Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-28
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MOST VILE.
Sinclair Tells Horrible
Story Of Chicago Packers
Wants Trust Exposed.

NEW YORK, May 2s.-"On the Shout
ders of the people of the United States
will rest the responsibility If they do
not demand that the full story of the
! findings of the commissioners appoint
cd by President Roosevelt to inquire
into the workings of the beef trust
be made public"
UPTON Sinclair, author of The Jun
gIe.' whose revelations were primarily
responsible for the introduction of the
bill providing for governmental inspec-
ton of every packing house in the
United States, made the foregoing
statement on his arrival here from
Princeton.
the president urging him not to yield
to the request of the packers.
1.-THE packers have no fear of the
Beveridge BILL said Mr.. Sinclair.
'They know that the whole inspection
system has been declared ~unconstitu-
tional by the United States circuit
court of Missouri and that the decision
never has been reversed or even ques-
toned.
''The present system of inspection is
simply an advertisement for the pack
ers. The pretense is made that their
products have the Endorsement of the
recognized agents Of the government,
when as a matter of fact all their
rascality and all they are so anxious to
conceal takes place in the outside
houses, where the inspectors never en-
ter.
''The slaughter houses of Chicago are
conducted on the principle that meat
once good is always good. | lived there
seven weeks and saw with my
eyes how the business is conducted.
NY amazement excited amusement
among the employees, WHO regarded
everything as much a matter of course
that they could not understand my
wonderment.
"In Armour's, where spoiled hams
are treated in a cellar by a man who
pumps a fluid into them with n foot
pump, the stencil of the decayed- meat
Is unbearable, but ! was laughed at
because | could not stand it.
'"rhere is not n Il of meat in the
Armour establishment that does not
contain borax. Swift & Co. have a
chemist under contract to perfect a
process of deodorizing putrefying
hams. Those spoiled in the smoking
process are sold as No. 3. The ham
always spoils near the bone. This is
taken out, a white hot iron inserted
and the ham becomes il No. /.
"'Skinned hams exploited as choice
articles, are only old hogs so big and
tough as to be unsuitable. hThe'skin
is taken off, ground into paste, flavor
ed with spices and sold as hea
cheese.
"No chickens are used in the Armour
plant for potted chicken. The flesh of
unstable calves is far more profitable
and is used almost exclusively for that
purpose. Not a shred of chicken meat
enters the can. Thousands of pounds
of chemicals are used to dye meat and
to retard decomposition. Old cows, so
nearly dead that they have to be cart
ed, are used for the canned roast beef.
Fifty per cent of them are with calf.
Soup and beef extracts are made from
the liquid drained from their boiled
meat.
II have an affidavit, sworn to before
Alfred II. Jennings, notary, in which
the afiant declares that he was en-
ployed for eight months by Swift "
Go. and had to leave because he could
not stand the business. He has seen
hogs thrown into watts to be dyed red,
so the flesh would be a more natural
color. The commissioners have a copy
of the affidavit"