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Show " Invest gallon of tha Piekei. Ve (j. ii 1a in' i t ha- i p. nun yll 'e I In the gitrrnn"" tnvltga linn now in progress mm Ihp mole nf conducting bunlnei hy lh laree park ers touted m thlcstjii n.l elst where Much hss . on written upiin thi al leged Illegal am) Improper modes n( bualnraa procedure connected wllh the packing Induatry. bill It em that an far no doAnlte -hargc if any kliul has I 1een sustained and no proof of llleaal I or Inequitable rtethod nan been dla rloaed (o 'hi' piibllr While a wave of fl severe criticism nf this -eat Indus- ' trial Interest l m w piling over the country It might K wel to remember thai I ho par' ura have hail a vet no . opportunity to make spcelAo dental the many Indefinite charge of wrong I doing bat Inn never horn formulated to that n istcgurkal inawr could b a marie The recent report of INimmlesloner OsrAeld. wnlrh embodied the reults of an official Inveitlsatlon undertaken jM by Iho Department of Commerce anil M Iibor of the I'nllod Mutes waa a vln- B dlrallon nf the W stern packera, but Hj tlila reanll having been unexpected at- Hj tempts In many qusrters to discredit It Wf ' were made j In Mew of Ihe attuatlon aa It now n atanda. however attention may pniwr 4 ly be called to n few racta that owing 5 to popular clamor are now being anil an-il pnrcnlly overlooked Fair treatment I In tlila pounlr) baa bcretolore been ( I cordoil to all cltiens whnae affair null nu-ll au mo ptoinlnence In the public eyo and 4 some of Ihe facia that bear upon Ibo 2, relation of Hie pacKcra In Ihe com-t com-t mere of the country may at thin time 4 be brled) alluded to II viould be f flimcult to eailmate the benenta pained i by the farmer of the country reault . Inc from Ihe energetic enterprlae of y the packera for whatever la or benefit to the farmer la a tain lo the entire commerce of Ihe country And con , heeled with their continuous nggree- fllve work no fenture perhaps bna been more important than their efforts In sieeklng nutlet" all over the world for h surplus product of the farmer Our total export of aarlciiltur.il prod- icta have gained but little In the past twenty years, and leaving out. com. , the total of nil other farm products i -wna far lee in 1901 than In 191. Hut In parking limine product there waa considerable gain during ihl period, berniiae an orgnniicd and powerful , force linn been liehlnd them seeking new and hroider market , llealdea the hotioilt reaped by farm era on account of the enterprise and nergy exercised h the packer In attaining at-taining cotnnierelal. reault by foreign trade, the groat development In the manufacture of pin km, houie by prod note hat added t-uorninulv to Ihe , vlue of all Ihe ioek ralrod In the United Statea Tie waste material or twenty year aao thou an expoine to the packer, la now com or toil Inio ar- I tide nf a,reat value and aa an ceo ' tiomle fart, tlila muni correspondingly i : lncroaite the valm- to the fartnur of orery head of cattle marketed at tho liutneroua atnekyard of the count r I,et theae fnita ho remeiiibereil while now II I ao popular to regard the Kfeal pack Ina iniuir a lr'i rtlnn of condemnation At learn t inut be ad inlllwl that o far there la no mle iiale reanon for the nlmoat unnnl-inoua unnnl-inoua howl that ma lie heard eery-where eery-where In the faie of Ihe Darlleld re port nlmve alluded to which practically practical-ly exonerate the packera from the ob laomu and IndeAnlte oharrea that have . livo 1 for aime time paat made the aub- I J'ct of popular comment ltiirrlom Jlomrttnul. |