THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, JUNE 21, IStlO.
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MISSOURI WOULD
OUSTMEATTRUST
Proceedings Begun Against
Five Big Packing Companies.
CONSPIRACY IS ALLEGED
Attorney-General Asks Court to For
feit Licenses of Offending Con
cerns, and Exclude Them From
State Fine Threatens.
JEFFERSON' CITY, Mo.. June 20.
Declaring that five big meat-packing
companies have violated the anti-trust
law and have been guilty of conspir
acy to eontrol the prices of their com
modities In the States of Missouri. Attorney-General
Klllott "W. Major today
began ouster proceedings against them
by filing quo warranto informations In
the Supreme Court. The five companies
named in the proceedings are the Ar
mour Packing Company, Morris & Com
pany, Swift & Company, the Hammond
Packing Company and the St. Louis
Dressed Beef & Packing Company.
The Attorney-General. In two peti
tions, asks the court to forfeit the li
censes of the offending companies, to
exclude them from all corporate rights
and to confiscate all of such portions
of their property as the court may
"deem proper, or In lieu, of that, to
Impose a fine.
Violations of the anti-trust law and
conspiracy are the charges made
against the Armour, Swift and Morris
companies, while the Hammond and
St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provision
companies are named as subsidiary con
cerns of the National Packing Com
pany, with conspiracy to control the
business In Missouri.
Armour, Swift and Morris are charged
with having entered Into a conspiracy
in 1909 to control the prices to be paid
toy dealers In livestock, poultry, butter,
eggs, dairy and agricultural products, to
'control the prices to be paid by whole
sale and retail dealers for dressed meats
and to control prices to be paid by all
wholesale and retail dealers for poul
try, butter, eggs, dairy and agricul
tural products and by-products from the
business of slaughtering livestock.
Trust Formed, Is Charge.
"These companies," the petition says,
"entered into a trust to unlawfully
regulate, fix and control prices at
which dealers should sell and offer to
cell to the consumer and others all
dressed meats and eggs, poultry and
other products and to control the prices
to be paid for such articles when so
regulated, and unlawfully to limit the
trade In all products with a view to
lessen, restrict, limit and destroy trade
and full competition In the purchase
and sale of meat products, poultry, but
ter, and eggs.
"That in pursuance of an unlawful trust
the corporations have met and agreed
ipon and fixed from week to week and
day to day an agreed price paid and to
fee paid by all persons for livestock
and products which should be pur
chased, sold, or offered for sale in Mis
souri; that prices at which the prod
ucts were to be sold 'were unlawfully
fixed, by means of which competition In
the purchase and sale of meat products
has been lessened, restricted and de
stroyed." The second count of the petition
charges that the three packing com
panies conspired to restrain trade and
destroy competition in the purchase and
sale of meat products, livestock, poul
try, butter and eggs by fixing a price
to be paid by all members of the al
leged agreement and conspiring to con
trol the business of buying, selling and
dealing In packing-house products. Con
tinuing the petition says:
"Through these agreements, trade,
commerce and competition in the pur
chase and sale of packing-house prod-'
ucts have been restrained and the com
panies have obtained control of and
monopolized to the exclusion of all oth
ers the business of buying, selling and
dealing In commodities and products of
packing-houses."
Unlawful Agreement Made.
The alleged absorption of the Ham
mond and St. Louis Dressed Beef and
Provision Companies by the National
Packing Company is said in the petition
of the Attorney-General to have taken
place in September, 1902. The Ham
mond and the St. Louis companies are
charged with having entered Into an
unlawful agreement with others en
gaged in meat packing for the purpose
of restricting competition and prevent
ing lawful trade.
It is charged in the petition that the
Rational Packing. Company obtained
control of the Hammond and St. Louis
companies, which had previously been
. engaged in Missouri as legitimate com
petitors, and that the National has ever
since voted the stock of the companies,
collected the dividends and used the
companies in furtherance of the alleged
unlawful trust.
The Hammond and St. Louis com
panies, through the National Pack
ing Company, the Attorney-General
charges, have become members of the
alleged trust and have been guilty of
abuse of privileges not granted to them
by Missouri.
Attorney-General Talks.
Attorney-General Major, after he filea
the suits, said: '
"The suits were filed as a result of the
examination conducted recently before
ex-Judge Daniel W. Dillon, who was
named by the Supreme Court, to preside
at the hearings. The Hammond Packing
Company and the St. Louis Dressed Beef
& Provision Company are owned and
controlled In every matter and detail
both in the purchase of livestock and In
the sale of dressed and finished products
by the National Packing Company of
New Jersey.
"The National Packing Company, the
hearing developed, is owned by three big
pacKers. swtxi owns seven-nrteenths,
Armour six-fifteenths and Morris two-
fifteenths. While the National owns the
supposedly independent corporations. It
has been holding them out to the public
as separate concerns and competitors in
business.
CURBING WRIT PROTESTED
(Continued yrom First Page. )
before this controversy is settled, is a
sane, practical conservation policy, un
der reasonable regulation, permitting
the development of our natural re
sources in accordance with the natural
laws of progress and industrial growth
Senator Borah dwelt at considerable
length upon the abuses that have been
heaped upon homesteaders in recent
years by special agents of the land of
fice, showing how they had retarded
rather than aided development, and how
their maliciousness had tended ft drive
intending settlers to Canada. He con
tinued: ".cross the line in Canada the home
stead law requires a. residence of three 1
years. The homesteader is also allowed j
an absence of six months each year. If J
nts new iarm rails him in crops or u ne
is pressed in financial matters, as the
settler often Is, he may have a portion
of the year to secure himself from other
sources. The laws are there administered
upon the theory that every man Is inno
cent until he is proven guilty. Here the
land laws are administered upon the
theory that every maifs guilty until he
has proved himself Innocent. There are
today 25.000,000 acres in the West unap
propriated public lands, rich and fertile.
It Is better land and in a better clime
than across the line In Canada, yet it is
known that thousands and thousands of
homesteaders and settlers have been "for
ih Inst three or four years crossing the
line Into Canada seeking homes.
Expatriation Is Preferred.
"They are willing to suffer expatria
tion .rather than try to .get homes under
our system. What can you give us in
return to compensate for the loss of in
dustrious American citizens hungry for
homes? In your blind, self-righteous
cry, your Indlscriminatlng challenge to
the honesty of all you have succeeded In
doing what nothing else could do turned
the face of the American citizen toward
another flag. This exodus is a tribute to
the miserable, expensive system of es
pionage which was fastened upon us by
Ill-formed and prejudiced administrative
officers.
"Mr. President, the West has her fight
to make In the industrial world. She has
to take care of Her people and furnish
prosperity for those who come among us.
Taxes must be raised to sustain county
and state governments. With one-third
of our state in a forest reserve, with our
settlers being driven from our borders
into a foreign land, with our power sites
tied up, with the resources which belong
to those who are willing to take hold of
them and develop them taken from us,
the outlook is not encouraging. If you
say to us that conservation means the
holding of those lands and power sites
indefinitely with a view of securing per
manently the highest possible revenue to
the Government, we will oppose the pol
icy to the end. If you say that conserva
tion means nonuse, no development, as a
matter of self-preservation we will have
to oppose it. But if it means an honest
effort to protect those resources to an
economic and safe use by the people,
free of extravagance and waste, we will
Join you. We do not care how exacting
you make the law to prevent extrav
agance and waste and monopoly, nor do
we care how harsh you make the execu
tion of it. If you will distinguish between
the guilty and the guiltless. But we
senseless outcry against a whole com
have grown weary of -this universal and
munity."
People Able to Care for Matter.
"I do not accept the modern doctrine
that these matters which Immediately
concern the states in their material
and local affairs-can be better admin
istered by a bureau from Washington
than by the people themselves in their
respective states. Neither do I ap
prove of the schemes so . persistently
urged and presented In so many dif
ferent, questionable ways to withdraw
as far as possible these affairs from
the people. It should not be the busi
ness of Congress to devise by ques
tionable methods, by strained, unnat
ural constructions of the Constitution,
some way to take from the people in
the different states either the use or
the administration of those things
which are essentials local and which
go to make up the wealth and indus
trial supremacy of irw state. I do not
believe, either, that the employe of
the bureau, the offtefvr sent among us
from Washington, is any more intelli
gent, -any more competent or trustwor
thy than the people who are at home
in the states trying to make a living
and build up prosperous communities.
I believe, and I am going to continue
to believe, that there is just as much
wisdom, just as much public spirit
among the mass of the people, and
that they are just as capable of devis
ing laws to protect the interests of
their children and their children's chil
dren as are the Federal officeholders.
"The power sites are our wealth. We
have the means to control them and
to dedicate them to the use of the peo
ple. They are a part of the state's
heritage. It Is a violation of every
principle of the Constitution to with
hold them from our use. Mr. Presi
dent, the development of these re
sources, the protection of the interests
of this and future generations in these
resources, must be Intrusted to the
wisdom and patriotism of the people
In the states to whom they essentially
belong. We have shown far more
alertness, far more caution and versa
tility in caring for these matters and
making them serviceable to all the
people than has the Congress of the
United States. We have more reasons
to .deal with them in great caution and
with judgment, and we are doing so.
The theory that these natural resources
in a state belong to all the people in
the United States is all right as a theory,
tout in practice it is u.ierly untrue.
These natural resources belong to all the
people or the united states who come
within the state and avail themselves
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Scalp and Hair Troubles Gen
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. Carelessness.
Dandruff is a contagious disease
caused by a microbe which also pro
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brush belonging to some one else. No
matter how cleanly the owner may be,
these articles may be infected with
microbes,, which will infect your scalp.
It is far easier to catch hair microbes
than it Is to get rid of them, and a sin
gle stroke of an infected comb or brush
may well lead to baldness. Never try
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Manhattan Shirts
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Hats $4 to $10
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of them and to develop and utilize them.
Our power Bites do not in any sense of
the term belong to the people of New
England or New York. They are there
to be utilized by those who make them
selves citizens of the state and join
with others in trying to build up a com
monwealth. It has never been the
theory of our Government, and is not
the true theory today, that these re
sources should be utilized as a revenue
producing proposition. They are to be
utilized by all the people and for the
benefit of all the people, but the people
must come within the state in order
to avail themselves of the use and
benefit.
"o Universal Rule Works.
"Mr. President, conservation in order
that it serve the masses of the people
and benefit a. nation must have a rea
sonable and practical application. You
cannot apply a universal rule nor a
universal theory to all the conditions
which present themselves in the utiliza
tion of our natural resources. You
cannot apply the same law to our coal
il
mines as you do to our gold mines.
lou cannot apply the same law to ou
agricultural lands as you do .to our tim
ber lands. You cannot promote con
servation by treating our power sites,
which to utilize is to conserve, as you
do our coal beds, which to utilize Is
to consume. ,Slr, as to our undevel
oped natural resources, after you have
adopted laws which prevent wastes ex
travagance, and monopoly, laws which
Insure as nearly as human ingenuity
can do so, an economic and. bona fide
use by. the people of these resources,
you have gone about as far as H is the
province or as It is practicable for
the United States Government to go. I
would add to this, however, that as
to timber there should always be the
encouragement and aid of reforesta
tion. This Is something we can reproduce."
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MINISTER QUITS KLAMATH
Rev. Mr. Vallandigham Resigns
When Death Takes Entire Family.
KLAMATH FALLS, June 20. (Spe
cial.) Rev. William N. Vallandlgbam
has resigned the pastorate of the First
Christian Church of this city, and
leaves today for Portland. There he
will meet Major Piexotto, manager of
the Columbia Park Club boys, of San
Francisco, and may go Into work
among the Toys of the country similar
Yellowstone Park Excursion
Saturday, July 9, 1910'
(Leaving Portland at 10 P. M )
via the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co.
AND
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Rate from Portland
79.75
GOOD FOR RETURN UNTIL OCTOBER 31
Which includes rail transportation to and from Yellowstone Park; stage
transportation through the Park; all meals and lodgings at Park hotels during
the five days' tour. - -
Grandest Scenic Trip in the World
Embracing stops at the famous Park Hotels, seeing the Geysers,- Mountains,
Lakes, Cataracts, Canyons, Buffalo, Elk, Bear and other animals in their
wild state.
INTERESTING SIDE TRIPS AT SMALL ElXPENSE
Parties desiring to return via Salt Lake through California can do so for
$29.00 additional, or $108.75 from Portland.
THE FINEST EQUIPPED TRAIN IN THE WEST
will be provided for this event, and will include Pulhnan Sleepers, Diner,
Parlor Observation Car, and all the latest conveniences that go to make the
trip pleasant and comfortable.
Full details, with pamphlet descriptive of the trip, map of the Park, etc., can
be obtained by writing to our City Ticket Agent, Third and Washington
Streets, Portland, Oregon, or to
Wm. McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent
to that which this organization does.
Rev. Mr. Vallandigham has made
many friend since coming to this city.
He has had more than h's share of
trouble within the past five months,
losing his entire family by death wit h-
In two months. Only a week previous
to coming here he lost a boy of 3 years
and he had not been here more than
a week when his wife died. Then his
6-months-old baby was taken to San
Francisco for treatment, and died there.
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To the Traveling Public
The Oregon & Washington Railroad
desires to announce to the traveling pub
lic that its solid steel coaches have ar
rived from the East and are now in use
on all of its trains running between
Taeoma, Portland and all Puget Sound
points.
. It is not necessary to go into an ex
tended explanation of the great value of
the solid steel coach; the public is al
ready well informed on this important
subject. Suffice it to sary that the
solid steel coach will not telescope, burn
or splinter. It is the acme of comfort
and luxury.
The Oregon & Washington Local, leav
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P. M, all are equipped with solid steel
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When You Travel, Travel Right It's
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C. W. STINGER, City Ticket Agent.
W. D. SKINNER, Gen. Passenger Agent.