Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-04-10 | Page 3 | Fight Packers Merger

FIGHT PACKERS MERGER Stock Growers Will Wage Relentless War WANT HONEST COMPETITION To That End Fierce Attack Will Bo Made on Trust Representatives of LiveStock Interests Inter-ests Hold a Conference in Denver Den-ver to Consider Question t Denver April 9A meeting of great Importance to the producers of live stock has been held In Denver with representative representa-tive men present from I dovicn States west of the Mississippi river In rcsponnc to a cnll made by President John W Springer of tlii National LiveStock association as-sociation o the United States who prc ienlcd the latest information concerning the packinghouse merger scheme It was determined said Mr Springer nll Slwh1Eel to fight the packers all along the line and to prevent If at all possible the con toinnlnlfd morcer for XHOOOflfO OlTcri were made to organize n new line of o packinghouses under pledge from all the big cattle producers to stand by the new packinghouses if built The pnchlhhouSCR hll 1he Federal Government only waits another move to prosecute criminally the officers of the combine as proposed for dlcohcdlonce of the Injunction of the Federal court nt Chicago and all tH State stnml ready to suppress nn unlawful conspiracy against Interstate agalnst commerce Tho slock producers have resolved towage to-wage a relentless war for free markets and honest competition among packing house plants In each o these markets I is well known that the recent 15 COOOOO merger of small plants was done to take care of malurlni notes the several packers had given for the pfckerM J1cl small concerns and which they did not have the ready money to pay when culled by the banks of Chicago Thin is to be the opening wedge for the tfOOMOnOQ merger openlnb