Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-07-07


guards who have been accommodating
great fortunes by selling unwholesome
food to the American people"
In it's editorial columns The Times
says:
Horrible as are the details from a
sanitary point of view, the grinding
tyranny by which men, women and
children are forced step by step down
to the lowest depths of degradation
and depravity by the bosses of the
Beef Trust is perhaps more awful still.
The conditions of work in these estab-
lishments are at best sufficiently de-
moralizing, but they might at least be
mitigated by humane treatment. On
the contrary, they are aggravated by
brutal system carried out by brutal
agents, a system by which, in land
supposed to be tree and democratic,
the putocrat grinds the souls of men
and women as ruthlessly as his ma
chimes disintegrate his tuberculous
cattle, his cholera-smitten hogs, and
his putrid hams. Universal suffrage,
universal education, omnipresent free
libraries, all the panoply of modern
panaceas for the abuses supposed to be
inseparable from olden regimes, result
in a tyranny more body and soul-ue-
stroying than any exercised by auto
Gratis or feudal oppressors."
The anti-American Saturday Review
Uondon) is extremely pessimistic and
declares that legislation would be use
less. To quote:
What can bill do where bribery
and fraud are the atmosphere which
everybody breathes? There seems
more to be hoped from the natural
repugnance of consumers to be pois-
oned, and the consequent collapse OF
the business which supplies The pois-
on. No baser crime against humanity
| has ever been committed than that OF
wnicn the American meat trusts are
being accused. AS to the general con-
ditions of the meat industry they are
| like those that exist in other depart
ments of American industrial life
probably the worst in the world"
| The London spectator expresses
British Indignation in the following
cutting terms:
| The two worlds have been shocked
and Infatuated. The Chicago packing.
houses appear to combine pretty well
all the characteristic evils which de-
grade our civilization. They are reck
lessly selfish. They stop at no of
Tense that promises to serve their
purpose. They are grossly oppressive
to those in their employ. They are
familiar with every kind Of fraudulent
method for Disgusting diseased offal
which it pleases them to sell as meat
They know how to square officials ii
they are threatened by so much as the
shadow of inspection. They have not
even tried to conceal their misdeeds.
While The Daily News Oondon)
philosophically announces that the
corruption in the packing-house sys
TEN is a feature of the fight between
the people and the plutocracy," fight
which : is nearing it's contamination,
it rejoices that such prompt action has
been taken in the matter by the Pres
dent and the Senate. AS it says:
"Mr. Roosevelts mere threat to
publish his commissioners report has
silenced the packers and prevented
them from offering any effective oppo
sition to bill which has already pass
ed the American senate, and which
gives practically autocratic power to
meat inspectors who are to be ap
pointed by the government 1t is
clear from the report of the Presi
dent commission of inquiry that the