Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-23
Secretary Wilson Claims Regu-
lating Meat Industry Will
Aid Farmers
'NspEcrs SIOUX CITY PLANT
Scare Over Packing House Scandals
Has Largely subsidized and Conf
dence is Born of Government Resu-
iations-some DepIorabIe Conditions
Already Remedied.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Sioux City, Aug. 23.-Farmers and
stock growers of the west and north
west will not lose n cent as a result
of the meat inspection law; the ex-
posures of the packing houses by now
elists and writer's; or by the falling off
in the foreign trade on canned meats.
This was the declaration of James
Wilson, secretary of agriculture, who
arrived In Sioux City at II o'clock
yesterday from Omaha, after inspect
ing the packing houses there Mr..
Wilson spent the afternoon at the
Sioux City packing houses.
Mr.. Wilson said:
1.-THE scare over packing house con-
ditions will adjust itself in a shor.
time. II stock intended for Gamers,
has not been In demand during the
past SIXTY days. believe 1t will be in
demand later and that the farmers and
stock growers Will not lose on this
class of stock. 1t has been said that
large losses would be sustained as a
result Of the packing house scandals.
don't believe that.
"The conditions in the packing
houses have not been what they should
be. / have found that almost every
place l have visited. AS to confirming
the statements of the young author OF
The Jungle / would simply say that
the man who wrote that book did not
know anything about a packing house.
1T is true that l have found some
deplorable conditions. Many of the
packing houses are old, and l found
this condition in Omaha. They will
have to be remodeled. The inyestiga-
ton conducted by our department. of
animal industry and by the president.
thru his commissioners. will result In
remodeling all the packing houses IN
the country, except those recently
built
II am told" continued the secre-
tary of agriculture, that one Of the
plants in Sioux City is an ideal plant.
built in the most sanitary manner. l
am here to see that plant"
Asked IL the railroads would be re-
quired or put to the necessity Of hiring
inspectors to examine packing house
products before accepting them for
shipment, Secretary Wilson said:
while the railroads are made liable
under the new law, they will not be
required to have inspectors at packing
houses where there are government in
spectors. If the stamp of our depart
ment of animal industry, is put ON a
packing house product, that ends the
liability of railroad company.
"On the other hand if railroad
company accepts products which are
not inspected, or ships products from
a plant which has no government In
specton, the railroad company Would
need inspectors to determine whether
the products would pass the govern
ment inspectors"
Mr.. Wilson predicted that better
conditions will obtain in the future He
said his new inspectors are arriving
every day to begin the more rigid in
spection and enforce the new laws.
There will be little or no danger of an
unsophisticated public eating scraps
of tripe Tor pressed chicken, pig skin
for deviled ham and other more or
less palatable substances for the real
thing, but when the government in
spectors inscribe "ham" on a piece OF
meat it will be ham.
Just say l am not talking politics.,
said the secretary. II am not discuss
ing the Iowa situation I was salts
fed that the Iowans would settle the
recent contest in satisfactory man
ner and without outside interference.
l was not mistaken. The republican
party in Iowa knows better what 1T
wants and the decision in the Des
Moines convention was final
But, as you understand, | never
talk notifies while out on official bus
mess.
ITS ~ o'clock, isn't it? That's din
ner time in Iowa, which makes me
think Of a story. One of my friends
visited me in Washington soon after
went there and we had dinner at 3
o'clock in the afternoon. He wrote to
a friend at home and told him that dim
ner was postponed until o'clock reg
ularly, and he supposed If he kept on
going east he did not know when he
would be eating his dinner We now
have dinner in Washington at
o'clock" explained the secretary.
Then his next remark was a bouquet
for Iowa:.
"Never saw such an outlook for
CROPS" he said. II don't see that you
people have thing to complain about,
unless it would be that you will lack
a place to spend your money this fall.
The crop will be immense"
Greatness is to take the common
things Of life and walk truly among