Show 7 C i UPTON i SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK author of I 1 the jungle faces prince of packers with awful array of pacts facts galau abed to destroy the infamous industry in a recent issue ot of the saturday evening post mr air J ogden armour makes the assertion that the govern ment inspection of the beet beef trust slaughter houses Is an impregnable wall protecting the public from im pure meat and that not an atom of diseased meat finds its way into the products of the armours mr air 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 best equipped outside authority on stockyard condl pons lons in everybody a magazine tor for may mr sinclair makes a startling and convincing answer to mr ar amours urs assertion commencing with ra the h aa statement that J ogden armour Is the absolute and not the nominal bead of the great packing house in which bears his name mr sin clair says I 1 know that in the state ments quoted mr armour willfully and deliberately states what he abao cutely and positively knows to be falsehoods that he might be properly ye equipped pac I 1 P P ed to describe conditions in packing k 1 alg town mr sinclair worked tor for a period as a laborer in the plant of 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 tor for years superintendent at armour co a chicago plant thomas F dolan of boston mr air sinclair in his article says at the time of the embalmed beef scandal at the conclusion of the span ish jab war when the whole country was convulsed with fury over the cevela eions made by soldiers and officers including gen miles and president roosevelt concerning the quality of jmeal eat which armour co had fur dished to the troops and concerning the death rate which it had caused the enormity of the condemned meat industry became suddenly clear to one man who had formerly super it mr thomas F dolan then residing in boston had up to a short time previous been a superintendent at armour co a and one of mr philip D armours most capable and trusted men when he read of the death rate in the army he made an affidavit concerning the things which were done in the establishment of ar mour co and this affidavit he took to the new york journal which pub fished it on march 4 1899 here are some extracts from it there were many ways of getting around the inspectors so many in tact fact that not more than two or three cattle out of 1000 were condemned I 1 know exactly what I 1 am writing of in this connection as my particular instructions from mr W E pierce superintendent of the beet beef houses tor for armour co were very explicit and definite whenever a beet beef got past the yard inspectors with a case of lumpy jaw and came into the slaughterhouse or the I 1 was authorized by mr pierce to take his head off th thus us removing the evidences ot of lumpy jaw and after casting the smitten portion into the tank where refuse goes to to send the rest of the carcass on its way to market I 1 have seen as much as 40 pounds of 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 eions 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 COBS cons or a days killing perhaps one half are with calves my instructions from mr pierce were to dispose of the calves by hiding them until night or until the inspectors left off duty the lit tie tle carcasses were then brought from I 1 all over the packinghouse packing house and skinned I 1 by boys boy who received two cents tor for removing each pelt the pelts were bold for 60 50 cents each to the kid glove nia Tir ers this occurs every nig agar ir armour a 3 concern at chi tago cago each killing of cows I 1 now to state here exact ly what I 1 myself have witnessed in philip D armour a packing house with cattle attle that have been condemned by the the government inspectors A workman one nicholas newson luring u ring my time informs the inspect tor lor that the tanks are prepared for the reception of the condemned cattle and that bis his presence Is required to see the beet beef cast into the steam stearn tank mr air inspector proceeds at once to the place indicated and the condemned cattle having been brought up to the ta tank room on trucks are forthwith casti cad into the hissing steam boilers bollers and dia 1 appear but the condemned steer does not stay in the tank any longer than the time required for his remains to drop through the boiler down to the floor I 1 below where he Is caught on a truck and hauled back again to the cutting room the bottom of the tank was open and the steer passed through the aperture I 1 have witnessed the farjo tar li many times I 1 have seen the beet beef dropped into the vat in which a steam pipe was exhausting with a great noise so that the thud of the beef striking the truck below could not be heard andi and in a short time I 1 have witnessed nicholas bringing it back to be prepared tor for the market I 1 I 1 have even marked beet beef with my knife so as to distinguish it and and watched it return to the point where it started of all the evils of the stockyard stock yards si the canning department Is perhaps the worst it Is there that the cattle from all parts of the united states are prepared tor for canning no matter how scrawny or debilitated canners are they must go the route ot of their brothers and arrive ultimately at the great boiling vats where they are steamed until they are reasonably ter en j der bundles of gristle and bone rr into pulpy masses and are stirred tor for the canning department I 1 have seen casttle come into mours mour a stockyards so weak and e hausted bausted that they expired in the cor rals where they lay for an hour or two dead until they were afterward hauled in skinned and put on the market tor for beet beef or into the canning department for cans in other words the armour lish ment was selling carrion there are hundreds of other men in the employ of mr armour who could verity verify every line I 1 have writ ten they have known of these things ever since packing has been joeen an industry but I 1 do not ask them to come to the front in this matter I 1 stand on my oath word tor for word sen ben tence tor for sentence and statement tor for statement I 1 write this story of my own tree free will and volition and no one Is ts re for it but myself it Is the product of ten years of experience it Is the truth the whole truth ail nothing but the truth so help r god THOMAS F DOLAN sworn to and subscribed before ry this first day of march 1899 ORVILLE i PURDY notary public kings county N Y certify certificate cate filed in new york couty the significance of this statement as mr air sinclair notes Is heightened by the fact that published as it was in a newspaper of prominence whose proprietor is a man of immense wealth and could be reached by the courts mr armour made no move to insall tute suit for libel practically adroit ting that the statement was true mr sinclair makes the assertion assertions and gives abundant proof that thel the worry incidental to the embalmed embalm ed beet beef scandal during the war with bhain caused the death of I 1 da D armour and that millions of dollars dollard ft ere spent by the packing interests in the effort to keep concealed the truth about the matter the awful mortality from disease among the sol soli i diers during that few weeks campaign to the meat mas as distinctly attributable rations supplied to the army therel there seems small reason to doubt that mead meata as 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 havone the floor all to himself mr air armour spoke serenely and boastfully of the quality of his meat products and challenged the world to impeach his integrity but when he lie w was as brought into court charged with crime by the till of pennsylvania he spoke in a different tone and to x different purport he said guilty I 1 1 he ile pleaded this to a criminal indict 1 ment tor for selling preserved minced ham in greenburg and paid the fine of 50 and costs he ile pleaded guilty again in shenandoah pa on june junei 16 1905 to the criminal charge a 0 selling adulterated blackw birst and again he paid the fine fl ne of 50 and costs why should mr A armour mour be let og ot with fines which are of less conse quence queries to him than the price of a j instead postage stamp to you or roe me instead of going to jail like other convicted criminals who do not happen to ba be millionaires |