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tions in the stockyards, the question Of
the use Of poisons being scarcely men
toned. This supplemental report will
bring the poison business to the front
OF the stage with AN array Of convin-
cling data.
Used secret-service Men.
1t is not the wish of the president to
submit this report unless compelled to
do so. He is having it prepared, how
ever, SO that it may be used il the
packing-house Influence in either house
seems strong enough to prevent salts
factory. legislation.
No disclosures have been made re-
gasdn9g an means ear v ide 5s
the second report will be based. It is
believed, however, that he has made
free use of the secret-seryice bureau.
and that agents of that bureau have
been for more than month at work
in Chicago. Enough evidence is al
| ready at$hand, it is said. to Justify the
report, and it is still coming in.
Recalls Sinclair Challenge.
Just prior to the announcement that
the president had sent Messrs. Neill
and Reynolds to Chicago for purposes
| of investigation, Upton Sinclair, whose
| writings have started this entire agita-
ton, issued thru the columns Of certain
| New York papers an open challenge to
tute criminal proceedings against him
| lSinclair) if the statements made by
him were untrue. In this letter Sin
clair sums up the effect of the state
ments made by him in his book and
magazine articles as follows. I repeat
them because they indicate the direc.-
ton which the supplemental report
from Neill and Reynolds will take. He
"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 millions of pounds
of diseased, tainted, preserved, dyec
and adulterated meat products every
week he@hyes. ,..-... = 80. ... ..-...a
l - Putrid Meat Embalmed.
3 "The selling for human food of tn,
carcasses :,of cattle and swine which
have been condemned for tuberculosie
actinomYcosis and gangrene, the con
verting of such carcasses- into sausag
and lard, the preserving of spoiled ham
with boric and salicylic acid. The col
oring of canned and potted meats witt
teratings of sausages. All of these thing
mean the dealing out to hundreds an
! thousands of men, women and chllure
of a sudden, horrible and agonizin
death. 5.:> ..-... - 49, !,
Now. it should be borne in mind tina
the first Neill- reynolds report did no
deal with any Of these things.
Indeed, in the one brief and incoI
spicuous report it makes to this branc
Of the subject, it expressly. states tina
on "the alleged use of dyes, preserve
tives or chemicals, in the preparation g
; cured meats, sausages and canned good
4 we are not yet prepared to report; - an
even in this negative, way 1t makes
reference to tuberculosis or gangrene
carcasses. aor anything Of that gener,
character, Thus, so far as regards tn
/ most outrageous phase Of the practlc
Il is we'll TO remember that nothing ne
vet been brought out by the official il
vestigation. ~. -. -l.s- ~ i /.
80, -: Serves as Big Stick. ~:
I The word from the White House su!
:. Elemental report deals directly wit
I this phase of the question and that
~ abundance Of, testimony has been $
/ + cured makes it apparent that the pet
\ packers are fooling with edged too
when they undertake TO persuade co
i gress to:7run counter to the beef
!! spection policy. -
3 nit the first Neill- Reynolds report, tt
Il attitude of the house committe on: agl
u culture being so antagonistic as .
n threaten the defeat of the Reverid
y amendment He may also feel col
Il nelled TO- submit this supplement repo1
81 It has been his policy to ignore t
il past misdeeds and hold the packers