Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-06-09

room on trucks, are forthwith cast
into the kissing steam boilers and dis
appear
"But the condemned steer does not
stay inIths tahkSanys longer than the
time required for his remains to 'drop
through the boiler down to the floor
below, where The is caught ION ~ tuck
and hauled back again to the cutting
room. The bottom of the tank was
open, and the Steer passed through
the aperture.
II have witnessed the fards many
times. have seen the beef dropped
into the vat in which a steam-pipe
was exhausting with a great noise so
that the thud of the beef striking the
truck below could not be heard. and
in a short. time i have witnessed
Nicholas brinsingf il back to- he pre-
pared for8the marked A'R''
81 have even marked beef with my
knife so as to distinguish it, and
'watehedaitt returna to ltheHD ointi where
'''-'*Ao Ny I'LL the evils " III the sFockyardsg
the canning department is perhaps the
worst. 1t is there that Hhe fHllEalssattfs
from all parts of the Omitted States
afe Sprepa edsf5f staRning Mo matter
ghow scrawnY or aebilitated miners
ardsthey faustsEo,the route VI their
brothers and arrive ultimately t6the
great boil ling yats Where theysHare
steamed until they are reasonably tenn
der. Bundles of gristle and bone melt
into pulpy masses and are stirred up
for the canning department.
81 have seen cattle come Ainto Art
mour's stockyards so weak and ext
hausted that they expired int the.aeots
rails, where they lay for an hour or
two, dead, until they~weres afterWard
hauled in, skinned, and put on the
market for beef or into the canning
fdepEtment=fes, cans y,FAa
I IN othsr~MprdsE hea Armour estab-
lisf5fn ent. MAS Bellfhg Earrion.s Eg
There are hundreds ofEother men
in the employ of Mr.. Armour who
could verify every line I have writ
ten. ~ They have known of these
things ever sineeEpacking HAS been an
industry. But l do not ask them to
come to the, front In this matter.r L
Stand on my oath, word pfor5word, sens
tence for sentence, and statement for
statement Y,8D OF mi Elff
II write this story Of my own free
will and volition, and no one is re-
sponsible for it but myself. 1t is the
product of ten years of experience.
1t u.s. the truth. the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, so help me
God! I5l'aGH y .f.I.s... ....I-
,., .,t.t..... THOMAS F. DOLAN.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this first day of March, 1899. g,.f.,..
.- "ORVILLE F. PURDY,
Notary Public, Kings County, NY r.,
sCertfficate filed in. New York coun-
ty."
The significance of this statement,
as Mr.. Sinclair notes, is heightened
by the fact, that, published as it was
in a newspaper of prominence, whose
proprietor is man of immense wealth
and could be reached by the courts,
Mr.. Armour made no move to insti-
tute suit for libel, practically admit
ting that the statement was true.
i Mr.. ,Sinclair~makes- the Insertion
anal gives abundant PROOF fhat the
worry incidental to the "embalihed
beefY scandal during the war with
Spain caused the death of Philip d.
Armour, and that millions of dollars
were spent by the packing interests
in the effort to keep concealed the
truth about = the matter. The awful
mortality from disease among the sol1
diers during that few weeks campaign
was distinctly attributable to the meat
rations supplied to the army There
seems small reason to doubt that meat
as little fit for human food is still
being placed on the market. How
much disease and death has been the
outcome may be imagined.
ra- Summing up the entire facts of the
situation. Mr.. Sinclair concludes:
Writing in magazine 1 of large
circulation and influence, and having
the floor all to himself, Mr.. Armour
spoke serenely and boastfully of the
quality of his meat products, and
challenged the world to impeach his
integrity, but when he was brought
into court charged with crime by the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he
spoke in a different tone, and to a
different purport; he said guilty
He pleaded this to a criminal indict-
ment for selling preserved minced
ham in Gfeenburg, and paid the fine
of $50 and costs. He pleaded guilty
again in Shenandoah, Pa, on June
.1S, 1905, TO the criminal charge Of
selling adulterated 'blockweirst;' and
again he paid the fine of $50 and costs.
Why should Mr.. Armour be let off
with fines which are of less conse-
quence to him than the price of a
postage stamp to you or me, instead
of going to Jail like other convicted,
criminals who do not happen to be
millionaires?"