The Carlisle independent., 1906-06-07

room on trucks, are forthwith east into the hissing steam-boilers and dis appear.
 But the condemned steer does not stay in the tank any longer than the time required for his remains to drop through the boiler down to the floor below, where he is caught on a truck and hauled back again to the cutting room. The bottom of the tank was open, and the steer passed through the aperture.
 T have witnessed the fard9 many times. l have seen the beef dropped into the vat in which steam-pipe was exhausting with a great noise so that the thud of the beef striking the truck below could not be heard, and in a short time I have witnessed Nicholas bringing it back to be pre- pared for the market.
 ''I have even marked beef with my knife so as to distinguish it, and watched it return to the point where it started.
 Of all the evils of the stockyards, the canning department is perhaps the worst. It is there that the cattle from all parts of the United States are prepared for canning. No matter how scrawny or debilitated canners are. they must go the route of their brothers and arrive ultimately at the great boiling vats, where they are steamed until they are reasonably ten- der. Bundles of gristle and bone melt into pulpy masses and are stirred up for the canning department.
 T have seen cattle come into Ar mour's stockyards so weak and ex- hausted that they expired in the cor rals, where they lay for an hour or two, dead, until they were afterward hauled in, skinned, and put on the market for beef or into the canning department for cans.
 Tn other words. the Armour estab- lishment was selling carrion.
 There are hundreds of other men in the employ of MT. Armour who could verify every line I have writ ten. They have known of these things ever since packing has been an industry. But I do not ask them to come to the front in this matter. stand on my oath, word for word, sen tence for sentence, and statement for statement
 .'I write this story of my own free will and volition, and no one Is re- sponsible for it but myself. It is the product of ten years of experience It is the truth, the whole truth. and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
 THOMAS F. DOLAN.
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this first day of March, 1899
 "ORVILLE F. PURDY, Notary Public, Kings County, N. Y.
 Certificate filed in New York coun- ty."
 The significance of this statement, as MT. Sinclair notes, is heightened by the fact that, published as it was in a newspaper of prominence, whose proprietor is a man of immense wealth and could be reached by the courts, MT. Armour made no move to insti ute suit for libel, practically admit ting that the statement was true.
 MT. Sinclair makes the assertion, and gives abundant proof, that the worry incidental to the "embalmed beef" scandal during the war with Spain caused the death of Philip D. Armour, and that millions of dollars were spent by the packing interests in the effort to keep concealed the truth about the matter The awful mortality from disease among the sol diers during that few weeks campaign was distinctly attributable to the meat rations supplied to the army. There seems small reason to doubt that meat as little fit for human food is still being placed on the market. How much disease and death has been the outcome may be imagined.
 Summing up the entire facts of the situation, MT. Sinclair concludes:
 Writing in magazine of large circulation and influence, and having the floor all to himself, Mir. Armour spoke serenely and boastfully of the quality of his meat products, and challenged the world to impeach his integrity, but when he was brought into court charged with crime by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he spoke in a different tone, and to different purport; he said guilty He pleaded this to a criminal indict- ment for selling preserved minced ham in Greenburg, and paid the fine of $50 and costs. He pleaded guilty again in Shenandoah, Pa, on June 16, 1905, to the criminal charge of selling adulterated 'blockweirst;' and again he paid the fine of $50 and costs. Why should MT. Armour be let off with fines which are of less conse- quence to him than the. price of a postage stamp to you or me, instead of going to jail like other convicted criminals who do not happen to be millionaires?"