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Show jTHE CASE OF THE PACKING-HOUSES. I When the packing-house disclosures were put out THE TELEGRAM deplored the fact as not only an injury to the ; live-stock Interests, but as producing something before ' whfch all readers recoiled, and which made men's dinners ' and breakfasts less palatable. I We 'expressed the thought that those revelations ought ! to have been before Congressional committees and not pub-lished pub-lished broadcast to the world. Now it seems that one of the experts who helped make that report Mr. Neill, when pinned down to the facts,' did hot know all that he sub-, sub-, scribed to. , i For instance, be did not know there were men engaged In the business who were afflicted with tuberculosis, he only thought so, and the only reason for saying there were other diseases was because he thought he detected the odor of medicine about the place.' It is too bad to have people 1 shocked on both sides of the ocean on such a showing. |