The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-08

room on trucks. are forthwith cas-
into the kissing steam-boilers and dis
appear.
But the condemned steer does moi
stay in the tank any longer than the
time required for his remains to drou
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.
nave witnessed the farde many
times. | have seen the beef dropped
into the vat in which a 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 | have witnessed
nicholas bringing it back to be pre-
pared for the market
Il have even marked beef with NV
knife SO as to distinguish it. and
watched 1t return to the point where
it started.
VI all the evils of the stockyards
the canning department is perhaps the
worst. 1t is there that the cattle
from all parts of the United States
are prepared for canning. No matter
now serawny or debilitated Gamers
are, they must go the route of their
brothers and arrive ultimately at the
great boiling watts, where they are
steamed until they are reasonably ten.
der. Bundles of gristle and bone melt
INTO pulpy masses and are stirred up
Tor the canning department.
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.
In other words, the Armour estab-
nshment was selling carrion.
There are hundreds of other men
IN the employ of Mr.. Armour who
could verify every line | have writ
-en. They have known of these
'hlngs ever since packing has been an
industry. But | do not ask them TO
'ome to the front in this matter.
tand on my OATH word for word SEN
ence Tor sentence, and statement for
tatement.
write this story of my own free
vii and voliticn, and no one is re- |
ponsible for 1t but myself. 1t is the
roduct of ten years of experience
is the truth, the whole truth. and
othlng but the truth, so help me
cd.
THOMAS F. DOLAN.
sworn to and subscribed before me
lis first day of March, 1899
"ORVILLE F. PURDY,
Notary Public, Kings County, NY.
Certificate filed in New York coun.
The significance of this statement.
Mr.. Sinclair notes, is heightened
the fact that, published as it was
newspaper of prominence, whose
oprletor is a man of immense wealth
III could be reached by the courts
T. Armour made no move to insti-
tie suit for libel, practically admit. /
1g that the statement was true.
Mr.. Sinclair makes the assertion
q gives abundant proof, that the
'rry Incidental to the "embalmed
Ell scandal during the war with
'aln caused the death of Philip d.
'mour, and that millions of dollars
re spent by the packing interests
the effort to keep concealed the
lth about the matter. The awful
'rtallty from disease among the sol. |.
ers during that few weeks campaign
: distinctly attributable to the meat '
ions supplied to the army. There
Ems small reason to doubt that meat
niue MT for human food is still
ng placed on the market. How
len disease and death has been the !
-come may be imagined. I
up the entire facts of the L
nation, Mr.. Sinclair concludes:
Writing in magazine of large :.
and influence, and having :.
moor all to himself. Mr.. Armour !,
Ike serenely and boastfully of the y
ility OF his meat products, and =
llenged the world to impeach his y
egrity, but when he was brought :,
court charged with crime by tho :
lmonwealth of Pennsylvania. he -
ke in a different tone, and to a ~
erent purport; he said guilty. :.
pleaded this to criminal indict. u
1t for selling preserved minced -
In Greenburg, and paid the fine :
800 and costs. He pleaded guilty "a
In in Shenandoah, Pa, on June
1905, to the criminal charge of
ing adulterated 'blockweirst; and
IN ne paid the fine of $50 and costs OF
should Mr.. Armour be let off yo
fines which are of less conse.
nee to him than the price Of a sa
age stamp to you or me, instead ph
going to Jail like other convicted an
linals who do not happen to be
ionaires?" nh