Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-15

Evening Post Mr.. j. ogden Armour
makes the assertion that the govern
naent inspection of the beef trust |
slaughter-hous is an impregnable
wall protecting the public from i'm +
pure meat, and that not an atom of
diseased meat finds its way into the
products of the Armours. Mr.. Up
ton Sinclair, author of .rhe Jungle"
terrific statement of packing house
conditions), studied the meat industry
fer two years, including much time
spent in the Chicago stockyards as a
workman; he is the best equipped
outside authority on stockyard condi-
tions. In Everybody's Magazine for
May Mr.. Sinclair makes startling
and convincing ancwer to Mr.. Ar
mour's assertion. Commencing with
the statement that ]. Ogden Armour
Is the absolute and not the nominal
head of the great packing house in
dustry which bears his name Mr.. SIN
clair says: 81 know that in the state
ments quoted, Mr.. Armour willfully
and deliberately states what he abso-
lutely and positively knows to be
falsehoods."
That he might be properly equipped
To ueS"IlUV III IdChlnS-
town" Mr.. Sinclair worked for
period as laborer in the plant of Ar
mour 6 Co., and he tells of sights of
filth and horror such as he hopes
never to see again, but the strongest
coincidence of the truth of the claim
that meat unfit for human food is put
on the market comes from a man for
years superintendent at Armour &
Co.'s Chicago plant. Thomas F. Dolan,
of Boston. Mr.. Sinclair in his article
says:
Eat the time of the embalmed-beef
scandal at the conclusion of the Span
ish war, when the whole country was
convulsed with fury over the revela-
tions made by soldiers and officers
(ineluding Gen. Miles and President
Roosevelt) concerning the quality of
meat which Armour & Co. had fur
nished to the troops, and concerning
the death-rate which it had caused
the enormity of the 'condemned-meat
industry became suddenly clear to
one man who had formerly super
vised it. Mr. Thomas F. Dolan, then
residin~ in Boston, had, up to a short
time previous, been a superintendent
at Armour & Co.'s. and one of Mr.
Philip D. Armour's most capable and
trusted men. When he read of the
death-rate in the army, he made ar
affidavit concerning the things which
were done in the establishment of Ar
mour G Co.. and this affidavit he tool
to the New York Journal, which pub
1ished 1t on March 4. 1899. Here ar,
some extracts from it:
There were many ways of gettin!
around the inspectors-so many, ii
fact. that not more than two or tire
cattle out of 1000 were condemned
know exactly what I am writing
of in this connection, as my particula
instructions from Mr.. w. E. Pierce
superintendent of the beef houses 70
Armour & Co., were very explicit an
definite.
Whenever beef got past the var
inspectors with a case of lumpy jay
and came into the slaughterhouse 0
the killng-bed,' l was authorized b
Mr.. Pierce to take his head off, thu
removing the evidences of lumpy jaw
and after casting the smitten porto
into the tank where refuse goes,
send the rest of the carcass on IL
way to market.
81 have seen as much as 40 pound
of flesh afflicted with gangrene C,
from the carcass of a beef, in orde
that the rest of the animal might /
utilized in trade.
zone of the most important regul
tons of the bureau of animal indu
try Is that no cows in calf are to
placed on the market. Out of
slaughter of 1000 cows. or a day
killing, perhaps one-half are wi
calves. My instructions from M
Pierce were to dispose of the calv
by hiding them until night or uni
the inspectors left of duty. The |
tie careasses were then brought fro
all over the packing-house and SKIM
by boys, who received two cents
removing each pelt. The pelts we
sold for so cents each to the kid-g!o
manufacturers. This occurs eve
night at Mr. Armour's concern at CT
cago, or after each killing of cows.
tI now propose to state here exa
ly what l myself have witnessed
Philip D. Armour's packing house w
cattle that have been condemned
the government inspectors.
"a workman, one Nicholas News
during my time, informs the insp
tor that the tanks are prepared for
reception of the condemned cattle a
that his presence is required to
the beef cost into the steam-tank
Inspector proceeds at once to the pl
indicated, and the condemned cat
having been brought up to the ia