The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-08
UPTON SINCLAIR STRIKES BACK
Author of jungle" Prince Packers Awful
Array Of Facts Calculated 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 fards many
times. 1 have seen the beef dropped
into the vat in which steam-pipe
was exhausting with great noise so
that the thud of the beef striking the
truck below could not be heard, and
in short time l have witnessed
Nicholas bringing it back to be pre-
pared for the market.
81 have even marked beef with my
knife so as to distinguish it, and
watched it 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 vats, 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.
"In 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 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
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 heightened
by the fact that, published as it was
in a newspaper Of prominence, whose
proprietor is man of immense wealth
and could be reached by the courts,
Mr.. Armour made no move to insti-
tute suit for libel, practically admit
ting that the statement was true.
Mr.. Sinclair makes the assertion,
and gives abundant proof, that the
worry incidental to the "embalmed
beef scandal during the war with
Spain caused the death of Philip D.
Armour, and that millions of dollars
were spent by the packing interests
in the effort to keep concealed the
truth about the matter. The awful
mortality from disease among the SOL
diers during that few weeks campaign
was distinctly attributable to the meat
rations supplied to the army. There
seems small reason to doubt that meat
as little fit for human food is still
being placed on the market. How
much disease and death has been the
outcome may be imagined.
Summing up the entire facts Of the
situation, Mr.. Sinclair concludes:
writing in magazine of large
circulation and influence, and having
the floor all to himself, Mr.. Armour
spoke serenely and boastfully of the
quality of his meat products, and
challenged the world to impeach his
integrity, but when he was brought
into court charged with crime by the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he
spoke in a different tone, and to a
different purport; he said guilty
He pleaded this to a criminal indict-
ment for selling preserved minced
ham in Greenburg, and paid the fine
of $50 and costs. He pleaded guilty
again in Shenandoah, Pa, on June
16, 1905, to the criminal charge Of
selling adulterated 'blockweirst;' and
again he paid the fine of $50 and costs.
Why should Mr.. Armour be let of
with fines which are of less conse-
quence to him than the price of a
postage stamp to you or me, instead
of going toI jail like other convicted
criminals who do not happen to be
millionaires?"