will n
courage them"
Increased heat" was applied to the
situation as it grew more tense. Cap
tain Reed had started something"
cage commission man-now a Chi
cago drummer, and if he opens his
head about Chicago buyers again, Cap
tain Reed will be written down as a
St. Louis drummer-the meanest cpl
tibet a Chicago paper can apply"
that the Rev. Sam Jones had been con-
Quoting ~evangelistic campaign in
the Chicago stockyards district. 1--WE
are aware" said the Journal, that it
is asking a great deal, but if Brother
Jones can succeed in getting a dose of
saving grace into those fellows, the
stock raisers Of the country will erect
tower to the heavens"
The noted evangelist was shown
through the stockyards. HE told the
commission men that they were good,
truthful men, and that he was glad
to meet them. On another occasion
devil is a gentleman. Sam was always
eccentric"
Miles City Shows Fight
It was estimated that 10000 head of
big fat beeves would be furnished the
consumers dressed and frozen from
Miles City in 1886. The shipment of
this large number of beeves, it va
Chicago market. Great is Chicago"
editorially shouted the Journal. How
she sparkles as she sits upon the
throne Of the livestock universe and
SCOTS at the threats of other large
cities to rival her! Miles City is a
tropolis, but Just the same Miles City
will kill and dress 10000 beeves this
year, and this means sis, 900 out Of the
pockets Of Chicago commission men,