The Carlisle independent., 1906-06-07

In a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post Mir. J. Ogden Armour makes the assertion that the govern ment inspection of the beef trust slaughter-houses is an impregnable wall protecting the public from i'm pure meat, and that not an atom of diseased meat finds it's way into the products of the Armours. Mir Up ton Sinclair, author of The Jungle" ( a terrific statement of packing house conditions), studied the meat industry for two years, including much time spent in the Chicago stockyards as a workman; he is the best equipped outside authority on stockyard condi- tions. In Everybody's Magazine for May Mir. Sinclair makes startling and convincing answer to Mir. Ar mour's assertion. Commencing with the statement that J. Ogden Armour is the absolute and not the nominal head of the great packing house in- dustry which bears his name MT. Sin clair says: ''I know that in the state ments quoted, MT Armour willfully and deliberately states what he abso- lutely and positively knows to be falsehoods."
 That he might be properly equipped to describe conditions in Packing town" Mr. Sinclair worked for . period as a lahorer in the plant of Ar mour & Co.,, and he tells of sights of filth and horror such as he hopes never to see again, but the strongest coincidence of the truth of the claim that meat unfit for human food is put on the market comes from a man for years superintendent at Armour & Co.'S Chicago plant, Thomas F. Dolan, of Boston. MT Sinclair in his article says
 At the time of the embalmed- scandal at the conclusion of the Span ish war, when the whole country was convulsed with fury over the revela- tions made by soldiers and officers
 ineluding Gen. Miles and President Rooseyelt) concerning the quality of meat which Armour & Go. had fur nished to the troops, and concerning the death-rate which it had caused the enormity of the 'condemned-meat industry became suddenly clear to one man who had formerly super vised it. MT Thomas F. Dolan, then residing in Boston, had, up to short time previous, been a superintendent at Armour & Co.'S, and one of MT Philip D. Armour's most capable and trusted men. When he read of the death-rate in the army, he made an affidavit concerning the things which were done in the establishment of Ar mour Co.,, and this affidavit he took to the New York Journal, which pub lished it on March I, 1899. Here are some extracts from it:
 There were many ways of getting around the inspectors-so many, in fact, that not more than two CT three cattle out of 1000 were condemned. I know exactly what I am writing of in this connection, as my particular instructions from MT. W. E. Pierce, superintendent of the beef houses for Armour & Co.,, were very explicit and definite
 Whenever a beef got past the yard inspectors with a case of lumpy jaw and came into the slaughterhouse or the .killng-bed,' I was authorized by MT. Pierce to take his head of, thus removing the evidences of lumpy jaw, and after casting the smitten portion into the tank where refuse goes, to send the rest of the carcass on its way to market.
 T have seen as much as 40 pounds of flesh afflicted with gangrene cut from the carcass of a beef, in order that the rest of the animal might be utilized in trade.
 "One of the most important regula- tions of the bureau of animal indus try is that no cows in. calf are to be placed on the market. Out of a slaughter of 1000 cows. or a days killing, perhaps one-half are with calves. My instructions from MT. Pierce were to dispose of the calves by hiding them until night, or until the inspectors left off duty. The lit tie carcasses were then brought from all over the packing-house and skinned by boys, who received two cents for removing each pelt. The pelts were sold for 50 cents each to the kid-glove manufacturers. This occurs every night at Mir. Armour's concern at Chi cago, or after each killing of cows.
 T now propose to state here exact ly what I myself have witnessed in Philip D. Armour's packing-house with cattle that have been condemned by the government inspectors.
 "A workman, one Nicholas Newson during my time, informs the inspec- tor that the tanks are prepared for the reception of the condemned cattle and that his presence is required to see the beef cast into the steam-tank. Mir. Inspector proceeds at once to the place indicated, and the condemned cattle, having been brought up to the tank