Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1908 — PACKERS IN CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

PACKERS IN CONVENTION

Several Hundred Men Engaged in the Meat Industry Assemble at Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 13.—-Rejoicing tn the year’s cessation of “muck raking” the American Meat Packers’ association opened its third annual convention in the Grand Pacific hotel. Between 500 and 600 delegates, representing the proprietors and managers of plants from all over the country, were present when Prisedent James S. Agar called the meeting to order. He “took a whack” at the “muck-rakers” who, he said, attacked many things that existed only in their imagination. The new meat inspector law which was indorsed by the executive committee, which announced that it had defeated the Beveridge bill to place the cost of meat inspection on the packers. Editor George L., McCarthy, of the National Provisioner, enlarged upon the value of the packer to the farmer: “The Intelligent, thinking farmer reallees what the modern packinghouse business means to him,** said McCarthy. “Others are sometimes led away by demagogic talk from knowledge of true conditions. Only a few years ago the farmer had either no market for his Jive stock, or it was an erratic one, or he was at the mercy of the slaughterhouse buyer. Now he can ship bls animals to market, sell them on a market basis, and get his money for them the same day.”