15 SEPTEMBER 1906, Page 24

The Packers and the People. By J. Ogden Armour. (T.

Werner Laurie. 6s. net.)—Mr. Armour, who, we allow, has every right to be heard, defends the packers. All that has been said against them is, he tells us, the expression of sheer malignity or greed. Everything that is done is quite perfect. In fact, there never was a trade so skilfully and righteously conducted as that of the Chicago packers. The only qualification that we can find—and we are not sure that it is intentional—is the adjective "large." The "large packers" do all these good things, and do not do the evil ones. Well, it is a little bard to believe that all the agitation is the work of a "yellow Press."