West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-06-28
CONDENSED NEAT INDUSTRY.
TO the Newspaper Editors of
America:

and convinced himself OF the falsity
OF the charges made in "The
Jungle" and that he proposed 10
make its author the centor of his
"Man with the Muck Rake" speech.
The basis of this story was two.
column dispatch, which was printed
in the Chicago Tribune on April
10th, signed by its Washington
correspondent. In this dispatch
these statements were made posi-.
lively, and with every appearance OF
authority, as coming directly from
the President and at his desire; and
from first to last the story was a fab
rication.
II was one more illustration OF
how the Beef Trust fights. For
nearly two years now have been
contending against these secret in.
fuences. They have sent men to
bribe me; they have put detectives
at work tracing my past, in the hope
OF finding something to compromise
me; they have circulated falsehoods
about me in the newspapers, and
tried to influence my publishers
against bringing out my book; they
have discharged men in the stock
yards whom they suspected of
having given me information; they
have called others up to their Offices
and threatened to discharge them
fo- selling the book. They have
sought to annoy me in still more
pretty and Objectionable ways; and
am resolved to try to make them
come out into the open and fight.
The Chicago Tribune correspond
ent said that l made charges of
knavery and crime, and had no facts
to back them up.
gave some of the facts in the
May number of Everybody's
Magazine, in my article, entitled.
"The Condemned Meat Industry, a
Reply to Mr.. ]. Ogden Armour. Z"
If you will read this article you
will observe that / have INDUCED in
no rhetoric in the course of it. 1
have used no adjectives and called
no names. / have tried to make it
read like legal brief. There are
no assertions of my own; there is
nothing to be taken upon my own
word; there are sffidavits and chem
lists analysis, official reports and
independent inyestigations-all
facts.
And they are all facts which bear
upon one man, personally and indi-
vidually. What they prove is that
he himself, of his own free will and
personal knowledge, is occupied in
sending out, selling and causing to
be eaten by the people of Amer lea,
millions of pounds of di seased, faint
ed, preserved, dyed and adulterated
meat products every week that he
lives.
And what has been Mr.. Armo ur's
answer to this eyidence1 What
has he had to say to the newspapers
about it7
More advertisements!
Every time that a campaign of ex-
Posure against the Chicago packers
has begun in the magazines they
have spent literally millions of
dollars in advertisements.
If you saw a man committing a
murder, and yon rushed to inter
fere, what would you say to a
person who offered you an advertise
meni if you would stop1 Yet here
is man who is engaged in murder
by wholesale, in the everyday
routine OF his business, and he
offers you an advertisement so that
you will not let his victims KIN ow
what he is doing.
For do not make any mistake
about the meaning of this thing
which have called "The Con-
demned Meat Industry"-it means
murder!
The selling for human food of the
carcasses of cattle and swine which
have been condemned for tubercolo
sis, &C tinomycosis and gangrene; the
converting of such carcasses into
sausage and lard; the preserving of
spoiled hams with boric and salicylic
acid; the coloring of canned and
potted meat with aniline dyes; the
embalmlng and adulterating of
all Of these thing mean the dealing
out 70 hundreds and thousands of
men, women and children Of
sudden, horrible and agonizIng
death.
One hundredlh part of what I
have charged ought If it is true, to
be enoug to send the guilty man to
the gallows.
One hundredlh part of what
have charged ought, il il is false, TO