Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-06-07
Effort to Suppress Publication of
Report of Labor Commissioners.
SINCLAIR URGES PRESIDENT TO STAND FIRM
lie Is Asked to Publish the Neill Report That Awful
Conditions Existing in Chicago Packing
Houses May Be Barred to Public.


Smoke colors' explain in their circu-
lars that the use of these varnishes-
and that is what they are called in
the circulars-give to sausages the
true color of the smoked product and
save the loss in weight that is sus-
tanned when they are put in the
smokehouse.
81 have q friend who has perfected
process for deodorizing ham that
has spoiled around the bone during
by the trust and his method is to re-
move the bone from these spoiled
hams, which are known to the trade
as No. 8 grade and thrust in a white
hot iron. This sweetens the meat and
the hams go out of the place labeled
No. grade ham
"Skinned Hams" Ancient.
Skinned hams. which are suppos.
ed to be a special product, are only
the hams of old hogs with skin so
thick and tough that nobody will buy
them. The skin is removed and
ground up with spices and potatoes
and called head cheese. One of the
trade circulars which / sent to Mr.
Roosevelt contains this receipt for
headcheese: Twenty pounds potato
-four, eighty pounds hog rind, one
pound boraX; spices to flavor
Here is an affidavit taken before
Alfred H. Jennings, notary, who can
furnish the name of the man who
made it. 1t states that the affiant
was employed for eight months as a
car line salesman. The man left be
cause he could not stand the sights
he Witnessed in the packing houses
I had first to learn the products he
says, and had to study all the pro
cesses of manufacture. Previous tc
this employment l had been a butcher
| and was an expert judge of meat. My
attention was at once called to the
quality Of the cattle killed in the es
Establishment and canned there. Many
of these cattle were so cmaciated as
to be just able to drag themselves
along. | have seen sausages hung il
watts to be dyed red. AS a result OF
what l saw in Packingtown l have
never since eaten canned meat or sau
| sages, except that which l knew was
not made in large packing establish
ments.'
president Roosevelt has a copy Of
this affidavit.
Human Flesh in Lard.
Chicago newspapers were surpris
ed when | told of men falling into
lard tanks and being rendered into
lard. I personally have seen tanks
with openings six feet across the tor
almost on level with the floor and
the room full of steam. When the
Presidents commissioners first came
to Chicago they were told stories OF
men falling into these tanks, but they
refused to believe them until they
HAD fuller evidence.
"a woman in my employ told me
her husband had been told by a saloon
keeper that a man in the employ OF
the firm fell into a vat of boiling lard
He made no sound after he disap.
peared in the vat, and the man who
worked beside him gave the alarm to
The foreman. The foreman immedi
ately ordered every other workman
out of the vatroom and locked the
doors, after which he and the man
fished what was left of the body out
CT the vat. The saloon keeper gave
the name of the man who had helped
to take the body from the boiling
lard. He also said the widow Of the
dead man received $500 from the
packing company to keep the story
from the Presidents commissioners
when my friend went to the adj
dress given to get the story for the
| commissioners under the pretnse that
he was the representative of an in
surance company. he was set upon by
the ignorant Poles in the house and
called a spy. He did not get the adj
dress of the widow, who had been
sent t. Nebraska to get her out of the
way Of the government investigators.