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Show BEEF TRUST IS 1 FACING INQUIRY Congress to Investigate Alleged Al-leged "Doping" of All Meats With Slow Poisons Washington, Nov 28. With investigation inves-tigation as to the high cost of living iiinder way by two departments of the (government ami with legislation on tho subject already being prepared, It j developed today that congress will be asifu iu uiuiiiiPli (.up caiaiigu i against the beef trust by Including an inquiry into a charge more serious j than any yet suggested that meats . of all kinds are "doped' with slow-poisons slow-poisons In order to preserve an ai-pearance ai-pearance of freshness and that the I health of the American nation Is being be-ing ruined a.s a consequence The request will he made in a reo lution which Representative H Rob-1 ert Fowler is now completing and in vestlgatlon which he started months ago. V. hen he enters the fisht he I will ho backed UP v,ih statements) from expert chemists and with reports, on chemical tests to which BBmpleE Ol meatfl were submitted Waj Not Immune 'My interest in this; matted comes i from three disastrous experiences I I have had with meat purchased la the market during the past year," said i Mr Fowler "All my life I hs e avoided ment except that which was home slaughterpd and horn cured Consequent , unlike the average American, m.v system was not a- ; customed to flip meat prepared b thr packers and was not immunp to the poisonous preparations with which 1 they are treated About a year, ago after I had brought my family hen decided to have a nie cured ham for dinner I bought the best one I could find In the market After eating it, every member of my family was taken! 111. At another time I bought an alleged al-leged fresh Joint of meat and again we were taken ill. Still later f bought a tongue sandwich in the resta rant in j the house of representath es and It made me very ill 1 attribute these' attacks to the fart that my system, was not used to the dope Treated With Chemicals. "A long time ago I was In the! meat business and It was my experl-' enee that the longer meat if kept the: darker it gets. It is different now i I never knew the reason until I be-1 tame acquainted with a man who had I been In the meat business in Ind'-i ana polls for sev eral years I asked j him how he could explain the perfect I appearance of the meat which I saw-hanging saw-hanging in the windows and which I knew could not be fresh. He said.' That's easy ; they treat It with chem- deals' He explained to me how a man took a syringe filled with chem lcals. jabbed it through the meat to the bone and squirted that hellish fluid Into It. That explains to me perfectly why In every city I see hun ilreds and hundreds of children growing grow-ing up with colorless faces and wth( arms and legs as thin as straws. "It is my opinion that all the meat I that the American people eat is pois-l oned with benzoate o." soda or sul pbides and that the people who are i responsible for this are slowly taking) the lives of millions " |