| Show investigation of the packers very general interest has been infested la in the government invest tion now in progress into the mode conducting business by the large pack i ers located in chicago a and elsewhere much has been written upon the al 1 lebed e g e d t illegal I 1 1 e g a 1 a and n d I 1 improper m p r modes ot b business u s i a e 0 s p procedure r 0 e e d u r e co connected n n d w with I 1 t h the them packing industry but it seema seems that so tar far no definite charge of any kind haa has been sustained and no proof of illegal or inequitable methods has been dial closed to the public while a wave 0 ot I 1 severe criticism of this great indus trill trial interest Is now passing over ver th the country it might be well to remember that the packers have had as yet nc opportunity to make specific denial the many indefinite charges of wrong doing having never been formulated could bf b 1 so that a categorical answer made i the recent report of commissions garfield which embodied the result of an official investigation undertake a by the department of commerce an labor of the united states was a v vin in di catlon cation of the western packers bu this result having been unexpected at tempts in many quarters to discredit I 1 were made in view of the situation as it no nov st stands ands however attention I 1 may proper propel ly be called to a few facts that owing to popular clamor are now being av aej parent ly overlooked fair breatt treatment nen in this country has heretofore been a a corded to all cithens cit lens whose affairs al a sume prominence in the public eye au an some of the facts that bear upon th re relation la t f on 0 of the packers to the con m tierce e r c e of afie the country ma may r at this urn tim be briefly alluded to it would b difficult to estimate the benefit gains by the farmers ot of lla coultry resul ing from the energetic enterprise c the for whatever Is ot of beast to the farmer is I 1 a gain t to 0 the entill enair commerce of the country and nd co coi necked with their continuous aagre sive give work no feature berh perhaps I 1 aps has bee more important than their efforts I 1 1 seeking outlets all over the world fi to the he surplus products of the farms our total export exports of agricultural proc acts have gained but little in the P pat wenty twenty years and leaving out con cor the total of all other farm product was fan far less in 1903 than in 1891 B bi in packing house products there W wa considerable gain during this because an organized and force haa ban been behind them new and broader marl ets besides the benefits reaped by farn ers on account of the enterprise an ax energy exercised by the packers in s a commercial results by forell trade the great development in tt 0 manufacture of packing house by pro acts has added enormously to ti value of all wie ih e stock raised in tl ta united states the waste material twenty years ago then an expense the packer Is now converted into a tides of great value and as an aa ec tact fact this must corresponding increase the value to the farmer every head of cattle marketed at t tl numerous stockyards of the countr count let these facts be remembered wh will now it Is so popular to regard U great packing industry as deserving condemnation at least it must be a bitted that so tar far there Is no ad quate reason tor for the almost unai howl that may be heard avei where in the face of the garfield I 1 port above alluded to which i ly exonerates the packers from the c and indefinite charges that ha been for some time past made the su eject lect of pop ilar comment amerial america homstead HomM tead |
