The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-25
1t Seems That the Worst Product
Is the Alleged pure" Lard.
That Compounded With Cotton
Oil Is the Best and Healthiest.
The Cotton Oil Is Always Mixed
With Pure Hog Fat.
The Other, While Being All Hog, is In
Fact Every Part of the Swine
Proceedings OF tho House
Capital Doings.

WASHINGTON, March 24.-When the
House committee on agriculture met this
afternoon Mr.. Cromwell, Of counsel for
Fairbanks & Co., stated that he had sew
eral witnesses whom he had desired TO
call to testify as to the manufacture OF lard,
but II had been suggested TO him that the
testimony before the committee was sufii
cient to show that the industry which was
= asking for protection was unworthy OF the
confidence OF Congress. He would, there
fore, this morning, suspend the further
prosecution Of that line OF evidence and
would drop the consideration OF the pack
ers' lard, and call attention 10 something
more agreeable-refned lard. Prime steam
lard had been shown TO be 80 vulnerable
that further attacks upon II became I'M
necessary TO prove It's inieriority when
compared with refined lard.
Carl Drier, OF Fairbanks 4 Co., declared
that refined lard made from refined or pu-
riGed hog fat, or beef fat, and cotton seed
oil was a nutritive, wholesome food prod
uct. The process OF manufacture was
careful and clean. The opponents Of re-
nltu illti pttl tOttpn
seed oil were healthful and II they were
80, there could be nothing wrong in an adj
mixture Of these articles with hog fat. To
mi ure the expectation OF refined lard by
legislation, which had no other object than
the protection OF articles against another,
should not be thought Of, especially as the
total expectation OF refined lard was about
30 per cent more than that OF the natural
lard. As long as foreign countries admitted
refined lard as an article commerce, there
could be no foundation in the trumped-up
charge Of impure authorizations
VIM. G.. Bartel, OF 81. Louis, testified
that he had been In the pork-packing bust
ness for forty years. and had also been en-
gnged In shipping cattle 10 the east. lie
had recently been in Kansas City and cx-
amined the stock-yards and packing
houses there. At Jacob Dale x Sons he
had found them Strengthening great many
diseased hogs, most OF them suffering
from what IL known M cholera. One OF
the firm told him that but little white
grease Is made now, and also that his fore
man had recently bought 200 smothercd
hogs, which were put into the tanks and
went into prime steam lard. Witness said
he regarded the attack on the manufact-
urers OF refined steam lard as unjust and
unwarranted. lie thought that the inyes-
tigation ought 10 begin ut the root OF the
matter, and show from what truck the re-
finer was compelled 10 make his refined
lard, owing TO the prevalence Of disease
among hogs at the stock-yards. lie could,
rs a pork packer and experienced farmer,
verify all the statements he had heard
about the manufacture OF prime steam
lard. lie had only gone out OF the bust
ness because he could not pursue his bust.
ness any longer and deal honestly. The
tricks of the trade had become No corrupt
during the past few years, that even IN his
order trade with the south he could not
compete with the small dealers Of his own
city.
On cross examination, the witness stated
that when he was in business he neces-
sarily packed cholera hogs, because they
were mixed with other hogs. II was very
difficult for man In purchasing 1000 or
5000 hogs TO detect the cholera hogs
The stock.yards were filed with cholera
hogs today. lie had cut hogs into hams
etc, knowing them 10 be diseased, just as
every other packer did. Everything that
affected hog was called cholera. Meat
OF the cholera hog was not poisonous. II
INC ulttl ol tAllit huutflut nun ifAA1
fever was poisonous half the people In
g. Louis would have been dead long ago.
One OF the crying evils OF the time was the
shipping OF diseased and pregnant hogs by
the farmer lie had tried 10 stop this, and
hal been instrumental In framing bill
for introduction into the Missouri Legisla-
turo imposing penalty upon any farmer
shipping that character Of swine. The
bill was not introduced because Chicago
would not ask for a similar law, aud II
Chicago would not Join with 81. Louis upon
the question the current Of trade would be
turned 20 Chicago aud 81. Louis would he
given the cold shoulder. lie was in favor
OF law which would prevent n packer
from using cholera hogs. lie stated that
the suggestion that he should como here.
came originally from Mr.. Burnett, Of Fair
banks 4 CO., whom he had met accident
ally and 10 whom he had said that there
was more filth In prime steam lard than In
anything else, aud that anything the re-
finer could do 10 Il would not purify u:
In response 10 question from Mr.. VIII
son, the witness declared that tho man
immortalizcs himself, who would frame
legislation, who would prevent the REIN
en and packers from acting Improperly
IN the manufacture Of food products.
III ftIlf w aHu'Htl'Af Wv WIN, - .st't.
that out Of car load Of sixty animals The
number Of boarn, stag and pregnant sow
would sometimes DO none, but At times
would run from five 10 twenty.
The chairman said that while that Nigh
be true Of the 81. Louis market, Il was no
true Of northeast Missouri. Not one farm
or out Of 100 In that section would spoil I
nice LOT Of hogs by putting boar OF a slai
among them. lie did not believe that thu
shipments from Hannibal would average
onfsuch animal In 100 hogs.
Tho Chairman-Did you, while you wer'
packing hogs In ST. Louis, with n larg'
southern trade, use cholera hogs and pu
them Into the food productsi
A. did, and 10 does every other packer
Replying 10 Mr.. Cromwell, witness said h
knew Of no reason why an inspector should
be appointed 10 inspect refined lard II III
cotton-sccd oil and the siearine used wcr
pure. The refined lard was much bette
than the steam lard from which u wa
made.
In response 10 Mr.. laird, witness sai'
that he did not think that the iarmsr ha