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Show THE BEEF TRUST REPORT. The report on the Beef Trust is in some re spects astounding. It shows that since the oigan Izatlon of the trust, the railroad charges have been most liberal and still the combine has made a less percentage on the honest capital invested than or tlinary banks exact on legitimate loans But the most wonderful feature is the statement that the reason tho combine has dona no better is because of the enormous prices that live stock is held at Now tho most insistent arraignment of the trust nab been from the live stock men, they declaring that they have been placed at the mercy of the trust and compelled to sell at just what the trust was in the mood of paying. There must be something wrong, some wheel within a wheel, for certain it is that the stock men are receiving much less than they did three years ago, and the cost of meats to consumers is much greater. |