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Show COMMISSIONER QARFIEtD'S REPORT RE-PORT ON DEEF INOUSTRY. The report ot Commissioner (lar-field (lar-field on the beef Industry hns at laat been published It must be somewhat some-what of a surprUt to those who havo been Indulging la wholesale adterso crltlcltm upon tho mcthodi ot tho Chicago packers, at It discloses facta and figures which clearly show that tho great food product rs have been Innocent of Iho serious offense with which they hate been cl'arged They hate been for a long time accused by newspapers all oter the country of extortionate prices demanded, nnd obtained, ob-tained, ot depression of values of cat-tlo cat-tlo nt the various stockyards whero their buslneae It conducted, of enor moot profits wholly disproportionate to the capital employed, and. In general, gen-eral, of to carrying on their business that the public, under au orgaultud system ot spoliation, wero being robbed for thilr cxclusivo bineflt. We find now, howevor, that not a slnglo ono of theso cAsfgca has been sustained but, on tho contrary, that rigid and searching Investigation, officially of-ficially made, has resulted. In com plcto acquittal tnstend of extortion It Is shown that no Industry can be found where so narrow a mnrgln of profit pretalla thu actual records nnd original entries, en-tries, to which tho commissioner had tree access, showing that the high ett net profit any of tho packers tnado on their sales of beef was two and three-tenth per rent In 1902 and In ono Instuuro that the profit realized In 1001 wat ono und eight tenths per cent. Tho variations In ths market price for cattle arc oxhatutltcly treated and no ovldcnco of any kind wlis ills covered, or even hlntid at, tondlng to how that values ot cattle are In the lllghtctt degreo Improperly affected nr controlled by packers at any ot the chief centers of tho Industry, On tho whole, tho report completely dissipates tho prevalent Idea that firrat fortunes are being amnsscd by llegal and Improper methods cm-ployed cm-ployed by western packers, ahowlng that notwithstanding tho high prices for beef prevailing In 1903 tho butl nest was leaa remunerative than In years characterized by normal tallica, both for cattle and product Ho tayt ' that tho year 1903, Instead of being ono ot exorbitant profits, as has hi en commonly supposed, was less profitable profit-able than usual In fact, during tho months when tho price ot beef wero the highest, tome, at least, ot tho leading packer wcro losing money on every head ot cattle sluughtoted It was nol poatlble to ndtance the price ot beet In full proportion to 'he great advance In tho price ot cattle nt that time" After all that hat been written reflecting re-flecting upon tho great business In tcrest engaged In tho marketing and , distribution ot tho product ot one of tho greatett of our national Industrie, Indus-trie, It It gratifying to nil fair minded people that thu prejudiced attacks I upon It hate failed of verification and tho great wettcrn pacl.eic may be I congratulated for hat In; paused I through such a toartfclug and thnr- i ough official Investigation iinsmlrched , Tho results ot thlt Investigation based at It It upon exhaustive data, officially obtained and verified by ! United State government experts, must be accepted without hesitation, I it the Investigation wna made under tlrcumttancea that guaranteed com pleto accuracy with a possible dlspo-iltlon dlspo-iltlon Indeed, to arrive at entirely different results |