Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-06-09
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Array of Facts Calculated to Destroy the
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In a recent issue of the Saturday
Evening Post Mr.. J. Ogden fnie ylS
makes the assertion that the Elyxefn.
ment inspection or the beef trust
slaughterrheuses> is IAN impragn able
wall protecting the puhlic from i'm.
pure meat, and that not an atom of
diseased meat hnds It's way into the
products o. thu Armpurs. Mr.. Up
toll Sihclair, author bf THE Jungle"
CHa t6Tfiac abatement of packing house
.ccDa itions), studied the meat industry
sf6f two years, including much time
spent in the Chicago stockyards as a
workman; he Is the best equipped
outside authority on stockyard condi-
tions. In. Everybody's Magazine for
MayilMr. Sinclair makes startling
and convincing answer to Mr.. Ar
sfnonr's assertion. Commencing with
The statement that J. Ogden Armour
is the absolute and not the nominal
head of the great packing house in
dnstry Which BEARS IFS name Mr.. SIN
HuiHirzHays:a#tt AtEkRew that In the state
ments quoted, Mr.. Armour willfully
and deliberately states what he abso-
lutely and positively knows to be
falsehoods." .,za,s,,
4 Tht ne fnightv be pronsfIy edulDned
~uescribG conditions fn s@sPacking'
4owh"' NE. Sinclair worked for a
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 man for
years superintendent at Armour &
Co.'s Chicago plant, Thomas F. Dolan,
of" Bosten.r.M Sinclair in his article
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scandal at the conclusion of the Span
FISH war, when the whole country Vas
convulsed with fury over the revela-
lions made. by =, soldiers and officers
(includihg Gen. Miles and President
Roosevelt) concerning the quality of
meat which Armour & Co. had fur
nished to the troops, and concerning
the death-rate which 1t had caused,
the enormity of the condemned meat
industry became suddenly clear. 4 to
one man who had formerly super
vised It, Mr. Thomas r., sDolan, then
residing in Boston, had, up to9a short
time previous, been a superintendent
at Armour & Co.'s, and one of Mr..
Philip D. 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
to the New York Journal, which pub
lished It on March 4, 1899. Here are
some extracts from it, r-s 7 81
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 I am writing
of in this connection, as my particular
instructions from Mr.. w. E. Pierce,
Superintendent of the beef houses for
Armour & Co., were very explicit and
definite
whenever a beef got past the yard
inspectors with case of lumpy, jaw
and came into the slaughterhouse or
an H. outhnriupd Nv
Mr. Pierce to take his head off, thus
removing 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 ,.,s-.. ,.,-,, s,..,-,.,.
81 have seen as much as 40 pounds
of flesh afflicted with gangrene cut
from the carcass ola beef in order
that the rest of the animal might be
utilized in trade.
zone of the most important regula-
lions Of the bureau of animal indus
try is that no cows in calf are to be
placed on the market. Out of a
slaughter of 1000 cows, or days
killing. perhaps one-half are with
calves. My instructions from Mr..
Pierce were to dispose of the calves
by hiding them until night, or until
the inspectors left off duty. The lit
tie carcasses were then brought from
all over the packing-house and skinned
by boys, who received two cents for
removing each pelt. The pelts were
sold for so cents each to the kid-glove
manufacturers. This occurs every
night at Mr.. Armours concern at Chi
cago, or after each killing of cows.
"I now propose to state here exact
ly what I myself have witnessed In
Philip D. Armour's packingIhouse with
cattle that have been condemned by
the government inspectors. las
"A workman, one Nicholas Newson
during my time, informs the inspec-
tor that the tanks are prepared for the
reception of the condemned cattle and
that his presence is required to see
the beef cast into the steam-tank. Mr..
Inspector proceeds at once to the place
indicated, and the condemned cattle,
having heep brought I'D to the tank