Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-31
HIS LIFE May
BE IN DANGER
Upton Sinclair Talks of Pen Pic
ture, The Jungle Neill OBJ
tanned Convincing Proof.

WASHINGTON, May 81. = Upton
| Sinclair, whose attack OH the beef
packers in his novel, ''The Jungle"
dealing with Packingtown conditions
was the entering wedge of the present
| crusade against alleged awful abuses
in the packing houses, in a statement
said significantly that he intended TO
continue his fight ON the big beef men,
'if the packers do not put me out OF
the way"
Mr.. Sinclair has received warnings
from friends in Packingtown, Chicago,
that his life is in danger and that GER
tain of the packers would stop at moth
ing to halt his campaign.
Interest in the great fight which
President Roosevelt is making against
the so called beef trust is now CEN
tered in the demand made by the
house of representatives for the full
report of Messrs. Neill and Reynolds,
commissioners of the president On the
alleged packing house horrors in Chi
cago.
Mr.. Sinclair made a statement in
part as follows:
"As | told President Roosevelt when
he asked me, The Jungle is a picture
of what the wOrkingmen in Packing
town themselves believe about the
place. How much of what they believe
was true is something to be determined
by Investigators. President Roosevelt
agreed with that view and he sent the
investigators. | worked with them in
every way in my power to help them
to get the truth. l turned over to
them every shred of evidence, good or
bad, which l possessed and left it to
them to make up their minds about 1T.
Il have not the least doubt that they
rejected a great deal of it, 1t troubled
they rejected so much, but it did not
trouble me in the least, because Mr..
Nell had explained to me in advance
that he played the part of the devils
advocate-that he believed nothing
that he was not compelled to believe
by absolutely overwhelming evidence.
Il got the evidence from men who
took their jobs in their hands to give
it. l spent not only my own time, but
money also. I have been called a liar
and a knave all over the country, and
if l have been sincere and honest l am
entitled to vindication.
.'This being the situation, any n
may imagine what l felt when l learn
ed that the Beveridge bill was to be
accepted as a complete remedy and the
report held up. l said to myself if the
conclusions of Nell and Reynolds could
not be given to the public then there
was nothing for it but to have the
public form its own conclusions. Ac-
cordingly l intend to give out every
shred of evidence which / gave to
them, together with all that has come
to me since.
II have enough to last a week or
more if the public can stand it and the
packers do not get me out of the way.
Of course what | have is not me-
tenth of what NELL and Reynolds got;
also Neill and Reynolds We're scientific
specialists, while l am simply a free
lance novelist. But l am the best the
public has in the emergency"
New revelations made in Chicago, it
is reported. show that "Elgin" butter
is made in Minnesota, New Jersey"
chickens grow in Iowa and canadian
cheese is imported" from Indiana.
All England is said to be aroused
by the revelations concerning the
stockyard conditions in this country,
and Labor members of parliament may
insist on a rigid Investigation, as the
English army a large guam
tity of American beef.
DR.. j. C. Mines of Chicago, who was
for ten years a meat inspector, sta
toned in establishments owned by the
beef trust, declares that cattle afflicted
with 'lumpy jaw" or plainly suffering
from other diseases which rendered
them unfit for food were bought by the
trusts agents, who b~argained for them
and usually got them at a low price.