Gunnison news-champion., 1906-05-18
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WHERE rROTDcTIooe

and Charles T. Eas-el. uGdsa Ar.
maur has stirred sp amoslser ''saas
with a muck rake. IL Upton Ssa-
CLAIR. she autbor Il The Jsa1ie.
Siuelai. : book vas the irais os ssv-
eral weeks living in Paeksnoso~n.
Chicago. by the author. Is the Nay
Everybody be- comes % the ssppor,
II Baker and Rassel ia a terrible
indictmeui 81 the con1eHpej meai
industry
Mr. Armaur. n bis SATURDAY, Even
ing Posi- ARTICLES. denounced as sbso.
utely false the allegaiioHs that eon-
demnel carcasses were made use II
bv Armour y Co. aud spll % the
publie foT FOOD in the dressed beef
and canned meats. In Armour a
Co business. SAYS the bead If the
house mot one atam ~ any con
iennei animal 6uds "a way, direct
" or indirectly. from any Source.
iui1 any food prudgci or food inere-
dent Mr.. Sinclair replies 10 this.
i know that in the statements quoted
above Mr. Armour wiilfullv aud de
hberately states what he absolutely
and positively knows TO be false
hoods He then proceeds to relate
in circumsiantial form how the ,ais
are deliberately arranged and plan
ned to save condemned carcasses and
reduce them 10 food products for
domestic consumption, but not for
export In fact, the federal ms pee
ton results. saws this writer. in fur
nisblng clean meats for Germany
and other foreign mrrkets, while it
makes certain the consumption Of all
the condemned parts which are not
destroyed. this country conseq sently
consuming not only its own share q
bad meat, but the share that 1elore
federal inspection went for export.
To show thaa federal inspection,
originally proposed by the packers
themselves 10 silence German com
plant and prevent the closing Of this
German market, works for the pack
ers and against American consumers,
Mr. Sinclair produces quantity of
evidence For instance, he quotes
this cynical sentence from the regu-
lations for inspection: NO micro
scopic examination will be made of
hogs slaughtered for interstate trade.
but this examination will be confined
to those intended for export trade "
And he adds the obvious comment:
"SInee ! per cent of all the hogs
slaughtered in Chicago are found to
be affected with tricbinosis. it fol-
lows that the American people eat
not only their own | per cent but
also the per cent of the share Of
/ Europe
Mr. Sinclair quotes eye witnesses
to the use which Armour & Co makes
for food products Of condemned car
cusses. And be clinches hls arpu.
ment by citing number of instances
m which Mr.. Armour pleaded guilty
and paid fine of $50 and costs for
exposing FOR sale adulterated food
products. w ny should Nh. Armour"
he says, "be let off with fines. instead
OF going TO Jail like other convicted
criminals who do not happen t. be
mlinonaires. Subsequently, the same
question Is suggested by President
Roosevelt In his special message tue
other day to congress on the release
tof Armour and others by Judge
Humphrey.
Nobody can read this exposure and
the testimony quoted IN IL Of honest
government inspectors who were re
moved because they were honest aud
took their duties too seriously. with
out recognizing the earmarks OF the
noble army Of grafters. The inspec-
ton law works for the packers bv
preventing the closing Of the foreign
markets to their meats. insuring for
eIgn consumers clean meats and re-
serving the condemned part for home
consumption; identicallv The same
thing in principle as the steel tariff.
Tor example, which enables the trust
TO sell steel rails for S22 to foreign
ers, while exacting S2S and S3ofrom
American buyers.
! When will the American people
rise up and put q stop to these infa-
mous gratis for which they paw un-
earned fortunes to a few smart mep2
All these corruptions of the principle
Of protection should be swept away
altogether The big trusts are able
TO stand alone and should he COM
PEELED to do %. The tariff duties
which have become tariff gratis
should be abolished.
Dodge City Journal.-The abovs
is taken from the Topeka capital and
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