Show UPTON SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK I With Awful Author of The Jungle Faces Prince of rackets Array of Facts Calcu ated to Destroy the I Infamous Industry recent of the Saturday Evening Post Mr J Ogden Armour makes the assertion thnt the government govern-ment Inspection of tho beef trust slaughterhouses Is an Impregnable wall protecting the public from impure Im-pure meat and that not an atom of diseased meat rinds Its way Into tho products of the Armours Mr Up ton Sinclair author of The Jungle a terrific statement of packing house conditions studied the meat Industry for two years Including much time spent In the Chicago stockyards as a workman he Is the hest equipped outside authority on stockyard conditions I condi-tions In l erybodys Magazine for May Mr Sinclair makes a startling and convincing answer to Mr Ar mours assertion Commencing with the statement that J Ogden Armour U the absolute and not tho nominal I head of the great packing house industry In-dustry which bears his name Mr Sin clair says I know that in the statements state-ments quoted Mr Armour willfully and deliberately states what ho absolutely abso-lutely and positively knows to be falsehoods That ho might be properly equipped I to describe conditions In Packing town Mr Sinclair worked for a period as a laborer in tho plant of Armour Ar-mour Co and he tells of sights of filth and horror such as he hopes never to see again but the strongest coincidence of the truth of the claim that meat unfit for human food is put on the market comes from a man for years superintendent at Armour Cos Chicago plant Thomas F Dolan of Boston Mr Sinclair In his article saysAt At the time of the embalmedbeef scandal at the conclusion of the Spanish Span-ish war when the whole country was convulsed with fury over tho revel tlons made by soldiers and officers Including Oen Miles and President Roosevelt concerning the quality of moat which Armour Co had furnished fur-nished to the troops and concerning tho deathrate which It had caused tho enormity of the condemned meat Industry became suddenly clear tone ° one man who had formerly supervised super-vised it Mr Thomas F Dolan then residing in Boston had up to a short time previous been a superintendent r at Armour Cos anti one of Mr Philip D Armours most capable and trusted men When ho read of the ticath rata in the army ho made an affidavit concerning the things which were done In the establishment of Armour Ar-mour Co and this affidavit he took to the Now York Journal which published pub-lished It on March 4 1 1S99 Hero are some extracts from It There were many ways of getting around tho Inspectorsso many In 1 fact that not more than two or three cattle out of 1000 wero condemned l I know exactly what I am writing i of In this connection as my particular Instructions from Mr W E Pierce superintendent of the beef houses for Armour Co were very explicit and definite Whenever a beef got past the yard I Inspectors with a case of lumpy Jaw nnd came Into the slaughterhouse or the klllngbed I was authorized by Mr Pierce to take his head off thus removing the evidences of lumpy jaw and after casting the smitten portion into the tank where refuse goes to send the rest of the carcass on its I way to market I I have seen as much as 40 loun sot s-ot flesh afflicted with gangrene cut from the carcass of a beef in order that the rest of the animal might be utilized In trade One of the most Important regula Ions of the bureau of animal Indus try is that no cows in calf are to be placed on the market Out of a slaughter of 2000 cows or a days killing perhaps onehalf are with calves My Instructions from Mr Plerco were to dispose of the calves by hiding them until night or until tho inspectors left off duty The lit tie carcasses were then brought from all over tho packinghouse and skinned by boys who received two cents for removing each pelt The pelts were Bold for 50 cents each to the kid glove manufacturers This occurs every night at Mr Armours concern at Chicago Chi-cago or after each killing of cows I now propose to state hero exact ly what I myself havo witnessed in Philip D Armours packinghouse with cattle that have been condemned by tho government inspectors A workman one Nicholas Newson during my time Informs the hasped tor that the tanks I are prepared for the reception of the condemned cattle and I that his presence Is required to see I tho beet cast into the steamtank Mr Inspector proceeds at once to the place Indicated and the condemned i cattle hiring been brought up to the tank I room on trucks are forthwith cast into the hissing steamboilers and disappear dis-appear But the condemned steer does not stay In the tank any longer than the time required for his remains to drop through the holler down to the floor below where he Is caught on n truck sand I hauled hack again to the cutting room The bottom of the tank was I open and the steer passed through I j the aperture I I have witnessed the fanii many times I have seen the beef dropped Into the vat In which a stenmplpo was exhausting with a great noise so I tint the thud of the beef striking the truck below could not bo heard and In a short time I have witnessed I Nicholas bringing it back to bo prepared pre-pared for the market I I I have even marked beef with my I knife so as to distinguish it and watched it return to the point whero I It started Of all the evils of the stockyards I the canning department is perhaps tho worst It is there that the cattle i from all parts of tho United States are prepared for canning No matter I how scrawny or debilitated canners are they must go the route of their brothers and arrive ultimately at the great boiling vats where they are steamed until they are reasonably tender ten-der Bundles of gristle and bone melt Into pulpy masses and are stirred up for tho canning department I have seen catttlc come Into Ar Tours stockyards so weak and exhausted ex-hausted that they expired In the cor tats where they lay for an hour or two dead until they were afterward hauled in skinned and put on the market for beef or into tho canning department for cans In other words the Armour establishment estab-lishment was selling carrion There are hundreds of other men In the employ of Mr Armour who could verity every lino I have written writ-ten They have known of these things over since packing has been an Industry But I do not ask them to come to the front In this matter oI stand on my oath word for word sentence sen-tence for sentence and statement for statement I write this story of my own freewill free-will and volition and no one is responsible re-sponsible for it but myself It is the product of ten years of experience It is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so Help me God THOMAS F DOLAN Sworn to and subscribed before me this first day of March 1899 OnVILLE F PURDY Notary Public Kings County N Y Certificate filed In New York county coun-ty The significance of this statement t as Mr Sinclair notes Is heightened by the fact thnt published as It was In a newspaper of prominence whose I proprietor Is a man of Immense wealth and could ho reached by the courts Mr Armour made no move to Insti tute suit for libel practically admit ting that the statement was true Mr Sinclair makes the assertion and gives abundant proof that tho worry Incidental to the embalmed beef scandal during tho war with Spain caused the death of Philip D Armour and that millions of dollars were spent by the packing Interests in the effort to keep concealed the truth about tho matter Tho awful mortality from disease among the sol diems during that few weeks campaign was distinctly attributable to the meat rations supplied to the army There seems small reason to doubt that meat ns little fit for human food is still being placed on the market How much disease and death has been the outcome may be imagined Summing up the entire facts of the situation Mr Sinclair concludes Writing In a magazine of large circulation and Influence and having the floor all to himself Mr Armour spoke serenely and boastfully of the quality of his meat products and challenged the world to impeach his Integrity but when he was brought into court charged with crime by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania hi spoke in a different tone and to a different purport he said guilty Ho pleaded this to a criminal indict ment for selling preserved minced ham in Greenburg and paid tho fine of 50 and costs He pleaded guilty again in Shenandoah Pa on tuna 1C 1905 to the criminal charge ol selling adulterated blockwelrat and ngaln he paid tho fine of 50 and costs Why should Mr Armour be let oft with flues which are of less conse quence to him than the price of a postage stamp to you or me instead of going to jail like other convicted criminals who do not happen to bs millionaires |