Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-06-07
UPTON SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK
Author of "The jungle" Faces Prince of Packers With Awful
Array of Facts Calculated to Destroy the
Infamous Industry.

room on trucks, are forthwith cast
into the Kissing steam-boilers and dis
appear.
"But the condemned steer does not
stay in the tank any longer than the
time required for his remains to drop
through the boiler down to the floor
below, where he is caught on a truck
and hauled back again to the cutting.
room. The bottom Of the tank was
open, and the steer passed through
the aperture.
II have witnessed the farde many
times. l have seen the beef dropped
into the vat in which a steam-pipe
was ~exhausting with a great noise so
that the thud Of the beef striking the
truck below could not be heard, and
in a short time l have witnessed
Nicholas bringing it back to be pre-.
pared for the market.
81 have ever marked beef with my
knife so as to distinguish 1t, and
watched 1t return to the point where
it started. .
"0f all the evils of the stockyards,
the canning department is perhaps the
worst. 1t is there that the cattle
from all parts Of the United States
are prepared for canning. No matter
how scrawny or debilitated tanners
are, they must go the route of their
brothers and arrive ultimately at the
great boiling watts, where they are
steamed until they are reasonably ten
der. Bundles of gristle and bone melt
into pulpy masses and are stirred up
for the canning department.
II have seen CATTLE come into Ar
mour's ~stockyards so weak and ex-
hausted that they expired in the cor
rails, where they lay for an hour or
two, dead, until they were afterward
hauled in, skinned, and put on the
market for beef or into the canning
department for cans.
SIN other words; the Armour estab'
lishment was selling carrion.
"There are hundreds Of other men
in the employ Of Mr.. Armour who
could verify every line l have writ
ten. They have known of these
things ever since packing has been ar
industry. But I do not ask them tt
come to the front in this matter.
stand on my oath, word for word, sen
tence for sentence, and statement fol
statement.
II write this story of my own free
will and volition, and no n Is re
sponsible for 1t but myself. 1t is the
product of ten years of experience
1t is the truth, the whole truth, ant
nothing but the truth, so help m
God.
THOMAS F. DOLAN.
"Sworn to and subscribed before MI
this first day of March, 1899.
"ORvILLE F. PURDY,
Notary Public, Kings County, N. Y.
certificate filed in New York coun
ty."
The significance of this Statement
as Mr.. Sinclair notes, is ~heightene
by the fact that, published as 1t wa
in a newspaper of prominence, who's
proprietor is a man Of immense wealt
and could be reached by the courts
Mr.. Armour made no move to inst
tute suit for libel, practically admi
ting that the statement was true.
Mr.. Sinclair makes the assertion
and gives abundant proof, that tn
worry incidental to the "embaime
beef scandal during the war wit
; Spain caused the death Of Philip
: Armour, and that millions of dollar
!. were spent by the packing interest
in the effort to keep concealed tn
truth about the matter. The aWfl
) mortality from disease among the so
I diers during that few weeks campais
. was distinctly attributable to the me-
rations supplied to the army. Thel
seems small reason to doubt that me;
= as little fit for human food is sti
being placed on the market. Ho
e much disease and death has been tt
outcome may be imagined.
S Summing up the entire facts of tt
h situation, Mr.. Sinclair concludes:
writing in a magazine of lars
s circulation and influence, and havir
i the floor all to himself, Mr.. Armo,
spoke serenely and b%oastfully of tt
quality of his meat products, ar
d challenged the world to impeach b
r integrity, but when he was brougl
e into court charged with crime by Il
commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, !
y spoke in a different tone, and to
different %purport; he said guilt.
He pleaded this to a criminal indie
ment for selling preserved minc'
n ham in Greenburg, and paid the fiji
h of $50 and costs. He pleaded gull
y again in Shenandoah, Pa, on Jul
.16, 1905, to the criminal charge
n selling adulterated 'blockweirst;' al
again he paid the fine of $50 and cost
q Why should Mr.. Armour be let
d with fines which are OF less cons
% ouence to him than the price OF
= postage stamp to you or me, instei
q of going to Jail like other convict
criminals who do not happen to
k. millionaires"