Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-06-08

lDdbt5 the da5tlti'u Int lHt BOfcIu
mont inspection Of the beef trust
slaughter.bouses Is an impregnable
wall protecting the public from i'm.
pure meat. and that not an atom Of
diseased meat finds its way into the
products OF the Armours. Mr.. Up
ton Sinclair, author Of THE Jungle"
a terrific statement of packing house
conditions), studied the meat industry
fer two years including much time
spent in the Chicago stockyards as a
workman; he is the best equipped
outside authority On stockyard condi-
items In Everybody's Magazine for
/ May Mr.. Sinclair makes startling
and convincing answer to Mr. Ar
mour's assertion. Commencing with
/ the statement that j. Ogden Armour
Is the absolute and not the nominal
head Of the great packing house in
dustry which bears his name Mr.. Sin
clair says: Il know that in the state
mdnts quoted, Mr.. Armour willfully
and deliberately states what he abso-
lutely and positively knows to be
falsehoods.'
That he might be properly equipped
10 describe conditions in Packing
town" Mr.. Sinclair worked for
period as laborer in the plant of Ar
mour & Co. and he tells Of sights Of
filth and horror such as he hopes
never to see again. but the strongest
coincidence Of the truth of the claim
that meat unfit for human food is put
on the market comes from a man for
gears superintendent at Armour G.
Co.'S Chicago plant. Thomas F. Dolan,
OF Boston. Mr. Sinclair in his article
says:
AT the time Of the embalmed-beef
scandal at the conclusion of the Span
ish war, when the whole country was
conyulsed with fury over the reyela-
lions made by soldiers and officers
(ncluding Gen. Miles and President
RoosevelD concerning the quality of
meat which Armour & Co. had fur
nlshed to the troops. and concerning
the death-rate which 1t had caused,
the enormity Of the 'condemned-meat
industry became suddenly clear to
one man who had formerly super
vised II. Mr. Thomas +. Dolan, then
residing In Boston. had. up to a short
time previous. bten a superintendent
at Armour & Co.'S and one of Mr..
Philip ID. Armour's most capable and |
trusted men. When he read Of the
death-rate in the army. he made an
affidavit concerning the things which
were done in the establishment Of Ar
mour & CO., and this affidavit he took /
60 the New York Journal. which pub
llshed II on March 4. 1899. Here are
some extracts from It:
There were many ways of getting
around the inspectors-so many, in
fact, that not more than two or three
cattle out of 1000 were condemned.
know exactly what ! am writing
of In this connection, as my particular
instructions from Mr.. W. Is, Pierce,
superintendent of the beef houses for
Armour Co., we're very explicit and
definite
whenever a beef got past the yard
inspectors with a case of lumpy jaw
and came into the slaughterhouse or
the 'klllng-bed.' | was authorized by
Mr. Pierce to take his head of. thus
the evidences of lumpy jaw,
and after casting the smitten portion
into the tank where refuse goes. to
send the rest of the carcass on its
way to market
II have seen as much as 40 pounds
of flesh afflicted with gangrene cut
from the carcass of a beef. in order ,
that the rest of the animal might be
utilized in trade. )
zone Of the most important regula- {
ions of the bureau of animal indus I
Try Is that no cows in calf are to be I
placed on the market Out of a {
slaughter Of 1000 cows. or days
dlling. perhaps one-half are with S
'alves. MY instructions from Mr..
Pierce were to dispose of the calves @
" hiding them untl night, or until I
he inspectors left OF duty. The lit s
le carcasses were then brought from a
m over the packlnghouse and skinned G
" boys. who received two cents for 4
emovlng each pelt. The pelts were 4
old for so cents each TO the Sid-gloye @
This occurs every 3
light st Mr.. Armours concern at Chi a
AGO, or after each killing of cows. +
IL now propose TO state here exact n
y what | myself have witnessed in h
'hilip D. Armour'e packiag-aouse with o
attic that have been condemned by a
he government inspectors. i
"a workman, one Nicholas Newson 81
urlng my time, informs the inspec- a
or that the tanks are prepared for the v
eception Of the condemned cattle and "
hat his presence is required to see q
he beef cast into the steam-tank. Mr.. p