Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-06-07

killed here every year, which makes
the inspection cost 30 cents a head.
The average weight of a dressed beef
will be we'll over 500 pounds. 1t is
bosh to say that an inspection would
bankrupt packer, who could not raise
the price on his product sufficiently
to cover the cost of the inspection
without trying for an additional profit
THE inspection to-day is not an in
spection," continued Inspector Cutler,
who was one of the first government
inspectors to withhold the stamp in
spected' from tainted meat The re-
jected carcass is left on the floor. I'M
stamped. 1t ought to escorted TO the
soap tank if the inspection was
meant to be inspection.
When l was inspecting, the law al
lowed us to shoot lumpy jaw animal.
1t fell and was not bled. The result
was it CONCEALED and rendered t'-e
flesh unfit for meat. That was sen
uine inspection. Compare it with the
present system of allowing the animal
to be slaughtered. bled and removed
from inspection without any further
ado
''Lumpy jaw cattle are inspected in
an outrageous way. The government
says that an animal with a small
lump on its jaw shall be used only
for this purpose. An animal with a
larger lump may be used only for that
purpose, and so it goes"
From the stock yards to the box
of strawberries in the crate at the
store door there is filthiness in public
food. The most outrageous part of it.
is that the government pays inspectors
to inspect good meat, but allows the
packers to do what they like with the
bad meat. Nobody ever heard of
packer making soap of a $40 steer
that turned out to have tuberculosis"
Being a Kansas City official, Inspec-
| tor Cutler has no right to cross the
state line and inspect meats in the
packing houses.
= Pai'adeIphia Papers Evidence.
Philadelphia. Pa.-The Philadel
phia Press prints an article alleging
that Dr. B. H. Warren, dairy and food
commissioner OF Pennsylvania, had for.
warded President Roosevelt a report
of SO typewriter pages made by his
department showing that adulterated
foods were being turned out by the
packing houses Of Kansas City, Omaha
and st. Louis, as we'll as those of Chi
cago. 1t is alleged that DR.. Warren
had little success in his efforts to get
at actual conditions in the packing
houses in the years 1904 and 1905. The
article says:
In February of last year he sent ali
inspectcr-a farmer and stock breed.
er, by the way-to Chicago with in
Structions to take all the time neceS-
sary and to adopt every measure re-
Quisite to find out all about the meth
DDS of the packers: to study their
manner Of slaughtering, the utilization
of by-products; to learn all about the
| ingredients of every article shipped in
package, can, box. pail or barrel; the
preservatives used, the adulterating
substances employed, and the coloring
matter, mineral, analine or vegetable
used, the sanitary conditions under
which these products were made
everything, in fact, which would throw
| light On the subject. In this instance
it was one man pitted against com
bination.
The inspector followed instructions
Weeks were spent by him in Chicago
Then he visited Kansas City and spent
weeks in the packing houses and
slaughtering pens. Next he went to St.
Louis, and from there to Omaha.
All told, the reports from the four
cities make mass of cloely typewrit-
ten manuscript of so or more pages.
1t gives the ingredients of packing
house products, not in a general way,
but in detail, the number of pounds
and ounces of meat, spices, preserva-
tives and adulterants. A score of
formulate, in minute detail, make UP
| the most interesting portion of the re-
port. These alone are of the most start
| ling character, but when placed side
| by side with his descriptions of the
methods used, sanitary conditions Of
the factories and all the other hundred
and one revolving features of the sys-
tenn, it makes a record that is abso-
| lutely appalling.
This report, together with scores of
samples of adulterants, coloring mat
ter and fraudulent preparations obtain
ed by the inspector and his assistants.
was, as long ago as March, 1905, placed
in the hands of Dr. Warren. He in
turn handed them with the original
documents over to the chief chemist
of the department of agriculture of
Pennsylvania, and there they have re-
manned until recently when they were
forwarded to Washington by express.