The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-03
Packers Are Now to Wage Mag
azine Crusade in Their
Own Behalf.
PUBLIC GROWING WEARY
OF CEASELESS AGITATION
Glowing Tales Inspired By
Kings of Meat Industry Will
Occupy Columns.
Special TO The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2.-It is apparent
that the suffering Of the people In con-
nection with the packing house situation
at Chicago is not yet over, The news
papers and magazines have been over
flowing with terrible, shocking. nauseat-
ing. Gravity details until even a person
with a normal stomach and reliable di-
gesttVe apparatus has come TO the point
where a piece OF meat OF the most ire
proachable appearance must have GER
tiloate OF character attested before a
| notary before II can be considered as
a candidate for admission to the eXolu
sive privacy OF such normal persons In
Sides.
Al the same time it had been sup
posed that the worst WAS over, which
proves 10 be not the case.
Packers Turn to Come.
The other fellows havo had their in
ming with the magazines, but the packers
have still their turn TO come, and they
are preparing for It, BY all the signs OF
the moon here TO be observed we are to
have no relief from meat literature for q
long time TO come. For why should the
packers spend half a million on toilet
rooms for their help-rooms that are said
TO lay over anything to be found in the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York OF the New
Willard in Washington-if no one is to
hear or read about Il?
One OF the notable individuals invited
to contribute to the new series OF stuff
telling how the packing houses are look
Ing now is Hon. James ". wsdsworth
OF New York, chairman OF the House
Committee on Agriculture, whose ideas
on pucking-houee legislation were so
neatly and promptly upset by the Presi-
dent during the closing days OF the last
session OF Congress.
Author Is Very Modest.
Mr. Wadsworth does not say he has
been asked 10 write about the packing
bouse business by the packers them
selves. Some publisher or publishers
have done that. But. at any rate. he has
been Invited and In order TO comply the
gentleman who was acting as secretary
Of Mr.. Wadsworth's COMMITTEES during
the time when the President was stand
ing that committee upon its head, has
Just been 10 Chicago 10 look the situa-
ton IN the face and TO write OF things
as they are and rot as they were re-
ported 70 be.
Will Be Glowing Account
He was given ready access To Mr.
Armour and the other moguls of the
meat industry, and he spent three days
In going about and inspecting everything.
Ills account VIII be glowing IL IL is 10
De anything Ike the verbal character
he gives the renovated packing plants.
And II VIII also point out how the poor
farmers have been the only ones to really
be made TO suffer by the rash at
tacks OF the President and others
upon the packing business as recently
conducted. The farmers are catching
~. because the packers are not buying
a single Gamer" or. 10 speak more
plainly, not an underfed steer. What
they kill at the present time must all
be In prime condition and At for manu-
featuring into The very choicest of cuts.
Too Bad for the Farmer.
And the farmer who has been In the
habit OF finding n ready market in Chi
cago for all his half fattened partially
nurtured animals, can buy more feed and
keep them over for all the packers
care. They don't want them, and will
not want them until the clouds roll by
and the people show By their powers Of
consumption that the attacking series
Of magazine articles has been wiped out
by those written for the defense. When
people once more buy and eat canned
beef the packers will want Gamers. and
not before.
In the meantime the public will have
to grin and bear a second magazine cru
sade, replete with ornate descriptions
OF Immaculate meats and embellished
with pictures OF hand-polished packing
houses.