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Show . . - MEAT-PACKING REFORM. When Gen. Miles made his famous protest against the supplying of "embalmed "em-balmed beef" to tho army, he was put under an official cloud. And yet, when he made this protest, there was a good deal known to the public to Justify his words. A good deal more Is known now, and the probability Is that tho processes pro-cesses of the Chicago packers have been going on from bad to worse. Tho facts carried In the reports of the National Inspectors as to these methods are such that it would have been a public outrage out-rage to suppress them. The condoning of the offenses charged by Gen. Miles, the covering up of the evil practices then, are the direct excuse for the continued con-tinued and Increasing evils: of Packing-town's Packing-town's vicious and horrible methods. If the ovlls had been probed and cured then, the subsequent monstrous growths In Inqulty could not have developed. de-veloped. "We are pained to see that President Frank J. Hagenbarth of the National Live Stock Association considers tho exposures made to -be a blow at the llvo stock Interests of the west. It Is impossible to agree with him. Ho assumes as-sumes that wero it not for tho official publicity which the President has given this matter, France and Germany would becomo far more extensive buyers buy-ers of our meats than they are. But it is quite certain that France and Germany Ger-many know of theso conditions before this official publication; and this knowledge by them may easily account for their small purchases, on which he dwells. The way to 'push sales of our meats Is to have them above suspicion of taint; to have their character so well assured and certified that thore can be no question of their Houndness and the cleanliness qI their preparation. " jCo assume as-sume that we can wallow In filth and Impose upon tho world the pretense that we are clean, Is a vain fallacy. To get trade, we must earn the right to it: and Wo always fool ourselves when we think that we are fooling others. Tho present Is an excellent time to push tho proposed packing plant here. It Is timely, and such, plant will be, ns It should, a vast help and relief to the live stock industry of the whole mountain moun-tain region. Here aro conditions that make for purity, cleanliness, and economy. econo-my. No malaria is to be feared, no taint of any kind. The cattle would here bo In prime condition, and they could be slaughtered and packed in such manner as to avoid every appearance appear-ance of even suspicion. And if the upheaval up-heaval shall enforce the lesson that It pays to do things well, so that no fair report can ever disturb the business of packing meiits in tho United States, the meat-packing Industry will be the great gainers. If It shall be left to Utah to point the way In this reform, which Is necessarily tho basis of any extensive and permanent trade, then it Is all tho better. |