Show THOUSANDS ARE KILLED BY B POISONOUS MEATS General Miles Tells Again the Story of the Embalmed Beef Scandal Meats Made the Soldiers Sick Kansas City Oonornl Nelson A Miles In an Interview here said Tho disclosures about boot and other packing house products now bo lug exploited nro no news to mo I Know It seven years ago I told what I know then Had the matter been taken up at that time thousands of lives would have been saved Tho adulteration of load products is the colossal crlmo of the times I believe Hint 3000 United States soldiers lost their lives because of adulterated Impure poisonous moat There Is no way to estimate the number num-ber of soldiers whoso health was ruined by eating Impure food I know only of Its harvest among the soldiers and can only guess how many lives It has cost the republic I have a barrel of testimony on tho subject In tho way of anidavlts that I collected when I made my Investigation Investiga-tion seven years ago The Investigating Investigat-ing committee closed the case and refused re-fused to hear 200 witnesses whom I had ready At that time I could have secured tho testimony of 100000 men that tho canned beef sold to tho army was Impure adulterated and unwholesome unwhole-some In my Investigation of embalmed beef during tho SpanishAmerican war I found that poisons wero bolnra used to preserve moat My first Intimation Inti-mation of tho practice came to mo In reports from commanding offlcora to tho effect that the rations wore not wholesome and wore making tho sol dlora sick I ordered an Investigation and learned from tho reports brought to me that canned meat had been gold to the army that had been for months In tho warehouses of tho Baltimore Ohio railroad and at the docks In Ltv trpool This meat had been relabeled and sold to the United States for soldiers rations I turned the reports over to the war department and a whitewashing whitewash-ing Investigation was Instituted and successfully carried out Tho official report was that a colossal error had been made As a matter of fact it was a colossal fraud and tho persona who perpetrated It and wero Interested In It should have been sent to the penitentiary pen-itentiary |