Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 28, 1914, Page 12

(Written Specially For The Bulletin.) 1s it any wonder that meat is high when you consider the fact, reported 18,000,000 meat animals in the countr: as compared with the supply in 1910, —only four years ago? That is to say, while the population of the country has increased during that four years by some 7,000,000, the number of beef, mutton and pork an- imals has actually decreased. Taking 100 comsumers as a unit, the depart- ment reports that for each such hun- dred there are today nine less beeves, seven less sheep and three less hozs than in 1910, We've been talking a little, lately, about the farmefs’ epportunity alons the line of increased production. Here is something with a direct bearing on that contention. Meat is scarce. For that reason,— en if there were no other,—it would high. The source of all meat is on the farms. The reason there isn't enough is_that farmers don't raise enough. Therefore, by old-fashioned rules of logic, farmers are responsible for the scarcity of meat. This looks, first off, like a coppere riveted sort of argument. ' I'm not go- ing to deny that it is a real argument. It is perfectly manifest, anyway, that the reason why meat animals are secarce {s that not enough are raised. It is just as clear that, if we had pitched in and raised 18,000,000 more than we have there wouldn’t have been any scarcity as coripared with 1910, Furthermore, thewa is no doubt that, if we had thus ratesd that extra 18,- 000,000, we could have got a big lot -of money for them. This is a stromg point in favor of increased production. And I want you 10 see it clearly because it tends, when Wiewed alone, to moisten up my pre- vious preachment in favor of just that sort of thing. Bat I'd rather be fair and square in my argufyin’ than score peints, I don’t wan: to hold up, as a shield, an argument which holes in it through which semsbody could prod mse sorely, ; ASM this very one hee severai holes n it Don’t fail to notice that theme's a @i batween a scarcity of meat and high prices for meat. The two things are really very dif- ferent propositions, An Hiaen hoe ke e he sapply o pri ouid wat ol Yy, it 4o his supply exceeded or ran short of the demand, 1t was » yery nmice theory, and it werked like a charm in those cages It ‘seems to make a bigfim ‘who the price is going to, rises with lessened or no\‘_ is no reason -to suppose, from visible in the way of facts, that the farmers who must raise meat “the cost iy ineraaged mors ity the io- cuesge in the selling price of live- 1 am in the Neeessity of PRod 1 have 2614 off my shaep and Telped mut- Simply because it had got so they cost me more than they came to. 1 like sheep; but I can't afford to keep them as pets at a continual ex- pense. ‘When I started my little flock, some twenty years ago, I could get more for their wool than I can now. And I was paid regularly the same price per hun- dred for my spring lambs, on the hoof, that I was paid for the last batch I sold, a vear ago this spring. At that time the price of dressed lamb from the butcher’s block or cart to the con- sumer was less than one-half what it was last spring. I had to pay almost double, per hundred, for the grain I was compelled to buy to feed them, and much more than double for the hay, if any shortage of my own en- forced me to buy that. it iamt any part of our duty, as farmers, to raise stuff at a loss, in that other folks may make by handling it. Or in order to supply the market as a charity, elth- er. 1 don't say that the butchers of my vicinity, who, twenty years ago paid six cents a pound for live lamb and sold hind-quarters at eighteen cents, are making more money now, when they offer me the same six cents 2 pound for live lamb and ask thirty- five cents for hind quarters. It may be that their expenses have increased iu even greater ratio than mine. I'm not a butcher and don’t understand the butcher’s business. But 1 do under- stand that there is a tremendous scarcity of lamb: that there jsn't any- thing like enough to go round: and yet that the market won't pay me, tke lamb producer, one penny more for raising a lamb than it paid me twenty vears ago, when lambs were not scarce and consumers were paying oniy. about half present prices for the dressed meat. And it won't pay me as much now as then for the mother ewe's wool. At the same iime I have to pay more for what they consume, whether I pay it to the grain dealer for imported feeds or to the hired man for home- grown fodder. v My case, with variations, is the case of the average meat producer from one end of the country to the other. While meat is high and scarce and con- sumers have to pay exhorbitant prices for it, the men who alone can produce the meat on the hoof are getting lit- tle if any better prices than a score of years ago, and ere making smaller profits. Theretore, they are going out of the business, here and there and every- where. Therefore, they will continue to go out of the business, until there is @ change in eur distributing syetem, 50 that they can again secure a profit from their business, or, at least, days’ wages for their work. Pork is the enly meat preduct for which the pig-raiser gets any mark- ed advance over former prices, And the sheortage in pork is shown 'by the department’s figmres to be less than in any other form of mea’, The hog men are getting neamer to a decent share of the increased price of pork. There- fore the supply of pork has diminish- ed less than that of beef or mutton. There’s no function of gevernment which touches so clogely and affects so vitally the weil-being of both the great armies of producers and con- sumers as this_question of food dis- tribution from food-producer to food- eater. And yet, while we can ail get as ex- cited as boys at a ball game over some petty question of partisan poiitics which isn’'t really of any earthly im- portance to us, we can't and won't take interest enough in this fundamen_ tal matter even to understand it— much less, to command our govern- ment to do a little governing along | practical lines. In truth the long end of the lever is in the hands of the consumers. is they who are really suffering most, because it is they who have to pay ‘the high prices. We producers don’t get them, which is bad enough, but not so umpleasant as having to pay them. How long the consumers will stand it is for them to say, rather than for us. ‘Whenever they get ready to cleam out the roads between them and us, and give us the chance to make any #ort of profit by serving them, we'll meet them half-way and a lictle bet- er, But, until enough of their money geis to me to pay me al least day's wages for raising their meat, I for one shail net raise their meat. Nor can any farmer be expected to, The laborer is woethy of his hire, Moreover, he has the right te put that hire inte his ewn pocket—not have it filched by a hundred pair of hands srabbing at it between paymaster and payee. the THE FARMER. Avoid Impure Milk for Infants ana Invalids HORLI ICK’ It means the OriginalL and Genuine MALTEDJ& MILK Rich milk, malted graia, in pewder For infants, invalids and grewing children 3 m Pumn\lnnan.whflh'dnwhk invigerates nursing mothers and the Agrees with the weakest digestion. Keep it on your sideboard at hems. A quick lunch prepared in a minute. OW™ Take no substitute.? Ask for HORLICK’S. HORLICK’S Contains Pure Milk It | | | occasion to s good | | methods adopted $22.50. Suit now? THIS IS THE LAST DAY Of Our Successful LADIES TAILORING SALE Suits to Order $22.50 Since our sale started last week we have added several more models, making your selection almost without limit as regards to any style you may prefer. From our superb display of over 100 choice Spring and Summer Fabrics you may select a severely tailored model, a demi-tailored or an elaborately trimmed style and we will make the same to your measure now for The woman or miss who contemplates the purchase of a new Spring Suit will do well to leave her order now. There is nothing gained by waiting. Styles are authentic Suits are made better now Price is from $8 to $12 less now The Suit is ready when you want it Perfect fit and finish guaranteed OUR ONLY RESTRICTION Orders must be received before March 1st, as prices ad- vance after this week. Why not select your Spring Manhaltan 121-125 Main Street “Where Shopping is a Pleasure” Z > It was evident at the recent city of common council committee on nm new municipal building placed responsibility for the mistakes and o the work on the building up to ed in conjunction with the comurittee. it was so. It is perhaps well that | stated | that confession w e soul and avknowledged that mistakes had been made, and in connection there- k words ef praise for Tinker and the associates on the citizens' committee. Members of the common council took but very little part in the proceedings. While every citizen at the meeting realized that the building should be mpleted without delay and for that reason favored the required appro- priation, some of them attacked the in_the construction of the building and the fast and loose play with the contractor, who was awarded the original contract without bond and fell into ali the additiona] work and without competition. Ex-Alderman Thomas W. Casey at- tacked themethods of the commitiee in the plainest terms ana stated in- stances to show not only mistakes but {he grossest of mismanagement, giving tne names of parties who serv- ed their private ends at the expense of the city. He accused the contractor of incompetency and showed where dimension stones were taken out in excavation and used in another build- ing by a contractor who was super- intending the excavation for the mu- nicipal building. He even intimated that the building was not being prop- erly constructed. Mr. Casey is a granite manufacturer and contractor and could talk shop in a way that made it plain to even those who could not tell the difference between a di- mension stone and a plece of rip- rap. As Alderman, Mr. Casey was the right bower of Mayor Armstrong, un- der whose administration the munici- pal project originated and would have neen carrfed to successful issue, in keeping withthe Armstrong busi- ness administration, but for the oppo- sitlon of those who sare now head, neck and heels in the present muni- cipal building construction. Mr, Ca- sey quoted a volume of facts relating to the early history of the prepesed building, with which he was fa- miliar, showed where, in his opinion, thousinds of doilars of the people’s money hed been wasted, and ali to belittle the business administration of Mayor Armstvong. Mr. Casey speke at length and there was none te con- tradiet what he said. Truth seem- ed to prevail in that instance. when it came dewn the r on of and furnishing of the building, includiug the grading, Mr. Casey, nor any other fman, was sirong in eppesilion, fer all agreed thai Lhe with explained in detail the experi- ences to date, and the necessity for | the recommended appropriation for the completion and furnishing of the | the statements being sirengthened by the remarks of Geo, S. Palmer, nother member of the | ciilzens’ commitiee, who declared that, in lils opinion the money had been hos y expended, and if not he was ready to make good what had not been expended regularly and honestly, the appropriation of $7 000 was made practically without c position. Mayor Mahan presided and he, too, had a word or two te say, in the line of honesty in construction, and teok meeting in New London that the court | and with rors of judgment in connection with | Charies W. Comstock was candid { NEW LONDON'S MUNIGIPAL BUILDING Members of Committee Explain and Appropriation of $72,000 More is Made—Mahan Asked to Support Com- stock For Governor But Makes no Promises. building must proceed to completion the least possible delay. When announcement was made in ublic print _in New London that ate p the | for governor on tne democratic ticket citizens’ commitiee that was appoint- | it was treated lightly and as a sort of aforesaid | joke on the legal gentleman who, as chairman of the state central commit- | | tee and & plain every day member for, many years, was among the recogniz- ed leaders of the party. Mr. Com- stock was deposed as chairman of the committee a couple of years ago but that did not in the least lessen his rdor for the success of the party that he had helped to strengthen for many years. But few, if any. in this section really believe that he was even mak- ing a gum shoe canvass for the nom- ination. Smaller men _ than Mr. Comstock have fiiled the office of gov- ernor of Connecticut and they are but few men that know more of state affairs, politically, and otherwise, than this same Mr. Comstock, and there are but very few, if any, who can give him any points on legisla- tive work, for what he does not know about the game of politics is not worth playing. According to the leading democratic olitician in the ity of New ondon, and perhaps in the state, there is no need to mention the name, Charles W. Comstock is actually out for the nomination for governor' on the demoeratic ticket. Mr. Comstock and s local politieian have not been in training {n the sgameé company of late, but years ago they were a united working team. Within a short period Mr. Comstock broached the subject to Mayor Bryan F. Mahan, reminded him of the good potitical work they had ac- complished together, and suggested that he assist in getting the nomina- tion for govermor for the gentleman from Montville and Norwich, Mr, Comstock is deserving of party sup- port and if he really wants the nomi- nation it should be handed out to him. He i{s one of the best known demo- crats in the state is known to some democrat in every city, town village ! and hamlet in the state, personally known, and perhaps the action of the democratic convention nominating Mr. Comstock would meet with democratic | approval. While Mr. Comstock is a big man it is not believed that the party he rep- resents is large enough to elect him governor. The nomination would be satisfying to the republican party and it's a eafe bet that If the republicans were permitted to make the demo- cratic nomination that Mr. Comstock would be the nomines, even if they would not work and vote for his elec- tion. Mayor Mahan did not say whether he would support the candid- acy of Mr. Comstock In the next dem- ocratic slate conveation, Strive Always for Highar Things, Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing—when there I8 not ferever beating at the doors of his soul seme | great desire to do semething larger which he kaows that he was meant and made to de.—Phillips Brooks. N6t All Sueceed. One hears a gneat dea! of the eoun- try boys whe make weed ia the great -ities, but there are a mumber of oth- | ers who go there and get less publie ity —~Atchison Gleba Relieved inute. Money back it Tals. " Get a 250 or 5o tabe of KONDON’S Catarrhal’ Jelly o e Et TR R Komdon lh-t'& Minneapolis, Minn. TRAVELERS’ DIRECTORY New London (NORWICH) Line —To— NEW YORK STEAMERS CHESTER W. CHAPIN NEW HAMPSHIRE o Soose thls oute mexi uie you Ko W York. 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