The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-12
BEEF FOR THE BRITISH.

Our morning contemporary comes to
the front as a champion of the beef
embalmer and tries to prove by British
contractors that canned beef is an. ex-
cenent army ration. 1t calls attention
10 the fact that THE British govern
ment is purchasing immense quantities
of American canned meats for the use
of her army in South Africa and says
that this is done in spite of the efforts
Of The Herald TO discredit the canned
beef upon which American soldiers
were fed in the Spanish war. Then it
adds, as a part Of its defense of the
administration--who treatment of the
army it were high treason to criticise-
the following testimonial:
BY the way. canned meats have been
used in the army now for thirty years.
They are a boon to soldiers in coun-
tries where fresh meats cannot be OBJ
tanned.
What delightful old humbug our
neighbor is
Of course, good canned meats are
good enough for anybody on the march
or camping out 1t was only the kind
OF meats which were furnished the
army by those "rascally contractors
whom the Tribune assured us a year
ago were more to be dreaded than any
foreign foe that The Herald condemned
il was the meat rations described by
General Miles and Colonel Roosevelt as
'putrid, nauseating, facilitating and
unfit for dog to eat" These are the
coloners own words before the beef
commission. and he testified that such
were the rations supplied on the trans
ports and in that brief but hard cam
paign in Cuba No one who knows the
British war department imagines for a
moment that such goods could be
palined off on its commissaries as food
for British soldiers. Part Of that used
a year ago in Porto Rico had been con-
denned and rejected by British officers.
IT is too late in the day for our neigh
Dor to begin a defense Of NcKinley's
lations
Needless alike of the dissatisfaction
it might cause among the troops or the
aid and comfort the enemy might de-
rive from its utterances a year ago. our
Republican contemporary denounced
the men in control-AIcKinley Alger
Hanna. Elkins & Co.-for running the
health of the men and destroying their
lives by furnishing them improper food
and not enough medicine. It demanded
an investigation then and there TO get
at the right Of this matter and 10 de-
termine whether rascality or imbecility
has been in control Time and again
it rs1erred to the .'irnbecility and thiev-
eI.y' which were sending soldiers to
their doom. 1t said that the forcing Of
offensive meats upon the army was ''as
needless as it was wicked because
there was an abundance of good meat
heing sent abroad to foreign consum-
ers.', Il wanted the American people to
rise up en- masse and hurl the bond
holders from power. No penalty would
fit the crime, it said, and the only way
to get at them was by revolutionary
methods. There is no proper punish
1nent but eight feet OF henp and a
treacberous PLATFORM it declared. and
that declaration was made in a time
OF war with European nation. Our
country stands disgraced before the
world it repeated again and again in
the agony Of its soul, sometimes in
three or four editorials to the issue.
rhe wrongs perpetuated upon our sol
d3er~ ought to be punished with death. y
Nas tase conclusion of another assault