Show new england and and the beet beef trust having bought an abandoned massachusetts chu farm I 1 went there last winter with my boys on the berkshire hills writes S E hatch in farm and home I 1 found it if you buy a place with good buildings and good location you will have to pay for it there are some very cheap places it if you know where to look for them to renew new england farming lands and make them look like prosperous farms and homes they must have protection not la in tariff but protection from the meat packers trusts of the west there are thousands of acres of as good grazing lands as stock needs that thirty years ago were covered with cattle and sheep that are now growing up to bushes and weeds because the owners cannot compete with chicago butchers I 1 asked cannot you sell beet beef cattle so the meats can be sold at the prices we wa have to pay the reply always was yes and for less but chicago butchers wont let us for they put their men in and run prices way down and we have to quit in a discussion in the united states senate last spring between senators hoar of massachusetts and tillman ot of south carolina in speaking of the trusts and monopolies senator hoar claimed the national government cannot restrict them in th the states but the states have the power individually to enact laws controlling them in III that case the new england states should combine pass the same sama laws in each state and farmers can again cover their hills and valleys with cattle and sheep working men can get meats for less than they have to pay now and the western men can sell their meats at a fair profit it if they will put a stop to their conspiring to beat the tha farmers and the local butchers out of their legitimate business for a living that is the protection we want |