The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-08
UPTON SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK
Author Of The Jungle Faces Prince of With Awful
Array of Facts Celebrated to Destroy the
Infamous Industry.

In a recent issue OF the Saturda,
Evening Post Mr.. J. Ogden Armou
makes the assertion that the govern
ment inspection Of the beef trus
slaughter-houses is an impregnabli
wall protecting the public from i'm
pure meat, and that not an atom o.
diseased meat finds its way into tn,
products of the Armours Mr.. Up
ton Sinclair. author of THE Jungle
{ a terrific statement of packing house
conditions), studied the meat industry
Tor two years. including much time
spent in the Chicago stockyards as 6
workman; he is the best equipped
outside authority on stockyard condi
tons. In Everybody's Magazine fol-
May Mr.. Sinclair makes a startling
and convincing answer to Mr.. Ar.
mour's assertion. Commencing with
the statement that j. Ogden Armour
IS the absolute and not the nominal
head Of the great packing house in.
dustry which bears his name Mr.. Sin
clair says: Il know that in the state
ments quoted, Mr. Armour willfully
and deliberately states what he abso-
lutely and positively knows to be
falsehoods."
That he might be properly equipped
to describe conditions in Packing
town" Mr.. Sinclair worked for
period as a laborer in the plant of Ar
mour Co., and he tells Of sights of
NTH and horror such as he hopes
never to see again, but the strongest
coincidence of the truth of the claim
that meat unfit for human food is put
on the market comes from a man for
years superintendent at Armour &
Co.'S Chicago plant, Thomas F. Dolan.
OF Boston. Mr. Sinclair in his article
says:
AT the time of the embalmed- beef
scandal at the conclusion of the Span-
ISM war when the whole country was
conVulsed with fury over the revela-
lions made by soldiers and officers
Including Gen. Miles and President
Roosevelt) concerning the quality of
meat which Armour & Co. had fnr-
nlshed to the troops, and concerning
the death-rate which it had caused |
the enormity of the condemned |
industry became suddenly clear 70
one man who had formerly super.
vlsed it. Mr. Thomas F. Dolan then
residing in Boston, had, up to short
time previous, been a superintendent
az Armour Co.'s, and one of Mr.
Phii1p d. Armours most capable and
men. When he read of the
1eath-rate in the army, he made an
imdaV1t concerning the things which
we're done In the establishment of Ar
nour & Co., and this affidavit he took
0 the New York Journal. which pub
lshed it on March 4, 1899. Here are I
ONE extracts from it:
There were many ways of getting
round the inspectors-so MANY in
act, that not more than two or three t
attic out of 1000 were condemned
know exactly what | am writing a
In this connection. as my particular b
Instructions from Mr.. w. e. Pierce il
lperintendent of the beef houses for D
rmour Co., were very explicit and a
ef1nite. n
whenever beef got past the ward q
lspectors with a case of lumpv law q
40 came into the slaughterhouse or
le 'klllngbed,' l was authorized bv a
r. Pierce to take his head off. thus "
knowing the evidences of lumpy Jaw. b
40 after casting the smitten portion )
ITO the tank where refuse goes. TO A
md the rest of the carcass on its W
ay to market. il
nave seen as much as 40 pounds =
nesh afflicted with gangrene cut :, y
ON the carcass of beef, in order u
at the rest of the animal might he v
ilized in trade. re-
One OF the most important regula. as
'ns OF the bureau of animal indus. ~
Is that no cows in calf are to he =,
aced on the market. Out Of :.
aughter of 1000 cows. or a DAVIS "
ling. perhaps one-half are with :,
Ives. My instructions from Mr. 81
cree were to dispose of the calves
hiding them until night, or until ~ -,
inspectors left off duty. The m. VI
earcasses were then brought from ~
over the packing-house and skinned ~
boys, who received two cents for On
moving each pelt, The pelts were ,n
d for so cents each to the kid.slova IN
This occurs every w
sht at Mr. Armour's concern at Chi sp'
co. or after each killing of cows. u ~
1 now propose to state here exact. e
what | myself have witnessed in LAY
Hip d. Armour's packing house with na
tie that have been condemned nv
government inspectors. &c ,e
A workman, one Nicholas Newson sol
ring my time, informs the inspec. 40,
that the tanks are prepared for the WI
option of the condemned cattle and vii
/ his presence is required to see nm,
beef cast into the steam-tank. Mr. nos
pector proceeds at once to the place of
icated, and the condemned CATTLE cr,
ing been brought up to the tank. mil