The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-06

CONDEMNED STOCK
OF Five Million Farms Poured Into the
Public Ma ket for People to Eat
BY the Big Packing Houses
of The Armours and
Other Packers.

Tue Beef Trust is about to be call
ed to account for selling diseased aud
rotten meats. Upton Sinclair, who
has been instrumental in showing up
the methods CT the Beef Trust In
The Jungle" q book Ee wrote, writes
IS follows TO the New York Ameri-
Can:
| FJr decades there has been develop
ing in Chic 60, entirely unrestricted
and UNDECIDED, system whereby the
public was made to buy and consume
al the diseased and tainted meat that
could bs gathered from the d7e mill
lion faims OF this country. When l
first went to Packingtown found
that the system mad reached stage
where the public had been educated
TO ignoranee-nos merely as to the
practices that existed, but even to the
laws concerning them.
I wrote q Eock to tell the truth
about il. Tee packers tried to bribe
me, and to intimida:e me; they set
detectives after me, and tired 10 in
fuence NY publishers not to bring out
the book. They flied the. press with
lies about me, and even sent to news
papers to prevent the books being
reviewed. And then the President
read it; and when he began an inves-
Gigation they started the story that
he was in7estiQ eating me, to get ms
terial to attack me. And for months
they were able to make the country
believe this grote>qus yarn.
DRIVEN TO STOP "DocroR1Ne
And meantime they we're cleaning
up in front Of his commission. I got
information from superintendent at
armou1's as 10 the precise room In
which they "doctored" spoiled hams;
but they had stopped "doctoriDg'
spoiled ham! A nlgat watchman tor
one OF the Big Three" who Is gi ing
me information, writes as follow S:
They knew just when the two new
commissioners were to oe out, and
extra men we're working half the
night getting ready"
In the Armour plant 1 saw with
my own eyes the 6coJorirg Cf' hams
that we're so purified that / cocid
not force myself to remain nea. them.
The hams we're on working table,
and man with q foot pump which
worked on the principle Of gigantic
hypodermic needle illed them with
a chemical which killed the odor.
saw skinned hams taken frou
bans so old that nobody could eat the
skin. Without the skins there is q
sale for them. Tlen the skins we're
taken and ground in big mortar and
sold as head cheese. Not a can OF
smoked or timed meat that goes out
OF those packing houses is free from
chemical preservation which must eat
ioto and corrode the lining OF the
stomach.
PoTTED HAMS MADE OF STALE BBEF.'
The Armour recipe for potted hams
as verified by TWO formsr superinten
dents, is to take the nubs OF mouldJ
smoked beef and grind IL in great
hoppers with rind trimmings.
know man who was high up In
the councils OF Armour s. Co., at the
time Of the Spanish American War,
and who is we'll known to President
Roosevelt, who says, upon his persona!
knowledge, that one chemist got $40
900 for tesaifying that the process did
not destroy the nutriment in the osef.
This man said that Armour alone
spent 100000 getting out OF the
scandal. This company contributed
$50, 900 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, I
am no ally convinced that they dc
exist in g degree only second TO those
in Chicago.
That the Chicago packers are alarm
ed and desperate In their determine
tion to have the Naill. Reynolds re-
port suppressed is shown by the fact
that they seut a man to try and in
| huence This commission, composed OF
James B Reynolds, former secretary
to Mayor L;w, and D litsd States
Commissioner OF Labor Charles P.
Neill violate no confidence in say
ing that much, for [ have it in a let.
ter f,om a man who learned of it
rom the Beef Trust representative
himself.
And now that all these tricks have
tailed, they put the screws on the
poor catule raisers and set them to
telegraphing!
Mue1 cause the cattle raiser has to
love the Beef Trust, and to pull its
chestruts out Of the FIRE. For years
ahe packers have bsen beating down
the price OF beef on the noof, running
the industry in whole States. They
caused forty banks to fail in a single
month. It has seen their regular
practice to raise prices to induce big
shipments, aud then lower them, and
scoop in all the cattle IN sight. And
il is these same cattlemen who have
often been stuck In Chicago without
money to get home by freight, who
are DOW set to telegraphing the Presi-
dent in behalf OF the condemned meat
industry!
INSPECTOR IN PACKERS EMPLOY.
Just few facts to show bow the
packers treat these cattlemen. Dr.
william z. J. qaes. oE Chicago, Who
was for two years at the head Of the
cit. inspection in that city, writes me
as follows:
"Olarautined meat is that which
has been suspected Of disease on The
noof, but after slaughter has been
found t. be good. The law provides
that this is to be sold at auction. Tns
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