The Grit-advocate., 1906-06-08

room on trucks, are forthwith cast
into the Kissing steam boilers and dis.
appear
But the condemned steer does not
stay in the tank any longer than tie
time required for his remains to drop
/ through the boiler down to the floor
below. where he is caught on a truck
and Eauled back again to the cutting
room. The bottom of the tank was
open. and the steer passed through
the aperture.
/ Il have witnessed the fard, many
times. have seen the beef dropped
into the vat in which a steam pipe
was eXhausting with great noise so
that the thud of the beef striking the
truck below could not be heard. and
In short time I have witnessed
. Nicholas bringing it back to be pre-
pared for the market
Il have even marked beef with nv
knife so as to distinguish it, and
/ watched 1t return 10 the point where
it started
/ "Of all the evils Of the stockyards,
the canning department is perhaps the
worst. 1t is there that the cattle
from all parts Of the United States
are prepared for canning. No matter
/ how scrawny or debilitatod Gamers
are. they must so the route OF their
brothers and arrive ultimately at the
great boiling watts, where they are
steamed until they are reasonably ten.
der. Bundles of gristlc and bone melt
into pulpy masses and are stirred up
for the canning department.
Il have seen cattle come into Ar
mour's stockyards so weak and ex-
hausted that they expired in the cor
rails, where they lay for an hour or
two. dead. until they were afterward
| hauled in. skinned. and put on the
market fer beef or into the canning
department for cans.
/ In other words. the Armour estab
/ lishment was selling carbon
There are hundreds of other men
in the employ of Mr.. Armour who
could verify every line l have writ
ten. They have known of these
things ever since packing has been an
Industry. But | do not ask them to
come to the front in this matter
stand on my OATH word for word. SEN
/ tence for sentence and statement for
statement.
! ri write this story of my own free
will and voliton. and no one is re-
sponsible for ii but myself 1t is the
product of ten years of experience.
/ 7. 10 tn -I,1
nothing but the truth, so help me
Gca.
THOMAS F. DOLAN.
| 'swcrn to and subscribed before me
this FIST day Of March. 1899.
"ORVILLE +. PtRDY,
"Nctary Public, Kings County N. Y.
Certificate filed in New York coun-
/ ty."
| The significance CT this statement,
as Mr.. Sinclair notes. is heightened
! by the fact that. published as 1T was
in newspaper of prominence, whose
| proprietor is man of immense wealth
and could be reached by the courts,
Mr.. Armour made no move to instl-
tute suit for libel, practically admit
ting that the statement was true.
| MIR. Sinclair makes the assertion,
and gives abundant proof, that the
worry incidental to the "embalmed
beef" scandal during the war with
Spain caused the death OF Philip Z.
Armour. and that millions of dolarz
were spent by the packing interestg
in the effort to keep concealed tus
truth about the matter. The awful
mortality from disease among the So,
diers during that few weeks campaisr
was distinctly attributable to the mes
rations supplied to the army TharS
seems small reason to doubt that meE;
as little fit for human food is su.:
being placed on the market. Ho,,'
much disease and death has been t.:
outcome may be imagined.
Summing up the entire facts of tn,
situation. Mr.. Sinclair concludes:
writing in a magazine Of larga
circulation and influence. and havir:,
the floor all to himself, Mr. Armor.'
spoke serenely and boastfully of tho
quality OF his meat products, ana
challenged the world to impeach hi,
/ integrity but when he was brougt:
| into court charged with crime by thc
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ES
spoke in different tone, and tc y
different purport; he said guilty.
He pleaded this to a criminal indict-
ment for selling preserved minced
ham in Greenburg, and paid the fine
of $50 and costs. He pleaded guilt
again in Shenandoah. Pa, on JUS
.16 1905, to the criminal charge o.
selling adulterated 'blockweirst:' art
again he paid the fine Of $50 and cost;
Why should Mr.. Armour be let c.
! with fines which are of less conse
quence to him than the price Of :,
postage stamp to you or me. instead
of going to jail like other convicted
criminals who do not happen to be
milionaires?'