The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1906-06-08
UPTON SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK
Authof OF The Jungle Faces Prince of Packers With Awful
Array of Facts Calculated 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 a truck
and hauled back again to the cutting.
room. The bottom OF the tank was
open. and the steer passed through
the aperture.
Il have witnessed the farJ, many
times. | have seen the beef dropped
into the vat in which steam.plpe
was exhausting with great noise SO
that the thud Of the beef striking the
truck below could not be heard, and
in short time have witnessed
Nicholas bringing II back to be pre-.
pared for the market.
Il have even marked beef with my
knife so as TO distinguish II. and
watched 1t return to the point where
It started.
"Of all the evils OF the stockyards.
the canning department is perhaps the
worst II is there that the cattle
from al parts Of the United States
are prepared for canning. No matter
how scrawny or debllltated Gamers
are, they must 30 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 grlstle and bone melt
into pulpy masses and are stirred up
for the canning department.
Il have seen CATTLE come into Ar.
mours stockyards so weak and OK.
hausted that they expired in the cor.
rails, where they lay for an hour or
two. dead. until they we're afterward |
hauled In. skinned, and put on the
market for beef or into the canning |
department for cans.
In other words. the Armour estab-
aAohhfAA WIS eflllWE NhlEluUs
There are hundreds Of other men
In the employ OF Mr.. Armour who
could verify every line I 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
stand on my oath. word for word. sen.
tence for sentence, and statement for
Il write this story Of my own free
viii and yolltlon. and no one Is re
iponsible for II but myself II Is the
product Of ten years Of experience
Il is the truth. the whole truth. and
nothing but the truth. so help me
God.
THOMAS F. DOLAN.
Sworn 10 and subscribed before me
his FIRST day OF March. 1899.
"oRvILLE F. PURDY.
Notary Public. Kings County. NY.
Certificate fled In New York coun.
~"
The significance Of this statement.
Is Mr.. Sinclair notes. Is heightened
by the fact that. published as It was
IN a newspaper OF prominence. whose
proprietor Is a man Of immense wealth
md could be reached by the courts,
Mr.. Armour made no move 10 lnstl.
ute suit for libel, practically admit
Ing that the statement was true.
Mr. Sinclair makes the assertion.
md gives abundant proof. that tho
worry incidental 10 the "embalmcd
icef' scandal during the war With
spain caused the death Of Philip u.
Armour. and that millions OF dollars
we're spent by the packing interests
n the effort 20 keep concealed the
ruth about the matter. The awful
mortality from disease among the sol.
Hers during that few weeks campaign
vas distinctly attributable 10 the mca,
'a,lons supplied TO the army. There
Gems small reason to doubt that mca,
Is little NJ for human food Il stln
,elng placed on the market. How
much disease and death has been the
outcome may be imagined.
Summing up the entire facts OF the
ltuatlon. Mr, Sinclair concludes:
Writing In n magazine Of large
circulation and influence. and having
he floor all 10 himself. Mr. Armour
poke sercnely and boasuully Of the
Iuality Of his meat products. and
hallenged the world to lmpcach bis
integrity. but when he was brought
nto court charged with crime By the
commonwealth Of Pennsylvania. he
poke IN a different tone and 10
lfcrtnt purport. he said guilty
10 pleaded this to a criminal indict.
nont for selling preserved minced
am In Greenburg, and paid the nno
I $50 and costs. lie pleaded guilty
gain In Shenandoah, Pa, on June
I6, 1905. 10 the criminal charge o.
elling adulterated blockwtlrst:' and
gain he paid the fine Of $50 and costs
Why should Mr.. Armour be- let on
nth fines which are Of less consc.
ucncc TO him than the price of
oslage stamp 10 you or me. instead
going TO jail like other convicted
rimlnals who DO not happen 10 be