Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-06-15
UPTON SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK
of "The Jungle" Faces
Array Facts calcu D. stroy
Infamous Industry.

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 truck
and hauled back again to the cutting
room. The bottom of the tank was
open, and the steer passed through
the aperture.
Il have witnessed the fards many
times. l have seen the beef dropped
into the vat in which a steam-pipe
was exhausting with a great noise so
tnat the thud of the beef striking the
truck below could not be heard. and
in a short time I have witnessed
Nicholas bringing 1t back to be pre-
pared for the market
Il have even marked beef with my
knife so as to distinguish it, and
watched 1t return to the point where
it started.
"Of 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 Gamers
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
ncour'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.
I'm 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 I have writ
ten. They have known Of these
things ever since packing has been an
industry. But I do not ask them to
, come to the front in this matter.
stand on my oath, word for word, SEN
, tence for sentence, and statement for
statement
! ''I write this story of my own free
will and volition, and no one is re-
sponsible for it but myself 1t is the
: product of ten years of experience
, 1t is the truth, the whole truth, and
! nothing but the truth, so help me
). God.
/ THOMAS F. DOLAN.
: "Sworn to and subscribed before me
e this first day of March, 1899.
"ORvILLE F. PURDY,
q Notary Public. Kings County. N. Y.
n Certificate filed in New York coun
! ty."
The significance of this statement
o as Mr.. Sinclair notes, is heightened
r by the fact that, published as it wa,
in a newspaper of prominence, who's
n proprietor Is man of immense wealth
Il and could be reached by the courts
Mr.. Armour made no move to insti
4 tute suit for libel, practically admit
: ting that the statement was true.
:. Mr.. Sinclair makes the assertion
~ and gives abundant proof, that tn
. worry incidental to the "embalme'
:, beef scandal during the war witt
- Spain caused the death of Philip {
). Armour, and that millions of dollar
ts were spent by the packing interest
in the effort to keep concealed tn
truth about the matter. The awfu
Is mortality from disease among the so
ut a;ar, du-;na +h.+ fau waalrs, camnaio,
er was distinctly attributable to the mea
De rations supplied to the army. Their
seems small reason % doubt that mea
a as little fit for human food is sti
IS being placed on the market. Ho'
be much disease and death has been tn
outcome may be imagined.
rs Summing up the entire facts of til
tn situation, Mr.. Sinclair concludes:
lr writing in a magazine of lare
es circulation and influence, and havin
I'll the floor all to himself, Mr.. Armol
II spoke serenely and boastfully of IL
I'm quality of his meat products, an
ed challenged the world to impeach h
-or integrity, but when he was brougl
ere into court charged with crime by Il
we commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Try spoke in a different tone, and to
nj different purport; he said guilt.
He pleaded this to a criminal indie
ct ment for selling preserved minc'
IN ham in Greenburg. and paid the fl
it'll of $50 and costs He pleaded gull
by again in Shenandoah, Pa, on Jul
16, 1905, to the criminal charge
son selling adulterated 'blockweirst; al
Zee again he paid the fine of $50 and cos
the Why should Mr.. Armour be let
ind with fines which are of less con!
see quence to him than the price of
Mr. postage stamp to you or me, inste
ace of going to jail like other convict
tie. criminals who do not happen to
nix millionaires?"