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Show I UPTON SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK Author of "The Jungle" Faces Prince of Packers With Awful Array of Pacts Calcu ated to D.stroy the - 'I B In a recent Issue of tho Saturday Bfl Evening Post Mr. J. Ogdcn Armour H, makes tho assertion that tho govern BK mcnt Inspection of tho beof trust BJ slaughter-houses Is nn Impregnable Bl wait protecting tho public from lm- Bfl pure meat, and that not an atom of Bfl dlscasod meat finds Its way Into tho B products of the Armours. Mr. Up- Bfl ton Sinclair, author of "Tho Junglo" Bfl ( a terrific statement of packing Iiouho Bfl conditions), atudlod the meat Industry Bb for two years, Including much time g Bfl spent In the Chicago stockyards bb a Bfl workman: ho Is the host equipped Bfl outside authority on stockyard condl- Bfl tlons. In Everybody's Magazine for Bfl May Mr. Sinclair makes a startling Bb and convincing answer to Mr. Ar- Bb moiir'a assertion. Commencing with BJ the statement that J. Ogdon Armour Bfl U the absolute and not tho nominal Bfl bead of the great packing houso In- BJ dustry which bears his name Mr. Sin- Bfl clalr says: "I know that In the 81810- Bfl menta quoted, Mr. Armour willfully BJ and deliberately states what ho nbso- BJ ;lutely and positively knows to bo BJ falsohoods." J That ho might bo properly equipped BJ to describe conditions In "Packing- BJ town'" Mr. Sinclair worked for n BJ period is a laborer In tho plant of Ar- BJ mour & Co., and ho tells of sights of BJ filth and horror such as ho hopes BJ never to seo again, but tho strongest BJ coincidence of the truth of tho claim BJ that meat unfit for human food Is put BJ on the market comes from a man for BJ yearn superintendent at Armour & BJ Co.'s Chicago plnnt, Thomas P. Dolan, BJ of DoBton. Mr. Sinclair In his article BJ BJ "At tho tlmo of tho ombnlmcd-bccf BJ scandal at tho conclusion of tho Span- BJ lsh war, when tho wliolo country was BJ convulsed with fury over tho rovcln- BJ tlons made by soldlors and ofllcers BJ (Including Gen. Miles and President BJ Roosevelt) concerning tho quality of BJ moat which Armour & Co. had fur- BJ ntsltod to tho troops, and concerning BJ jtho death-rate which It had caused, BJ ithe onormlty of tho 'condemned-meat BJ Industry' becanio suddenly clear to BJ ono man who had formerly super- BJ vised It. Mr. Thomas P. Dolan, then BJ irosldln- In Boston, had, up to a short BJ tlmo pc loiis, bton a superintendent BJ nt Ar:-?ur & Co.'s, and ono of Mr. BJ Philip I). Armour's most capablo and BJ trustel men. When bo rend of tho BJ dentli-ro In the nrmy, ho mnde nn BJ aflldavlt concerning tho things which BJ1 wore dono In tho establishment of Ar- BJ mour & Co., and this ndldavlt ho took BJ to tho Now York Journal, which pub- BJ llshed It on Mnrch 4, 181)9. Hero nra BJ Bonio extracts from It: BJ "Thore were many ways of getting BJ around tho Inspectors so many, In BJ fact, that not mora than two or threo BJ v rnttlo out of 1,000 wcro condemned. BJ I know exactly what I am writing BJ of In this connection, as my particular BJ Instructions from Mr. V. E. Plcrco, BJ Fupcrlntcndent of tho beef houses for BJ Armour & Co., were very espllclt and BJ definite BJ 1 "Whenever n beef got past tho yard BJ Inspectors with a enso of lumpy jnw BJ rind enmo Into tho Blaughterhauso or BJ tho 'ktllng-hcd,' I wns authorized by BJ Mr. Plerco to tnka his head off, time BJ removing tho ovldonces of lumpy Jaw, BJ and after casting tho omltten portion BJ 'into tho tank where rofusc goes, to BJ taond tho rest of tho carcass on Us I BJ jway to market. j B "I have Fee n ns much ns -10 pounds BJ of flesh atlllcted with gangrcno cut BJ from tho carcass of a beef, In order BJ that tho rest of tho animal might bo BJ utilized In trade. J "Ono of tho most Important roguln- BJ tlons of tho bureau of animal Indus- B try Is that no rows In calf aro to bo B placed on tho market. Out of a BJ slaughter of 2,000 cows, or n day's BJ killing, perhaps ono-hnlf nro with BJ calves. My instructions from Mr. B IMorco. wcro to dispose of tho calves BJ by hiding then until night, or until BJ jtho Inspectors loft olt duty. Tho lit- BJ tlo carcasses wcro tlion brought from BJ all over tho paclclns-hcuaj nnd Bklnned BJ. by hoys, who received two cents for BJ romovlng each polt. The pe't3 wore BJ sold for 50 cents each to tho kid-glovo BJ manufac'urora. This occurs every BJ- night at Mr. Armour's concern at Chi- BJ cago, or after each killing of cows, B "I now propose to state hero exact- B ly what I myself havo witnessed In BJ Philip D. Armour's packlng housa with Bl cattlo that havo been condemned by BJ tho government Inspectors. B 1 "X workman, ono Nicholas Nowson Bb during my time, Informs the Inspcc- B tor that the tanks aro prepared for tho BJ reception of tho condemned cattle and BJ that his presence Is required to eco BJ tho beef cost Into tho steam-tank. Mr. B Inspector proceeds at once to tho plnco Bl indicated, and the condemned cattle, i liaring been brought, up to tho tank-1 I room on trucks, aro forthwith cast Into the hissing steam-boilers and disappear. dis-appear. "Hut tho condemned steer does not stay In the tank any longer than the tlmo required for his remains to drop through the boiler down to the floor below, where ho Is caught on a truck and hauled back again to the cutting-room. cutting-room. Tho bottom of the tank was r opon, and the steer passod through the aperture. "I have witnessed the fanli many times. I havo seen tho beef dropped Into the vat In which a steam-pipe was exhausting with a great noise so tnnt the thud of tho beef striking the tnick below could not bo heard, and In a short time I have witnessed Nicholas bringing It back to bo prepared pre-pared for the market. 1 "I have even marked beef with my knife so as to distinguish It, and watched It return to tho point whero It started. ... "Of all tho evils of tho stockyards, tho canning department Is perhaps tho worst. It Is there that the oattle from all parts of tho United States nro prepared for canning. No matter how scrawny or debilitated cannors are, they must go tho routo of their brothers and arrive ultimately at the great boiling vats, whero they aro steamed until thoy nro reasonably ton-der. ton-der. Ilundlcs of gristle nnd bono melt Into pulpy masses and nro stirred up for tho canning department. "I havo seen cntttlo como Into Ar-n'our's Ar-n'our's stockyards so wenlt nnd exhausted ex-hausted thnt they expired In tho cor-i cor-i nls, where thoy lay for an hour or two, dend, until they wcro nfiorward hauled In, skinned, nnd put on tho market for beef or Into tho canning department for cans. "In other words, tho Armour establishment estab-lishment wns selling carrion. "Thero aro hundreds of other men In tho employ of Mr. Armour who could verify ovory lino I havo written. writ-ten. Thoy have known of theso things over since packing hns been an Industry, nut I do not ask them to come to tho front In this matter. I stand on my oath, word for word, sentence sen-tence for sentence, and statement for statement. "I write this story of my own freo will and volition, nnd no ono is responsible re-sponsible for It but myself. It Is tho product of ton years of oxporlenco. It Is tho truth, the whole truth, nnd nothing but tho truth, so help mo God. "THOMAS P. DOLAN. "Sworn to and subscribed before mo this llrst day of Mnrch, 1890. "OUVILLB P. PUHDY, "Notary Public, Kings County. N. Y. "Cortlflcato tiled In New York county." coun-ty." Tho significance of this statement, as Mr. Sinclair notes, Is heightened by tho fnct that, published as It wa3 In a nownpapor of prominence, whoso proprietor Is n man of Immense wealth mid could bu readied by tho courts, Mr. Armour mndo no move to institute insti-tute suit for llbol, practically admitting admit-ting thnt the btntcmont was true. Mr. Sinclair makes tho nsscrtlon, nnd gives abundant proof, thnt tho worry Incidental to tho "embalmed beef" scandal during tho wnr with Hpnln caused tho dentil of Philip D. Armour, and that millions of dollars wcro spent by tho packing Interests In tho effort to keep concealed tho truth about tho matter. The awful mortality from dlseaso among the soldiers sol-diers during thnt few weeks' campaign was distinctly attributable to tho meat .rations supplied to tho nrmy. Thero scorns small reason to doubt thnt meat ns llttlo fit for human food Is still being placed on tho market. How much disease nnd death has been tho outcome may bo Imagined. Summing up tho ontlro fncts of tho situation, Mr, Sinclair concludes: "Writing in n mngnzlno of large circulation and Influence, nnd having tho floor nil to hlmsolf, Mr. Armour spoko serenely and boastfully of tho quality of his meat products, and challenged tho world to Impeach his Intogrlty, but when ho was brought Into court charged with crlmo by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, lu spoko In a different tone, and to a different purport; ho said 'guilty.' Ho pleaded this to a crlmtnnl Indict mont for soiling 'preserved' nilncod ham In Grccnburg, nnd paid tho fln of 50 and costs. Ho pleaded guilty again In Shenandoah, Pa., on Junt .10, 1005, to tho criminal charge oi soiling adulterated 'blockwclrst;' and again ho paid tho flno of $50 nnd costs. Why should Mr. Armour bo let ofl with fines which are of loss conso-quonco conso-quonco to him thnn tho prlco of a postngo stamp to yoii or mo, instead of going to Jail Uko other convicted criminals who do not happen to be millionaires?" |