| Show ritnnmss MiTiintT AmAMtMivr Our butchers and meat dealer or nt least l some of them ore making the I complaint that Iheyinre losing mon In their calling compared with what they were formerly doing Thy how that no further back than last year they could buy animals on fool or car carses several Ir rent cheaper than now and that the times not having Improved In a central I way the people are unable to keep pace with the ad vancrd rates the result being that the business mut be curtailed and many patrons get along with correspondingly corresponding-ly less 011 ur sell nt a los as compared com-pared with previous transitions Perhaps Per-haps this Is true certainly It li I the case that horned I stock quotations tune advanced and how aymplom ut nnn neon It not further luhnnce Hut whether or not the complaint that the dealers are not makIng enough out 01 their business Is vvell I I founded Is n lineation I nvolV I tic mora at an 100tI gallon than the News feels called upon to make It Is sufficient to yIn y-In such connection that the met dI err like those engaged In almost every other lines of trade make the principal prin-cipal parts of their Incomes out of the small transactions representing the great miss of the people and this be Inc no a decided advance In prices without a corresponding nblllt on the part of the buyers to meet It must of necessity mn a nt comparative loss to both classes The comparison sus ir Eta the question an to how much the dealers realized before and whether It was no much In excess of the needs of I trade as to enable them to suffer a considerable reduction and still be enabled en-abled to keep their heads above water It Is hardly fair to them to answer the question In the affirmative without being be-ing better posted but the meat deal nt business Is I Generally considered to lie a good one as things are going cven now A large herd of stock perhaps 1000 head was observed In the southwestern part of the city today presumably awaiting shipment out of the State It matters not to what point to long as the anImal were grown on our tringes and do not reach local markets the fact that we are not consuming our own products added to the other and thoroughly unwelcome circumstance that by reason of such things we are at times compelled to rely upon the very places that our stock la I tent to paying therefore the necessarily ndvancci price Is I n condition of things which We my not 100 able ta overcome or even regulate but Is none the less regrettable re-grettable on that account When the late President Young Instituted In-stituted woolen mills In our midst he made no secret of the fact that his object ob-ject was first to reduce the volume of Imports by rendering them less I neces sax n I second to encourage the manufacturing manu-facturing and fostering of our own raw materials and third to give employment em-ployment to the greatest possible number num-ber of home people This In I statesmanship states-manship unadorned and thereby adorned the most It Is common cense practical applied Perhaps we have outgrown It all and got so far away from Ibo teachings and examples ot the great men who have gone before that we cant get back to such things now no matter how hard we might arrive to do N But hate we gained much or at all by reason thron |
