Shaft said:
WE NEED LESS GOVERMENT,PERIOD
Now Hay Maker, that sentiment is tough to reconcile with your anti-packer stance. as OT will no doubt tell you, it was Teddy Roosevelt's legislation that spelled the end of the Beef Trust.
Who's going to force the packers to allow fair competition on cattle prices if not the government? You? I'd pay good money to see that.
good luck
The "Beef Trust" was taken to court in 1905 for anti-trust measures but little was done because in the end "Swift" was not dissolved, and the packers still owned the stockyards.
They were forced to give up stockyard ownership well after Roosevelt had left office.
Haymaker is right. We need LESS government intrusion.
Government doesn't solve problems, government IS the problem. Ronald Reagan
Robertmac is right also. The refigerated rail cars were the monopoly of the packers, which had started using that monopoly to transact other goods through the rails to gain a bigger marketshare of all goods.