| Show THOUSANDS ARE KILLED BI MEATS general miles tells again the story of the embalmed Embalm ed beef scandal meats made the soldiers S ck kansas pity cin dewral ral nelson A miles allies la in an ln tiivi hie sid said the s about beet and other i lacking aching house bous it ts now be ing are no aws n ws to me I 1 knew it seven years ago I 1 told whit nhat I 1 knew then hid the matter been tak taken an up at that time thousands thousand 8 of lives would have been saved rho fhe adulteration of tood food producer is the colossal crime of the times lines 1 11 I believe b that united states soldiers lost their lives because of adulterated impure poisonous meat there Is no way to estimate eti mate the num her ber of soldiers whose health was vas ruined by eating impure food I 1 know only of its harvest among the soldiers and can only guess how many lives it has cost the republic I 1 have a barrel of testimony on the subject in the way of affidavits that I 1 collected when I 1 made my investigation seven years ago the dinv inv est igat ing committee closed the case and refused to hear bear witnesses whom I 1 had ready at that time I 1 could have secured the te testimony stimon of men that the canned beef sold to the army was impure adUlte and some in my investigation of embalmed embalm ed beef the spanish amer Ameil lean can war I 1 found that poisons were being used to preserve pie herve serve meat my mv first antl mation of the practice came to 0 o me in reports from commanding officers to tho the effect that the he rations were not wholesome and woe making the he sol deerb sick I 1 ordered an investigation and leir leifried ried from the reports brought to me that canned meat h b id been sold to the army that hat had been for months in the warehouses of tile he baltimore L ohio railroad raili ralli oad and at the docks in liv this meat had been rc relabeled labeled and sold to the united states for soldiers rations I 1 guined the reports over to the aar department and a whitewash ing investigation nas as institute 1 anti and successfully cm emeled i led out the official report was that a colossal colos fial error or had been made As aa a matter of fact it was mas a colossal fraud and the persons who mho perpetrated it and were mere interested in it should linie hae been sent to the pen |
