There was a curious result of this law, similar to what occurred in connection with the law providing for effective railway regulation.

The big beef men bitterly opposed the law; just as the big railway men opposed the Hepburn Act.

Yet three or four years after these laws had been put on the statute books every honest man both in the beef business and the railway business came to the conclusion that they worked good and not harm to the decent business concerns.

They hurt only those who were not acting as they should have acted.

The law providing for the inspection of packing-houses, and the Pure Food and Drugs Act, were also extremely important; and the way in which they were administered was even more important.