The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-06-08

yards, pick out the finest beef and
quarantine it., and after 1t was killed
get 1t at his own price for the pack
ers. When 1t was stated that would
make these bids open, it was intimat
ed that l might come into the
ring"
II suggest that 1t is time for the
cattle n en- to open their eyes, and not
believe all they read in Beef Trust
kilograms! Let them send on to Obi
cago and learn little about the
Standard Strengthening Company,
which kills these q gnarantined cattle,
and which Is owned by Hhe commits
sion men, who are supposed to be
looking out for the interests Of their
patrons, but are In reality selling them
out--having good meat quarantihed
and sold to their company at half Its
value.
cattle experts c,lled on the President
and told him tnat everything in Pack
ingtown was all right. II they did
that, they said what they knew was
false, for there Is not cattleman In
the United States who does not know
that what have charged about the
Condemned-M Industry is true.
| Hhe President knows 1t too, for he has
the report Of his commissioners.
1t is q business that has grown up
| With the trust system Of l'rge scale
1slaughtering and refrigerator car dis
tributor SO that now all the old,
dried-up, diseased and crippled cattle,
which formerly were buried In the
farmers back lot, are gathered up
and shipped to the nearest trust fac
tory to be converted into some kind
Of food.
There Is no secrecy at all about
this. You can go there to Packing
Down and see them you can't go there
and fail to see them, If you know
what sick cow is, and are honest
enough to admit It,. Among the hun
dreds Of letters have received about
these matters ia one from farmer IL
MINI sofa, who writes:
o le day hog buyer came to my
place and said: Have you any sick
hogs to sel!?' l ans wered Y IS, nearly
all my hogs are down with the chol
era He said: If they live till |
can get them on the cars l will pay
you good price for them. And 81
he did. Some time after this met
the oR-b1yer, and asked him how ht
came out on tue deal. He said: Two
OF Them died on the way to Chicago,
but l came out all right"
MEAT PRODUCTS ARE POISON.
l. wonder If there is any conuec ion
between that story and the one pup.
lished In the San Francisco Examiner
Of March 23, last, telling ho9 all the
iamates OF an orpha asylum In Vale
jo were poisoned by q can OF SWif6 81
Co. "a Jewel" brand of lard.
Eight years ago the United States
T.. NO a3a. .lr aeticafs tSs,t5 ofs
The products of the condemned meat
industry. 1t took many Thousand OF
able bodied men and isolated them Ia
Cuba, and forced them to eat packing
house timed meat. And the death
rate that followed caused a national
scandal. Everybody who Is on the
inside In Chicago knows that the
Beef Trust spent literally millions OF
dollars to hush up the facts, aud that
IT was the worry incidental to the
process which killed old man p. d.
Armour.
They are making the same kind OF
food today--some twenty millions OF
pounds Of boiled-out meat pulp kno8 8n
as Canned Roast Beef" goes out from
Armour ~ Co.'s alone every year; and
Into the Uins 20 the very same dlsin
fectants and dyes, the same gristle
and ta'low and potato -four, the same
pulvei q sd gullets and COWS uidefs
and heads and skins Of hcgs.
n newspaper dispatch says that the
demand for meat is falling cff as re-
suit Of my agitatio /, and that this is
5he reason the stock raising Interests
are sending kilograms. That Is true,
md 1T iS the first true statement the
Beef Trust has sent out in It's war on
| NE.
| MARKETING UNDER ASSUMED NAMES
Miss Alice Lakey, OF the N Ational
| Consumers' League, writes me that
the canned meat trade has fallen off
II per cent; and ono OF the assistap ts
who Is now at work In Packingtown
states upon the authority OF super
intendent that Armour 81 Cos. buai
ness has fallen fl 80 or 40 per cent
and that the big llrms are no longer
marketing their goods under their
own names, but are sending thcm Out
under false labels.
Naturally Mr.. Arm our Ia vexed at
seeing his criminal profits disappear
ing, but l Go not think that 1T win
help him TO send telegrams to Pfesi
dent Roosevelt, begging him to sup.
press the truth. II Mr.. Armour wants
the American people to continue eat
Ing his products, the thing for him to
do IL to let them see complete
thrcshing out Of the charges which
have been brought against him, spec
ii i3ally and In deSail. l have publicls
accused Mr.. Armour Of bribery and
corruption, and with criminal negll.
Rence or worse, in the preparation OF
the food OF an entire nation; and Mr..
Armour has not sued me, though !
have dared him again and again to do
it.
Is 1T b C aase Mr.. Armour's shrewd
detectives have found out the names
OF the men who have promised to gc
on the stand and back me up In case
1T comes TO fight.
Monkey aud Parrot Time.
The Democratic state convention OF
Tennessee, which convened at Nash.
vile on Tuesday, Of last week, be,
came q regular mob. Several fights
took place on the floor, and the police
had to be called In to preserve order
Ipncn unu Hnollu ,,atnhol 49,.