The San Francisco call., 1906-05-28
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AUTHOR SCORES
The PACKERS
Upton Sinclair Says Real
Filth Has Not Been
Revealed.
Suspicious of Beef Kings
Who Did Not Fight
Senate Bill.
Special Disnatch to The Cali.

PRINCETON, On. j., May 27.-Upton
Sinclair, in an interview, demands the
publication of the report made to Presi-
dent Roosevelt by Neill and Reynolds, the
special commissioners, on the evil condi-
tions in the packing houses of the meat
trust Sinclair is the author of the novel,
1.-The Jungle" which called the attention
of the President to the need of action on
this subject and led to the passage by the
Senate of the bill providing for inspection
of all meats intended for interstate COM
merce.
'The packers attitude is a confession
of guilt, an admission of all that has been
charged against them" said Sinclair. "Up
to this week they were maintaining that
their establishments were as clean as
kitchens and were violently opposed to
the Beveridge bill.
II know from the inside that until they
got wind Of the Neill report they had all
arrangements made to fight They caused
the whole agitation among the cattle
men which produced the 1000 kilograms te
the President, but the instant they
learned what was in the report they sur
rendered and the bill was rushed through
under the direct supetintendency of their
agents in Washington, in the hope of pla-
eating the President.
THE interest OF the public is superior
n,
the public should have that report. II
should learn exactly what are the con-
sequences. Of trusting its supply of per-
ishable food product like meat to grouI
| of unscrupulous money makers.
The public deserves the shock which
the report would give it as punishment
for its carelessness. The packers need il
to teach them what the public think OF
the dyeing, embalming and adulteratins
of meat products. which goes on as
regular part of their business
The situation in the packing houses is
| exactly like the life insurance scandals
| Everybody does the same thing and takes
them for granted. A stranger goes anone
the workingmen in the yards and the
! things they talk about as commonplaces
make his hair stand on end If the whole
hideous sore is laid bare to the public
gaze the public would never again fall
asleep. That is what the people should
insist upon.
For one thing. they will learn from
Neill's report that the Government is
powerless to protect them against the To-
cal slaughter abuses. 1t is up to every
city and town to see that for itself and
at present no one knows this or cares
IF the public is to meet this situation
it must have the facts. Personally, I dc
not believe that the President will be per-
suaded to consent to suppression. His at
titude throughout this whole matter has
been one of the keenest and most inter-
ested in the public welfare, as 1 am in a
position to testify, and I predict that be-
fore many days he will have become sus-
picious OF the sudden sullen willingness OF
the packers to submit to his authority.
They did their best to balk him al
every turn while he was making his in
vestigation. They eshadowed his COM
mission day by day and did everything to
influence them to suppress parts of the
reports. -
THE only trouble. is that the interests
which desire to sell the public diseased
meat are so much better organized and
can make so much more noise than the
public which desires to be protected