MEAT TRUST.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 565, 21 July 1909, Page 7

MEAT TRUST.

HEAVY FINANCING FOR A BIG COUP. CAMPAICN IN ARGENTINA. THE CHICAGO FOUR. ; IBy Telegraph.—Preßß Association.—Ooprrlght.) (Roc. July 20, 11.30 p.m.) London, July 20. Tho New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the meat packers of Chicago recently issued £11,300,000 sterling of new, securities, with a view to securing the control of the world's market in beef and hides. The Swift Beef Company is spending £340,000 of its two million sterling of now capital in purchasing tho La Blanca Company, Argentina, ; SchwaTzschild and Sulzberger (included in tho National Packing Company, Chicago) foiled to secure the Frigorifico (Argentine) Company. AGAINST ALCOHOL. . V TEE- INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. 1 (By Telesraph.—Proas Association.—Oopyrlcht.) . (Rec. JuJy 20, 10 p.m.,) . London, July 20. Tho twelfth International Congress Mi Alcoholism has been opened in South Kensington. Many foreign delegates are present. Sir John Cockburn (formerly Premier of South Australia)', representing, tho Commonwealth, stated .that children in Australian State schools wero instructed in. the scientific yahie of temperance. Sir H. Tozor > (Queensland) expressed a hopo that the Congress would deal with the question of tho effect of alcohol on native populations.' . < THE PROGRAMME.

;. : During tho past twenty years international anti-alcoholic congresses have been ■ held in various Continental towns.' The. present one in London",was . expected' .to . attract.' about 2000 ' delegates,l' of whom about. 500 would be', from . the colonies and from' foreign ' .The colonial and - most of th& foreign. Governments ■were invited-bv jhe British Foreign: Office to: send delegates to the Congress,'which is. to sit 'till July. 24! The Duke of Connaught is the honorary .president, and 'lie 'will receive tho support of vice-presidents representing the Government, both' -Houses of Parliament; religious bodies of all denominations, tho medical and legal professions, education and the universities, .tho national services, municipal' and com-. :mercial life,and , the organised.. temperancemovement'.' ' The 1 public . engagements, of tho Congress: will include .the inaugural address and reception of representatives of; Governments, sermons in Anglican, Koman Catholic, and Free Churches, and public meetings on the national, social, and - moral' aspects | of' tho alcohol' problem;' Among ; those who have' consented to prepare papers are Mrs. Bramwell Booth, Professor Clouston (Edinbnrgh), Dr. Erno: Deutsch and ph Imri Doezi (Budapest), Herr Gonser (Berlin),. Landesversioherungsrat,Hansen (Kiel), Professor . Hercod (Lausanne), Dr., Holitsoher (Karlsbad)! Eegierungsrat Kogler (Vienna), Professor Laitinen , (Helsinrfors), Dr.\, Legrain (Paris),_ Dr. P. W. Mott (London), Mr. T. Peter;sen :(Ki6l), . Miss .A, W. Eicharason (London), Dr. Eivers. (Cainbri2ge),'; Dr. Philippe Stein (Budapest), Madame Trvgg Helenius4Sappala (Helsinrfors), Miss Cora Frances Stodunrd "(Boston, U.S.A.), Herr Victor (Bremen), Sir T. P. -Whittaker, M.P., Professor G. Sims Woodhead, M.D. (Cambridge), and Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. M*Hardy (chairman Prison Commissioners for Scotland).