Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-25
INSPECTION LAWS
HELP CONDITIONS
WILSON BELIEVES
REGULATION OF MEAT INDUS
TRY WILL AID FARMERS
Scare Over Packing House Scandals
Has Largely subsidized and Cont.
dence is Being Resained-some Del
plorabIe Conditions Remedied.

Sioux City, Aug. 24.-Farmers and
stock growers of the west and north-
west will not lose a cent as result OF
the meat inspection law; the expos
ures Of the packing houses by novelists
and writer's; or by the falling off in the
foreign trade on canned meats.
This was the declaration Of James,
Wilson, secretary of agriculture, who
arrived in Sioux City Wednesday,
from = Omaha, after inspectA
ing the packing houses there Mr.
Wilson spent the afternoon at this
Sioux City packing houses.
Mr. Wilson said:
"The scare over packing house con3
ditions will adjust itself in short
time. If stock. intended for Gamers
has not been In demand during the past
sixty days, believe 1t will be in de-,
mand later and that the farmers and,
stock growers will not lose on this
class of stock. 1t has been said that
large losses would be sustained as al
result of the packing house scandalss
don't believe that.
1.-THE conditions in the packing
houses have not been what they should
be. have found that almost every
place have visited AS to confirmingI
the statements of the young author OF,
The Jungle / would simply say that
the man who wrote that book did mott
know anything about packing house,
at is true that have found sons,
deplorable conditions. Many Of thel
packing houses are old, and I foundI
this condition in Omaha. They Wilt
have to be remodeled The investiga-l
tion conducted by our department Of,
animal industry and by the Presidents
through his commissioners, will red
suit in remodeling all the packina|
houses in the country, except those re1'
Gently built.
II am told" continued the secretarYj
Of agriculture. that one Of the plantsl
In Sioux City is an ideal plant, built inI
the most sanitary manner. l am here
to see that plant"
Asked IL the railroads would be res
quired or put to the necessity of hiring
inspectors to examine packing house,
products before accepting them for
shipment, Secretary Wilson said:
Stamp Ends Liability.
/ While the railroads are made liablo
| lHueI LHc new law, luSy VIII uOL Nc res
CURED to have inspectors at packing
houses where there are government inl
spectors.. II the stamp of our departs
ment Of animal industry is put on a
packing house product, that ends the
liability Of railroad company.
4 "On the other hand If a railroad com.
pany accepts products which are not
inspected or ships products from a
plant which has no government in4
spection, the railroad company would
need inspectors to determine whether
the products would pass the governs
ment inspectors"
| Mr.. Wilson predicted that better
conditions will obtain in the future.
Z He said his new inspectors are arriv.
ing every day to begin the more rigid
8 inspection and enforce the new laws.
, There will be little or no danger of an
,, unsophisticated public eating scraps OF
, tripe for pressed chicken, pig skin for
: deviled ham and other more or less
:. palatable substances for the real thing,
! but when the government inspectors
inscribe ham" on a piece of meat II
; will be ham.