The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-06-13
PACKERS ARE CALLED
THIEVES AND GRAFTERS

New York, June 13.-Startling
charges of graft have been made by
Upton Sinclair, author of 1.-THE Jun
gle." following close upon the great
expose of the stock yards horrors.
The famous young novelist who mas
written fiction into law. declares that
for years the packers have bled Chi
cago, that they steal water with i'm
punity. that they have city policemen
to hiIe their employees for them on the
streets that they have graft-ridden the
nations second iaige city, and that
now they are attempting the same
sort of daring work in the capitol at
Washington.
1.-THE public has now got the facts,
and got them in shape so that there
can be no longer any DOUBT about what
Is needed" said Sin clair. sit remains
on ly for them to zee that the men who
are entrusted with the legislative
power do not trick them.
1.-The whole power of the beef trust
in Washington, d. O., is at this NOM
ent concentrated upon the task of de.
visiug schemes to deceive the public,
and to get them out Of this sorape
with as little concession to deoency
and Cleanliness as possible; to intro
duce into the Beverage bill some pro.
visions which may be used 10 nullity
it's effect when public clamor died
away. --... ---..-.-
lone of the things which most OK.
cited my Indignation in Packingtown,
was the discovery of how the packers
have prostituted the government of
Chicago to their own purposes.
"Tbey rule the neigbborhood and
they get anything they want for the
asking. For years tney..have resisted
the efforts of the public spirited peo-
pie of Chicago to compel them to
drain out Bubbly Creek
"They steal city water with impun-
ity; they have CITY police officers TO
hire their employees for them on the
streets; they even have a policeman
posted on the dump to prevent any
one from taking pictures of it. And
now the American people ara to be
treated to an exhibition of the same
sort of work in their national capital"
An upheaval is expected meanwhile
among the 900 United States govern
ment meat inspection officials through
out the country as a result of the
Neill. Reynolds report.
President Roosevelt, it is reported,
has determined upon complete shak-
cup in that. b, anch of the agricultural
department 10 view of the amazing
Indications of graft and lenienoy TO-
ward the guilty packers shown by the
inspectors charged with the RESPONSE
bility Of guaranteeing the purity of
the public food supply.
It required only few hours visit
at the Chicago stock yards of Messrs.
Neill and Reynolds. according to re-
port, to assure the two ambassadors OF
the President that the system of in
spection was woefully lax and that Sc
cret graft was responsible in large
measure for the disgusting condition
of affairs revealed in the slaughte
houss and canneries.
Discovery of new stocKyards horrors
that special Investigators of the Pres
ident are said to be unearthing was re-
vealed when t was learned that Chi
cago packers turn the rancid scraps
collected in retail butcher shops into
oleomargarine. that they were BUTCH
ering steers which they fattened on
distillery slops. and that they were
buying up all the dead animals at the
stockyards to be transformed into pure
leaf lard and other by-products.
DEADLY SERPENT BITES