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Show THOUSANDS ARE KILLED BY POISONOUS MEATS General Miles Tells Again the Story of tlte Embalmed Beef Scandal Meats Made the Soldiers Sick. Kansas City. General Nelson A. -Miles, In nn Interview hero, said: "Tho disclosures about beef and! -other packing house products now being be-ing exploited nro no news to me. I know It seven yenrs ngo. I told what I know then. Hnd tho matter been tnkon up at that tlmo thousands of lives would havo boen saved. Tho adulteration ol lood products is tho colossal crime of tho times. "I bollovo that 3,000 United Statcb soldiers lost their lives because of ldultcrated, impure, poisonous meat. Thero is no wny to estimate the num- ' ber of soldiers whoso health was K ruined by eating Impure food. I know it only of Its harvest among tho soldiers ' and can only guess how mnny lives It has cost tho republic. "I havo a barrel of testimony on tho subject In tho way of affidavits that I collected when I mado my Investigation Investiga-tion seven years ago. Tho Invcstlgat-lng Invcstlgat-lng committee closed tho enso and refused re-fused to hear 200 witnesses whom I hnd ready. At that tlmo I could havo secured tho testimony of 100,000 men that tho canned beef sold to tho nrmy was Impure, adultorated and unwholesome. unwhole-some. Lv "In my Investigation of 'embalmed beef during tho Spnnlsh-Amerlcnn wnr I found thnt poisons wero being used to preserve mcnt. My first Intimation Inti-mation of tho practice camo to mo In reports from commnndlng officers to tho effect thnt tho rations wero not wholcsomo nnd were making tho soldiers sol-diers sick. I ordered nn Investigation nnd learned from tho reports brought to mo that canned meat had boon sold to tho nrmy that had been for months In tho wnrehouscs of tho Rnltimoro Sc. Ohio ralh-oad and at tho docks In Liverpool. Liv-erpool. "This mcnt hnd been re-labeled nnd sold to tho United Stntcs for soldiers' rntlons, I turned tho reports over to tho wnr department nnd n whitewashing whitewash-ing investigation was instituted and successfully carried out. Tho ofllcial report was that a 'colossal error' had been made. As n matter of fact it was a colossal fraud, and tho persons who perpetrated it and were interested in It should hnvo been sent to the penitentiary." |
