The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-05-31
SINCLAIR HAS
BEEN WARNED
Novelist Told Packers Seek
His Life.
WILL TELL ALL THE FACTS
Author Will Reveal All His EVi-
dence if the Public Can
Stand II.
WILL TELL ALL THE FACTS

WASHINGTON. May 81. Upton
Sinclair, whose attack on the beef
packers in his novel, The Jungle"
dealing with Packlngtown conditions
was the entering wedge of the present
crusade against alleged awful abuses
in the packing houses. in d statement
said significantly that he intended to
continue his tight on the biz beef men,
IF the packers do not put me out of
the way"
MIR. Sinclair has received warnings
from friends in packingtOwn, Chicago,
that his life is in danger and that GER
tain Of the packers would stop at moth
ing to halt his campaign.
Interest in the great fight which
President Roosevelt is making against
the so called beef trust is now cen
tered In the demand made by the
house of representatives for tire full
report of Messrs NELL ami Reynolds,
commissioners Of the president on the
alleged packing house horrors in Chi
cago.
Mr.. Sinclair made a statement In
part as follows
AS | told President Roosevelt when
ne asked me, The Jungle is a picture
Of what the workingmen in Packing
town themselves believe about the
place. How much of what they believe
was true.is something TO he determined
10y investigators President Roosevelt
agreed with that view and he sent the
investigators. worked with them in
every way in my power TO help them
to get the truth. turned over to
them every shred OF evidence, good or
bad, which | possessed and left it TO
them to make up their minds about It.
Il have not the least doubt that they
rejected great deal of It, 1t troubled
some Of my friends in Chicago that
they rejected SO much, but it did not
trouble me in the least, because Mr..
Neill had explained to me in advance
that he played the part of the devils
advocate-that he believed nothing
that he was not compelled to believe
by absolutely overwhelming evidence.
II got the evidence from men who
took their jobs in their hands to give
it. | spent not only my own time, but
money also. have been called a liar
aud a knave all over the country, and
If / have been sincere and honest anu
entitled TO vndication.
This being the situa ton, any one
may imagine what felt when l learn
ed that the Beveridge bin was TO be
accepted as a complete remedy and the
report held up ] said to myself If the
conclusions Of Neill and Reynolds could
not be given to The public then there
was nothing for il hut 10 have the
public form its own conclusions Ac-
corlingy ! intend TO give out every
shred Of evidence which | gave To
them. together with all that has come
TO me since,
Il have enough TO last Il week OF
more If the public can stand 1t and the
packers do not get me out of the way
OF course what | have is not one
tenth Of what Neill and Reynolds got
also Nell and Reynolds We're scientific
specialists, while am simply free
lance novelist But | am the best the
public has in the emergency
New revelations made IN, Chicago il
.HHr..
is made in Minnesota, New Jersey
chickens grow in Iowa and Canadian
cheese is imported from Indiana
All England is said to be aroused
( 10y the revelations concerning the
stoclyard conditions in this country
and Labor members of parliament may
I insist on a rigid investigation, as The
English army consumes large guam
titv of American beef