Show P BOYCOTT ON MEAT In conjunction with the people of many other cities the citizens of Salt Lake are beginning to wear the We dont eat meat button The movement Is said to have started in Cleveland and grew out of a chance remark dropped at a meeting called to consider the high prices of food products In generaL It has spread rapidly The labor unions and the housewives have havo taken the matter up and from present indications we shall have a lenten season during the remaining days of at January and part of at February Whether It will prove effective or not of course cannot bo be foretold The stockmen insist that the present hIgh prices are due to the laW of supply and demand that the in increased creased population of the country has I caused a shortage In the supply They I also declare that the effect of the boy boycott boycott cott will be against them rather than the packers The retail butchers are certain they are not receiving excess profits from the sale of meat on the block after they have settled with the wholesalers The Department of Jus Justice Ice tice at Washington presided over by Attorney General George W Wicker Wickersham Wickersham sham has arrived at the conclusion that the Chicago packers have formed an unholy and illegal combination Consequently a grand jury will be called to make the necessary Inquiry The government asserts that three at least of at the largest packing firms are Interested In the National Packing company com company pany Proceedings may be brought under the Sherman antitrust law to dissolve the latter company It Is also probable criminal actions may be start started started ed President Roosevelt went vent after the ChIcago packers with the big stick Unfortunately they got away though they were compelled to clean up their premises and discontinued the practices ot of which complaint was made This time the special agents ot of the government govern government ment have been conducing an Investigation Investigation gation on the quiet lasting several months If the contemplated actions are started the conclusion is natural that enough evidence Is at hand to se secure secure cure convictions In addition to the 1110 boycott on all alli i kinds of meat it Is proposed to stop using butter for the next thirty days In some cities eggs egR are also under the theban theban ban A breakfast table able without meat i butter or eggs would certainly holdout hol out sUm slim Inducements to those who have always been accustomed to all three ar articles articles heretofore considered as indis indispensable indispensable The war Against high prices Is on and may be carried to extreme lengths notwithstanding the fact that those who enlist for tor thirty days or the entire conflIct are certain to endure much hardship It Is to be hoped those who are not responsible for the extor extortionate extortionate prices will not bo be compelled to suffer with the guilty |