MEAT BOYCOTT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 779, 31 March 1910, Page 5

MEAT BOYCOTT.

STATEMENT THAT IT -HAS ■ FAILED.' , ;. :. "A' GENUINE SHOETAGE.,. ■'.' By Telccraph-PreßS Aaßooiationr-OoDTrlßlit : : •■■;,;■ ;'•;; New York/ March';.2o. ,_,The, meat.boycott in the United States is. , ending., i Prices are. higher than at the/outset, of. the boycott, i.; ■ ■'. ;; .Mr..' ,lames ■■. 'Wilson.: 'Secretary for Agriculture,, declares;'.that 'the increase in, the production of 'foodstuffs 'does not keep-pace .with' the increase in population.- : .' .'.:■■■ ■- ■::; ;.■.- :' -■■:■: -.. ,', ■-..-.- ' :..- r ' PRICES AND ; ." ■'• On; February,!) the United States Senate 1 ordered a -committee: to investigate the high cost-of ; living. The'committee,'.of wnioh _Mr. Lodge, will probably be chairman, is instructed, and -empowered to conduct a most 'exhaustive inquiry. "The action of the Senate (writes the ; ton correspondent. .■• of. ! "The ' Times") .nleans , more .than;a doubtless'sincere desire to. probe, a matter which hag: lately been' bitterly canvassed... It is another sign that the leaders .'of'.the Republican partv. are beginning to adjust'.themselves ; to the' , changing- order of 'thinge? . So- far as .politics is concerned they are prompted by '.the. sanio. considerations that make practically certain that: the:; autocracy of ! Speaker. Cannon over the Hoiise is drawing to a close..', , ', "'; . ■" -' ;' ' .'•"■ • "In' the : country Speaker Caknon and his friends in 'the :House,"and. the old Bepublioan Junta, and the Senate , ore identified with the Payne Law. The .new. tariff .was! unpopular from .the : first. IU has grown with tho steady increase of prices thas'winter;"' Mr. Tafft argum'enit in- his ; annual Message thatthe high prices are primarily ;due;to a worldwide movement -upwards has met with favour in many, quarters,, than the assertion of the Democrats that they are due to the taj'iff.- . In view of the Congressional ', elections. next autumn this is an unpleasant.-state of affairs for the Eepublicans, who irill certainly. propon(le-' ,rate upon the. neiv. committee, and will bring ; to ; this'. inquiry something 'more than a mere zeal'for economic , enliglitment.". - ■".'.■;.- . .;.:■■■. ;'. ~:;.' .-.'... ..'. Since the above. was written the new tariff agreements with -,Canada aad Germany;have been concluded. .;■