The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-06-08
SELLS BAD MEAT.
Upton Sinclair Bares New Afro.
cities of Beef Trust.
CONDF MINED STOCK
OF Five Million Farms Poured Intn the
Public Ma ket for People to Eat
BY the Big Packing Houses
of The Armours and
Other Packers.
Other Packers.

nf The ArmOurs and
Other Packers.
The Beef Trust is about to be call.
ed to account for selling diseased and
rotten meats. Upton Sinclair, who
has been instrumental iD showing up
the methods Of the Beef Trust In
The JUNGLE" book te wrote, writes
as follows to the New York Ameri
can:
For decades there has been develop
Ing In Ch!c go, entirely unrestricted
and unheeded, q system whereby the
public was made to buy and consume
AL the diseased and tainted meat that
could be gathered from the fl ,e mill
lion fai m, Of this country. When |
hrat went to PAckingtown | found
that the system mad reached a stage
where the public had been educated
TO ignorance-ao5 merely as to the
practices that existed, but even to the
laws concerning tbem.
| l wrote book to tell the truth
about IT,. TIE packers tried to brlbe
me, and to intimida.e me; they SET
detectives after me, and tried to in
fuence my publishers not to bring out
the book. They filed the press With
lies about me, and even sent to news
papers to p event the books being
reviewed. And then the President
read 1t; and when he began an inyes-
tigatlon they started the story that
ne was investig ating me, to get ma.
terial to attack me. And for months
they we're able to make the country
believe this grote5que yarn.
DRIVEN TO STOP "DoCroRING.
And meantime they we're cleaning
up In front Of his commission. Igot
Information from uperintenGent at
Armour's as 10 the precise room In
which they "doctored" spoiled hams;
but they bad stopped "doctoripg'
spoiled ham, A n'ght watchman for
one OF the Big Three" who Is vi ling
me information, writes as follow 8:
They knew just when the two new
commissioners were to be out, and
eKEya men were working half, the
night getting ready"
! La the Armour plant saw With
my own eyes the doctoripg of hams
that were 30 purified that 1 could
not force myself to remain near them.
The hams were on working table,
and man with foot pump which
worked on the principle Of gigantic
hypOdermic needle iiled them with
a chemical which killed the odor.
l saw skinned hams taken from
hams 80 old that nobody could eat the
skin. Without the skins there is
sale for them. Then the skins were
taken and ground in a big mortar and
sold as head cheese Not a can OF
smoked or timed meat that goes out
or those packing houses is free from
chemical preservation which must eat
into and corrode' the lining of the
stomach
POTTED HAMS MADE OF STALE BBEF.
The Armour recipe for potted hams
as verified by two former superinten
dents iS to take the nubs OF mould,
smoked beef and grind 1t in great
| hoppers with rlnd trimmings.
know a man who was high up In
the councils OF Armouc & Co., at the
Jime OF the Spanish American War,
and who Is we'll known to President
Roosevelt, who says, upon his personal
knowledge, that one chemist got $40 .
600 for testifying that the process did
not destroy the nutriment In the b. ef
This man said that Armour alone
spent 81 100000 getting out OF the
scandal This company contributed
$60 600 to the Republican campaign
.fund In 1896
While | am not prepared to say Of
my own observations and kno Wedge
that such horrible conditions exist In
New York and other large cities,
am mo ally convinced that they do
exist In q degree only second to those
In Chicago.
That the Chicago packers are alarm
ed and desperate In their determine
ton to have the Neill. Reynolds re-
port suppressed is shown by the fact
that they sent man to try and In
tiuence Jhis commission, composed OF
James b Reynolds, former secretary
to Mayor Low, and u lited States
Com missioner OF Labor Charles p.
Neitl. L Violate no confidence In say
Ing that much, for [ have 1T In let.
ter from q man who learned OF 1t
rom the Beef Trust represent atiye
himself.
And now that all these tricks have
failed, they put the screws on the
poor cattle raisers and set them to
teleRraphing!
Much cause the cattle raiser has to
love the Beef Trust, and to pull Its
chestnuts out OF the fire For years
the packers have been beating down
the price OF beef on the noof, running
the Industry In whole States. They
: caused forty banks to fail In single
month. 1t has been their regular
practice TO raise prices to induce big
shipments, and then lower them, and
scoop In all the cattle In sight. And
! 1T Is these same cattemen who have
often been stuck In Chicago without
money to got home by freight, wh(
are now set to telcgraphing tho Pfcsi
! dent In behalf OF the condemned meat
Industry!
INSPECTOR IN PACKERS EMPLOY.
r just few facts to show how th
h packers treat these cattlemen. DR.
n William X. j yq1es, OF Caicago, VIII,
was for two years at the head OF tn
city inspection in 1hat ciJy, writes M
as follows:
8 "QlaIantined meat is that whlcl
y has been suspected OF disease on Tin