Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-07
= posslble Crisis In the Life Of the Beef Crust;
bsory Of the Indictments Hgamst the Great Monopoly

and return them to you in any of the
choice products Of the great packing
houses you may prefer. either the most
appetizing corned beef, dried beef, can
ned meats, butterine, mince meat, ex-
tract of meat or any of the scores Of
delightful preparations we know so
well how to make and that can be made
only by us and that we may choose to
send you, at our price"
From all the healthy and we'll fatted
beef animals that are sent to the
abattoirs the trust makes prime beef.
This excellent product is sold by the
carcass and is shipped to all parts OF
the country. at rates obtainable only
by the trust. This is sold to the con-
sumner from the block at prices which
are fixed by the trust or Its agents. II
one has the money, he may purchase
still as good a cut Of porterhouse steak
as ever ministered to the epicurean
taste of his ancestor. Let him never
believe. however, that a single pound
of prime beef ever enters into any OF
the myriad products and ingenious food
makeshffts which come from the pack
ing houses. Good beef is the same to-
day as ever; 1t Is only :ts price that
has altered and has made it's use all
most prohibitive. That fact has con-
tributed greatly to the advantage OF
the trust, by creating market for the
food inventions which it has evolved.
1t has also provided market for all
the hitherto unmarketable stock in the
country. At first thought this would
seem to be an act Of unparalleled good
ness and generosity Further investi-
cation proves 1t to be one of the most
venal schemes ever devised against the
welfare Of the human race. The con-
dition Of the poorer classes of cattle
nowadays shipped to be slaughtered for
canning and kindred purposes is fear
full to contemplate. The revelations
brought about by the investigation into
the food supply issued as rations to
the American army during the Spanish
war are still fresh in the memories Of
those who made that campaign, and
there is not the slightest evidence to
show that there has been reform.
This low grade and formerly unmar-
ketable class of animals, technically
known as Gamers" has become the
most profitable division of the packing
house industry. On account Of the
cheapness of handling and the facili-
ties at hand for utilizing the byprod-
ucts, such carcasses are almost clear
profit. II the beef trust were COM
PEELED to abandon all further traffic in
prime and legitimate meat food 1t
might still reap an immense profit from
the manufacture Of the hundred and
one alleged dainties that come from its
factories.
In every civilized country on the
earth except the United States the gov
eminent provides adequate inspection
of all animals slaughtered for food pur-
poses. There Is also nominal inspection
in America. but owing to the vast num-
Der of carcasses to be inspected and
the limited number of inspectors pro-
vided the operation is little less than
farcical. At the Chicago stockyards
the number of animals received in one
week sometimes approximates 100000.
and there are only fifty inspectors.
This would mean, If it had rational
meaning that every inspector. working
eight hours a day. must inspect two
animals a minute.
Oliver e. Pagin, assistant attorney
general, who has co-operated with the
northern Illinois district attorneys Of
flee In preparing the indictments. Is an
expert at such duties. He was former
ly an assistant in the Chicago Office
and was called to Washington by At
torney General Knox. He has pre-
pared the papers in great number OF
special cases for the government, one
Of them being the land fraud litiga-
ton in Oregon. He is forty-five years
of age and is an authority on criminal
indictments.
Charles E. Morrison, district attorney
for northern Illinois. has been resi-
dent Of the state since early boyhood.
He is graduate of the Union College
of Law of Chicago and began practice
at Dixon, ILL., He was assistant dis
trict attorney under Sol Bethea and
succeeded that able jurist.
JULIUS E. MOORE.