The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-06-08

II Is muck literally muck. which President Roose
welt has rAked out Of the Chicago stockyards for the
contemplation Of congress. We printed summary
OF the iSetReynolds report; we did not print II all
the full text being almost unprintabie II is one
long tale OF nlth hith NTH dlth almost unDpeakable
hlth almost unbelievable Filth deliberately cynical
~ foisted upon the people Of the country for food
The country stands appalled, at the distance to
which the greed for gain has carried the Chicago
packers Graft political graft, is bad enough in all
conscience. crookedness in politics. cynical isre
gard for the public rigbts ellis the people with just
indignaton-but what Is to be said Of Wholesale
tmnic in poison? Indeed, the poisoner who hates
his single victim and kills him In cold enduring
passion OF anger is almost respectable by the side OF
those who knowingly deliberately scatter disease
germs among millions Of people for the sake Of gain
The conditions in the stockyards not only tend TO
spread disease throughout the whole country, butt
they tend to the moral. physical and intellectual
degeneracy of the thousands OF Pacltingtown EN-
ployes and the Of this degeneracy and disease
which is constantly being increased and dinised Is
In reality IN the minds Of the responsible for the
situation The mental and moral decay Of the men
who sacrifice everything 70 the account book is the
real source Of all the concrete and physical decay Of
which the report treats It works itself out from the
hog mind to the hog it makes kogs OF the employees
and unchecked would give the taint Of the stye to
everything with which II came In contact.
These are not pleasant things to contemplate nor
to talk about; but they must be steadily contemplated
and resolutely condemned until public indignation
crysalizes into remedial laws II vigorous investi
cation Of the packers had been carried on seven
ears ago at the time Of the embalmed beer scandals
which shocked the world we might not have been
compelled to look at the present spectacle But the
Investigation seven years ago the part of the war
department came to nothing; it whitewash.
; This one we believe, will be different Congress can
scarcely refuse to heed the Presidents message or
respond to the storm of popular Indignation. The
remedy outlined by the President is simple one
merely thorough inspection the part of the gov
ernment OF meat which finds its way into the chan
nels Of Interstate commerce Foreign consumers are
already protectedit was necessary for the packers
TO attend to this or sacrifice part Of what they
appear TO love better than anything else earth
money The foreign consumers viii not stand for
tainted meat The American public has heretofore
been an easy mark" And not the least outrageous
part Of the whole situation is the attitude of the
packers towards the domestic consumers who have
enriched them
II appears that these greasy gentry, the packers
no matter what legislation is enacted to keep them
reasonably straight in the future, will escape all
nunishment for past and present offenses against
| common decency and simple honesty There will be
4 a general regret we imagine, when the Nell
REYNOLDS report IS read by the public az the prospect
that the men who responsible for the conditions
therein set forth not to go to the penitentiary