Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-06
ARMOUR SAYS IT
Is NOT FAIR PLAY
Packer Returning from Europe says
Meat inspection Agitation Is Harm
fui to American Industries.


New York. June 29.-J. Ogden Ar
mour, head of one of the largest Chi
cago packing houses, accompanied py
his wife and daughter, Lolita, VINO mas
been under the care of Prof. Lorenz III
Vienna, arrived here yesterday on the
Kronprinz Wilhelm. i.
Lolita, the ~10-year-old daughter or
Mr.. and Mrs. Armour, showed u a
slight trace of lameness and looked the
picture of health.
We were much hurt" said Mr.. Ar
mour, over the reports circulated here
that u daughter had not improved
under Prof. Lorenz's treatment. Any
one who looks at the child today VIII
see that they are untrue
Mr.. Armour tonight made public the
following statement regarding n re-
cent packing house exposures:
ON summing up what has been said about
the packers and what has Deen done &c
the packing industry, one naturally In
quires: VIVA has become Of our boast
ed American fair play?" One or the larg,
est American industries has been attacked
and attacked without reason In a way thar
hes discredited American goods or all
kinds abroad. All over Europe there Is
open agitation for a boycott on American
products.
try has been badly damaged. To estt-
mate the total loss now would be merely
guesswork. 1t may run into the nun
dreds Of millions. When American indus
tries are slandered by persons who pre-
tend to speak as Americans 1t Is to be
expected that foreign competitors Will
taxi advantage of II.
But the American meat industry can
not be destroyed by socialistic agttators,
political reVolutionists, stump speeches,
sensational journalism, running amuck. 1t
has existed fer forty years. It's products
have made their way into every quarter
90 N1A .a 80. an NAnFff
The public has i~gnorantly or malicious
ly been misinformed on two of the most
important phases of the whole question,
namely, the character of the meat lnspee-
ton as it has been and the attitude of the
large packers toward proposed legislation.
The inspection now in force In all the
larger packing houses makes the sale OF
diseased meat from such houses impossa-
BILE. The government, which is responsible
for the Inspection, has failed 10 state the
facts about X.
The larger packers believe in government
inspection. They asked for it in the first
place. They want 1t continued and inn
proved If ii can be improved.
/ believe all of the large packers are
heartily IN favor OF the purposes which
the pending bill is intended to accom-
before slaughter. thorough inspection of
all animals after slaughter, thorough In
s~pection Of the products that 90 to the
consumers other than In bulk.
1 have sean it stated hat the scandal
lous attacks upon the American meat in
dustry were made because of opposition
of the packers to proposed legislation. This
Is not true and could not be true. My
information is, and the newspaper nles
will bear me out. that the food of Islander
was we'll started before a suggestion of
legislation was heard. We never heard
Of the socalled Beveridge amendment I'M
til it was introduced. Everything provid-
ed for In the proposed legislation could
have been accomplished without any OF
the damaging sensationalism we have had
II the corporation of the packers had
been desired or had been accepted when
proffered.
AS the report to the National Associa-
ton Of Manufacturers. which / have just
read. well puts 1t. the purpose of the ire
formsrs" seems TO a been tn kill the
industry nrss and then reform IL.
There is some satisfaction in the way
users of Chicago meats, and especially
canned meats, are now testifying to thei.
quality in the face of what has been said
San Francisco would lave starved after
the earthquake and fire If Chicago canned
meat was not at hand, and the health de.
partment says that period was the health
lest In the city's history. English army
officers and inspectors are giving similar
testimony. TX Is gratifying that develop.
ments are proving the unfair character OF
the Nen-Reynolds reports.
Closes 81 Slaughter Houses.
Philadelphia, June 27.-The board o,
health has directed the of thir.
ty-seVen out of Id slaughter houses il
various sections of the city to aban.
don their establishments. Conditions
1t is charged, were unsanitary.
Kansas City, Mo-, June PA chem.
ical analysis of hamburger steak, DO.
logna sausage, loose sausage, Polish
sausage, frankfurters and weinerwurst,
bought in the open market from three
leading packing companies has con.
WINGED Professor b. w. Lindberg, pro.
sessor of chemistry and t~oxicology IL
the Kansas City Hahnemann Medical
college, that these products of the pack.
ing companies contain sulphites. In
every sample of the products of two
houses and in two out of five of the
other samples sulphites were found