The National tribune., 1906-07-19

| cagO River would lead one to think
that that stream 60 might be playing
| sewer as In Baltimore and Alexandria.
This being SO, how could one expect
| to find much of anything clean and
| wholesome in Chicago, let alone the
packing houses Of which we have had
our sufficiency full during the last few
months? Talk with its citizens. and
they say:
"Oh, when we get done with our tre-
up"
Talk with her city officials and they
say:
my dear Madam, how on earth can
you expect to keep city like Chicago;
with Its tremendous building schemes
all the time going on, clean and whole
some as 'Spotless TOWN."
! Talk with the visitors in Chicago, and
they say:
| Dear me! With the whole town torn
up and obstructed by building 1t is too
much to expect city like Chicago to
| be clean as Beanville, you know" And
they all say in chorus, citizen, officials,
guests:
my, but isn't Chicago the hustler!
Did you ever see city grow more rap
idly? Is there a city in the world that
does more business proportionately? :?
Just see the wealth, the enterprise; in
deed, we have not time to stop the
march of progress just to clean up the
streets"
as say, just the dirtiest, the filthiest,
the very nastiest streets that l have
| trod between the two oceans under the
Flag, and / have seen the most uf them
| In the last year or two.
And Chicago doesn't care! That Is
| the very worst Of 1t. II she did care
she would clean up and stay cleaned
up; but repeat 1t. she does not care!
The Packing-House Scandals.
Did she mind the packing-house scan
dals?
Yes indeedy. She minded them like
the mischief. Not that she cared for
| the vicious conditions described, but the
| reports Of them hurt her business-cut
short some Of her money-making
schemes, stopped for a time the inflow
OF the golden stream which is the blood
in the veins of Chicago. Her pride was
hurt, because for a time the receipts
over expenditures showed vast falling
off, and when you hurt Chicago there
| it is a stab under the fifth rib and
mighty close to the heart. OF course.
she soon recovered. but she resents 1t
all just the same, and in her own good
time, at the polls, proposes to pay back
| the Republican Party for its dirty
| work" in exposing Chicagos packing
house methods to the cold charity Of
the world.
And those same packing-houses!
While the Federation Of Women s
Clubs was holding its National Conven-
ton in ST. Paul last month some Of the
delegates from Grand Rapids, Mich.
| told in the Convention how they went
into the abattoir OF that town and clean
ed 1t up themselves, and afterwards
gave a pink tea" In the slaughter-pen
L -, ~ hoG do N
| That was having the courage OF ones
convictions as to cleanliness with ven-
geance, but as for me, l want nothing
| to do with a packing-hOuse or any OF Its
products just at present. II you scrubbed
| 1t with lye and rinsed 1t In roseWater or
altar Of roses. as was done to the teni-
ple at Jerusalem after it's def1lement by
| the infidels, you could not make 1t any
thing else but q slaughter-house, and
! the scent would hang round 1t, though
| IL were burned out by fires seven times
heated.
| Not Inviting to Any Sense.
| have visited all the packing houses
in Chicago. / took nice. hot. steamy
July day to make my visits. and made
the rounds between 10 o'clock q. m. and
3 o'clock D. m. There is nothing that
anybody living or dead can tell me
about the 20 smells Of Cologne. or was
it $50? II it was the latter. why. then
III am still confident that can recognize
and catalogue ISL. With those smells.
as with chiggers. you may bathe In
camphor. and rub down with coaloil,
but il you put on a scrap Of the same
clothing you lay aside to take your
bath you will find the chiggers still with
you, and II you don any of the clothing
worn in those packing-houses you will
carry with you those 751 smells. Moth
ing short Of burying them for year In
rich mellow loan will divest your
clothes of those peculiar, indescribably
disgusting packing-house smells.
| Don't for q minute think that l am
saying that those smells are the product
| Of filth. for do not mean that. They
are meat smells, each varying with the
other as one star differs from another.
There is q beef smell. and a hog smell.
| and q veal smell. and sheep smell. and
| they all have intermediate smells Of
| their very own, such as the lard smell.
mutton tallow smell, 20 differing saus-