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Show Are the Packers Receiving Fair Play? When tho Onrflcld report on tha business methods of tho packers appeared, ap-peared, after eight months' Investigation, Investiga-tion, It was sovcrcly criticised and roundly denounced. After three months ot publicity It li significant that thoso who nttempted to discredit It havo failed to controvort tho figures t contained In that oxhaustlvo docu- ' ment. Tho public Is beginning to no-tlco no-tlco this omlislon, and tho feeling Is rapidly growing that tho sensational charges out uf which tho "Hccf Investigation" In-vestigation" arose.wcre without foundation. foun-dation. If the official statements of the report aro suiccptlblo ot contradiction, contra-diction, a good many peoplo nro now aiking why tho facts and figures are not furnished to contradict them. Tho truth stems to bo that most ot tho charges contain unfounded tenia-tlonal tenia-tlonal assertions A flagrant oxnmpls ot this appeared In a recent artlco In an Ilastern magailnc, to tho effect thst "forty low a banks were forced to close their doors In 1903-4 by Hit Uoef Trust's manipulation of cattK prices," Chief Clerk Cox. of tho banking bank-ing department of tho Iowa Slnto Auditor Au-ditor s office, has tabulated tho Hit ol banks given In the magnxlno nrtlcls and has publicly denounced tho statement state-ment as utterly untrue Ho glvei separately Ihe reasons for each fall-uro fall-uro mentioned nnd officially itatci that they have been caused by unwlii speculations and by reckless banklni methods. It may bo well to smpeni Judgment upon the packers until thl charges agalnit them aro proved. |