The Socorro chieftain., 1906-06-09
Disease and Death the Inevitable
Results Of Eating the Flesh Of
Diseased Animals
A NOVEL BRINGS ABOUT A LAW
BY Its Portrayal of the RePulsive
Conditions and Practices in the
Slaughter Houses

or the nISt tlulc III tnC hiStoi)
of the United States a novel is to
become law. Upton Sinclair's
THE Jungle" has been written
into a bill by Senator Beveridge,
by means of which the public is
to be protected in its supply of
meats. Never before has such
an indictment been written
against any set of men as has
been set down by Sinclair.
Never before has a book, pillo-
rying through its truthfulness
the crimes of an intrenched
combination, stirred nation
until law grew from fiction"
All of Sinclair's charges have
been verified by President Roose-
velt's investigating committee,
Messrs. Neill and Reynolds.
Briefly epitonized, here is the
Sinclair indictment.
/ charge, and ! have proved,
that ]. Ogden Armour is guilty
of bribery and corruption and of
criminal negligence or worse, in
the preparation of the food of an
entire nation, and Armour has
not sued me, though ! have dar-
ed him again and again to do 1t.
Is it because Armour's shrewd
detectives have found the names
of the men who have promised to
go on the stand and back me up
in case it comes to fight?
charge that Philip Armour
was killed by the horrors of the
havoc he wrought in the Span
ish-American war by the slaugh-
ter of soldiers through poisoned
meats.
| charge, and | have proved,
that the beef trust spent millions
of dollars to hush those scandals,
and that they paid $4,000 to one
chemist to testify that tainted
meats was clean.
/ charge, and have proved,
that this same poisoned, diseas-
ed, filthy meat still is made into
food, and that Armour alone
every year sends out 10000, ,00C
pounds of boiled-out meat pull
as canned roast beef"
l charge, and ! have proved,
that spoiled hams, with overpOw'
ering odor, are modified by tht
use of preservativeS, poisOns and
chemicals that take away the
smell, but leave the taint. and
that these hams are sold in every
market in the world.
l charge, and have proved
that dyes and color matter tina
give to sausage the smoke
color of commerce and brinI
back that tainted meat to it
Origininal hue are a staple o
commerce.
charge. and ! have proved
that bull meat powder" )" zer
preservative" and other com
pounds are ground up with sau
sage meat and timed Hamburg
er steak.
/ charge, and | have proved
that decompOsed meat is canned
charge, and | have proved
that meat is dropped on fiool
where men expectorate and thu
it is not afterward cleaned.
| charge, and ] have PROVED
that men expectorate in the sal
sage that they are grinding.
| charge, and ! have prove'
that men have fallen into II
boiling lard watts and been rel
dered into lard.
| charge, and ! have proves
that human fingers and hands {
into sausage machines as huma
flesh and come out as sausage.
l charge, and ! have prove,
that diseased, condemned, cri
pied and shriveled cattle al
hogs are regularly slaughtere
prepared for the market and so
as first-class meat by the packe
/ charge, and l have prove,
that commission men control Il
Standard Slaughtering compan
which kills so-called "quaranti
ed cattle" that are bought
half price, although in perfe
condition, the commission IN,
selling the beef at market rate
/ charge, and / have prove
that the condemned meat indr
try is business that has grow
up with the trust system of lar
scale slaughtering and refrigei
ter-car distribution, so that nj