Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-05-31
HORROR IN PACKING HOUSES,
Men Rendered Into Lard-What Is
POtted Chicken.

Roosevelt, and the rumor has been
telegraphed over the country that
the President has been persuaded
by the Beef Trust to suppress the
publication of the report, which
causes the chairman of said com
mission, Charles p Neil, to ap-
peal to Roosevelt to publish the
report, MIR. Neil declaring that if
the people are once convinced of
the horrors in the Chicago packing
houses they will force remedial
Legislation.
Il have written to the President
begging him not to allow any con
siderations to stand in the way of
publishing the findings of his
Commissioners, says Mr.. Neil.
Things that would horrify the
public if known are done there as
a matter of regular routine and
under an established system.
"I saw one of the trusts EN-
ployers doctoring spoiled ham in
the cell ar of one of the packing
houses. He had a great number
of hams IN big table. The
stencil that arose from them was
overpowering.
"The mau was working pump
with one foot: attached to the
pump was a tube, on the end of
which was a big hollow needle.
He would jam the needle into a
ham and then pump it full Of a
chemical to take away the dreadful
Odor.
IA few days ago l sent the Pres
ident several advertisements and
circulars in which dealers and pack
ers' SUPPLIES laud the virtues of their
wares. One firm guarantees that
its patent preservative will take
away the odor from spoiled meat,
no matter how advanced its stage
of moldiness or qualification.
"Skinned hams, which are sup,
posed to be a special product, are
only the hams of old hogs Will
skin so thick and tough that no
body will buy them. The skin il
removed aud ground up with spices
and potatoes aud called head cheese
One of the trade circulars which
sent to Mr.. Roosevelt contains this
RECEIPT for head cheese: Twenty
pounds potato -four, eight pounds
hog rine, one pound borax; spices
to flavor.
mo chickens are used in thu
Armour plant, for ported CHECKER
the flesh of unstable calves is fai
more profitable, and is used Amos
exclusively for that purpose. MOI
u shred of chicken meat goes int,
the eau Thousands of pounds 0
chemicals are used to die the mea
and to retard decomposition.
void cows, so near dead that the!
have to be carled, are used 70
canned roast beef. Fifty per cen
of them are with calf. Soup an,
beef extracts are made, the liqui,
drained from this hoiled meat.
Chicago newspapers we're sur
pfised when / told Of men fallinI
into lard tanks aud being rendere,
into lard. | personally have see
tanks with openings six feet acros
the tops almost level with the floo
and the room full of steam. Whel
the Presidents commissioners frs
came to Chicago. they heard storie
Of men falling into these tanks bu
refused to believe them until the
had further evidence
"a woman in my employ tol,
me her husband had been told b.
saloonkeeper that an employ 0
the firm fell into a vat Of boilinI
lard. He made no sound after b
disappeared IN the vat and the MAJ
that worked beside him gave th
alarm TO the foreman
gThe foreman immediately order
ed every other work man out 0
the vatrooms and locked the doors