The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-06-06

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tanned at a small figure. The c lie
meat inspector could ride through th
yards, pick out the finest b5ef an
q 1arantine it, snd after it was killet
get it at his own price for the pack
ers. When it was stated that I woult
make these bids open, it was intima5
ed that I might come into th'
ring"
II suggest that 1t is time for th'
cattle n On to open their eyes, and no
believe all they read in Beet Trus,
kilograms. Let them send on to Chi
cago and learn q little about tht
Standard Slaugntering Company
which kills these qnaranttned cattle
and which is owned by the commits
sion men, who are supposed to b.
looking out for the interests Of thei]
patrons, but are in reality selling then
out--having good meat Qua1aitineo
and sold to their company at half Its
value.
IN awspaper report says that two
cattle experts ca;lad on the President
and told him tina. everything in Pack
ingtown was ali right. II they did
snat, they said what they knew was
false, for there is not cattlen an in
the Uaited States who does not know
that what I have charged about the
Condsnned-Meat Industry is true.
The President knows it too, for be has
the report Of bis Commissioners.
1t is a business that has grown ur
with the trust system OF large scale
slaughteriug and refrigerator car dis,
tributior; so that now all the old,
dried-up, diseased and crippled cattle,
which formerly we're buried In The
farmers back lot, are gathered up
and shipped to the nearest trust fac
tory to be converted into some kind
Of food.
There is no secrecy at all about
this. You can 60 there to Packing
town ard soc teAaec; you can't go there
and fail 20 See them, if you know
what sick COW is, and are honest
enough to admit it. Among the hun
dreds OF letters I have received about
these matters is one from farmer iD
MiDn scta, who writes:
Oae day a hog buyer came to my
place and ssid: Have you any sick
hogs to seli?' answered, Yes, nearly
all my hogs are down with the chol
era He said: II they live till I
can get them on the cars will pay
you a good price for them And sc
be did. Sone time after this I net
the hog-buyer, and asked him how be
came out on the deal. he said: Two
OF them died on the way to Chicago,
but / came out sll right"
MEAT PRODUCTS ARE POISON.
I wonder II there Is any connec ion
between that story and the one pub.
lished ln the San Francisco Examiner
Of March %, last, telling ho~ all the
inmates OF an orpha asylum IN Vale
j. were poisoned by can OF Swift &
CO.. Jewel" brand Of lard.
Eight yeaIs ago the United States
Government made a practical test Of
she products OF the condemned meat
industry. It took many thousand OF
able bodied men and isolated them in
Cuba, and forced them to eat packing
house timed meat. And the death
rate that followed caused national
scandal. Everybody who is on the
inside in Chicago knows that the
Beef Trust spent literally millions OF
dollars to hush up the facts. and that
it was the worry incidental to the
process which killed old man P. D.
Armour.
They are making the same kind OF
food today-some twenty millions OF
pounds Of boiled-out meat pulp known
as Canned Roast Beef" goes out from
s. Co. S alone every year; and
into the tins go the very same disin
tectants and dyes, the same gristle
and ta!low and p)tato four, the same
pulver zsd gulless and cows uidsrs
and heads and skins OF hogs.
A newspaper dispatch says that the
dsmand fer meat is falling off ss re-
suit Of my agitat;o /, and that this is
the reason the stock raising interests
are sending telegrams. Tnat is true,
and it is the first true statement the
Beef Trust has sent out in its war on
me.
UNDER ASSUMED NAMES.
Miss Alice Lakey, Of the N stional
Consumers League, writes me that
tne canned meat trade has fallen off
II per cent; and one OF the assistants
who is now at work in PackingtoWn
states upon the authority Of a super
intendent that Armour s. Cos. busi-
ness has fallen IF 30 OF 40 par cent
and that the big firms are no longer
marketing their goods under their
own names, but are sending them ou.
urder false labels.
Naturally Mr. Arm our is Vexed at
seeing his criminal profits disappear
ing, tu5 DO not think that it will
help him to send teleg'ams to Pfesi
ient Roosevelt, begging him to sup
press the truth. II MI. Armour wants
the American people to continue eat
ing his products, the thing for him to
do is to let them see a complete
thrsshing out OF the charges which
have bsen brought against him, spec.
6cally and in detail. have publicly
accused MI. Armour Of bribery and
corruption, and with criminal negli-
gence or worse, in the preparation OF
the food Of an entire nation; and Mr..
Armour has not sued me, though |
have dared him again and again to do
it.
Is it becaase Mr.. Armour's shrewd
detec Gives have found ou5 the names
OF the men who have promised to 20
on the stand and back me up in case
it comes to fight.
Monkey aud Parrot Time.
The Democratic state convention OF
T,rnoccoe q h;cb cop veneS at Mach.