The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-02
UPTON SINCLAIR ASKS
ARMOUR To PROSECUTE
Author of 1.-THE Jungle" Dedes
Meat Trust to Arrest Him
For Criminal Libel.

AuLuOI VI 4ue JuuS10 0SASo
Meat Trust to Arrest Him
For Criminal Libel.
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His Indictment. Against the Meat
Trust Is Strongest Ever
Written Against Trusts.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 31.-Upton SIM
clair. author Of the '"The Jungle" has
sent the following letter to the news &
pepers Of America relative to Presi- +
dent Roosevelt's reference to him in
his Muck Rake speech: ~,
The Condemned Meat Industry.
To the Editor: have sent the fol- :.
lowing to the newspaper editors of
the country: s@
To the Newspaper Editors Of Amer
lea Three or four weeks ago the 4
newspapers Of the country were print
ing L. dispatch to the effect that Pres
ident YSaosevelt had made an investi-!
cation aid convinced himself Of the
falsity Of the charges made in The
Jungle" and that he proposed to make
its author the center Of his Man
basis Of this story was a two-column
dispatch, which was printed in the
Chicago Tribune, signed by it's Wash
ington correspondent. In this dis;
patch these statements were made {
positively, and with every appearance
of authority, as coming directly from
the President and at his desirel and
from first to last the story, was Z
fabrication.
It was one more illustration of, how
the Beef Trust fights. For nearly two
years now I have been contending
against these secret Influences They
have sent men to bribe me; they have
put detectives at work tracing my
past, in the hope Of finding something
to compromise me; they have cir
culated falsehoods about me in the
and tried to influence my
book; they have discharged men in
the stock yards whom they suspected
of having given me information; they
have called others up to their offices
and threatened to discharge them for
selling the book. They have sought
to annoy me in their more petty and
objectionable ways: and am resolved
to try to make them come out into
the open and fight.
The Chicago Tribune correspondent
said that I made charges Of knavery
and crime and had no facts to back
them up. :
I gave some Of the facts in the
May number Of Everybody's Magazine
In my article entitled The Condemned
Meat Industry, Reply to Mr.: Mr.:
Ogden Armour" @, ss.ss5z>z5 n
If you will read this article you will
rhetoric in the course Of it. I have
used no adjectives and called no
names. I have tried to make 1t read
like legal brief. There are no asser-
tons Of my own: there Is nothing to
be taken upon my word; there are
affidavits and chemists analyses, Off
cial reports and Independent investi-
gatiOns-all facts.
And they are all facts which bear
upon one man, personally and indi-
vidually. What they prove IS that
he himself, of his own free will and
personal knowledge, is occupied in
sending out, selling, and causing to be
eaten by the people of America, mil
lions Of pounds of diseased, tainted,
preserved, dyed and adulterated meat
products every week that he lives.
And what has been Mr.. Armour's
answer to this evidence? What has
he had to say to the newspapers about
it?
More advertisements! 5
Every time that a campaign of ex-6
posure against the Chicago yackers
has begun in the magazines they have
spent literally millions Of dollars in
advertisements.
II you saw man committing q
murder and you rushed to interfere
what would you say to a person who
offered you an advertisement If you
would stop? Yet there is a man who
is engaged in murder by wholesale,
In the everyday routine Of business,
and he offers you an advertisement
SC that you will not let his victims
know what he is doing.
For do not make any mistake about
the meaning of this thing which I
have called '"The Condemned Meat In
dustry''-it means murder!
ue selling VI Hulldll 1000 OF tn0
carcasses Of cattle and swine which
have been condemned for tuberculosis,
.actinomycosis and gangrene; the con-
verting of such carcasses into sausage
and lard; the preserving of spoiled
hams with boric and salisylic acid,
the coloring of canned and potted
meats with aniline dyes; the embalm-
ing and adulterating of sausagesall
Of these things mean the dealing out
to hundreds and thousands Of men,
women and children Of a sudden, hr-
rible and agonizing death.
One hundreth part Of what hav1S
charged ought, If it is true, to be
enough to send the guilty man to the G
gallows.
One hundreth part Of what have
charged ought, If 1t is false, to be
enough to send me to prison. 5ss
If these things which have charged
are false, why has Mr.. Armour not
sued me for libel? ,..~sE E%.z$ SS$ sss
All that ask Of Mr.. Armour is q