Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-06-08
UPTON SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK
Author of "The Jungle Faces Prince of Packers With Awful
Array of Facts Calculated to Destroy the
Infamous Industry.

room on trucks, are forthwith cast
into the kissing steam boilers and dis
appear.
But the condemned steer does not
stay in the tank any longer than the
time required for his remains to drop
through the boiler down to the floor
below, where he is caught on truck
and hauled back again to the cutting
room. The bottom of the tank was
open and the steer passed through
the aperture.
81 have witnessed the fard, many
times. l have seen the beef dropped
into the vat in which a steam-pipe
was exhausting with great noise so
that the thud of the beef striking the
truck below could not be heard, and
in short time I have witnessed
Nicholas bringing 1t back to be pre-
pared for the market.
81 have even marked beef with my
knife so as to distinguish it, and
watched it return to the point where
| it started.
"Of all the evils of the stockyards,
the canning department is perhaps the
worst. 1t is there that the cattle
from all parts Of the Uniled States
are prepared for canning. No matter
how scrawny or debilitated Gamers
are, they must go the route of their
brothers and arrive ultimately at the
great boiling watts, where they are
steamed until they are reasonably ten
der. Bundles of gristle and bone melt
into pulpy masses and are stirred up
for the canning department.
"I have seen CATTLE come into Ar
mour's stockyards so weak and ex-
bausted that they expired in the cor
rails, where they lay for an hour or
two, dead, until they were afterward
hauled in, skinned, and put on the
market for beef or into the canning
department for cans.
"In other words, the Armour estab-
lishment was selling carrion.
There are hundreds Of other men
in the employ of Mr.. Armour who
could verify every line l have writ
ten They have known of these
things ever since packing has been an
industry. But do not ask them to
come to the front in this matter. I
stand on my oath, word for word, sem
tence for sentence, and statement for
statement.
81 write this story of my own free
will and volition, and no one is re-
sponsible for 1t but myself. 1t is the
!, product of ten years Of experience.
1t is the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, so help me
God.
THOMAS F. DOLAN.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
, this first day Of March, 1899.
"ORVILLE F. PURDY,
, Notary Public, Kings County, N. Y.
|, Certificate filed in New York coun-
q ty."
The Significance of this statement,
:, as Mr.. Sinclair notes, is heightened
p by the fact that, published as it was
in a newspaper of prominence, whose
:. proprietor is a man of immense wealth
and could be reached by the courts,
Mr. Armour made no move to insti-
tute suit for libel, practically admit
ting that the statement was true.
Mr.. Sinclair makes the assertion
= and gives abundant proof, that the
worry incidental to the "embalmed
. beef" scandal during the war with
. Spain caused the death of Philip d.
= Armour, and that millions of dollars
= were spent by the packing interests
!" in the effort to keep concealed the
truth about the matter. The awful
IS mortality from disease among the sol
IL diers during that few weeks campaign
II was distinctly attributable to the meat
'e rations supplied to- the army. There
seems small reason to doubt that mea
a. as little fit for human food is still
s. being placed on the market. How
,e much disease and death has been thu
a outcome may be imagined.
8 Summing up the entire facts Of th'
h situation, Mr.. Sinclair concludes:
r. writing in a magazine of larg
IS circulation and influence, and having
ii the floor all to himself, Mr.. Armou
t. spoke serenely and boastfully of tn
m quality of his meat products, ant
ID challenged the world to impeach hi
,r integrity, but when re was brough
re into court charged with crime by tn
ye commonwealth of Pennsylvania, h
" spoke in a different tone, and to
IL different purport; he said guilty
He pleaded"this to a criminal indic'
It. ment for selling preserved mince
In ham in Greenburg, and paid the fin
tn of $50 and costs. He pleaded guilt
by again in Shenandoah, Pa, on Jun
.16, 1905, to the criminal charge G
IN selling adulterated 'blockweirst;' an
&C. again he paid the fine of $50 and cost
he Why should Mr.. Armour be let o
nd with fines which are of less cons
ee quence to him than the price of
lr. postage stamp to you or me, instea
ce of going to jail like other conyicte
lie, criminals who do not happen to
k millionaires?"