The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-18
All Statements That Have
Been Made by the PaIlad-
ium Can Easily Be Proven
BY Referring to the Records
AN EFFORT is MAKING
TO BEllTTLE AGITATION.
There Are a Number Of Men
Leagued Together Who Are
Especially Anxious to Knock
Out Inspection.

"Dr. Charles $. Bond, acting in his
official capacity as health officer, In
10 be given all the credit for securing
government inspection I'm Richmond"
said DIR. o. III. Waggoner to the Pallad-
ium Saturday evening. Il should not
be given the credit. as has beoG@ given
me for securing the inspection" have
had but little. very little. To do with
it, owing to the fact that my position
here as government inspection re-
quired me to be absolutely neutral on
the question. | believe the attack re-
Gently made upon him is through jeal-
ousy." DIR. Waggoner further said
that probably DIR. Bond had not at all
times acted exactly as he should I'm
going about securing government in
spection. but this was due to Ignorance
of the government rules. A harder
worker for inspection he said he never
knew, and 1t was this work that had
eventually landed inspection for Rich
mond.
In the effort to belittle the Pallad-
ium's meat inspection articles. all OF
which were published i'm advance Of
any other paper in Richmond. the
statement was made that all cases
found were exaggerated. DIR. Wag-
goner made the assertion Saturday aft
ernoon that for each COW disc eased
with tuberculosis, which afforded ma
terial for a meat inspection article in
this paper. a record OF condemnation
could be found In his office. disprov-
ing the assertion that the articles
were made Of the whole cloth, as n few
enemies TO inspection would have the
public believe.
Well Backed Up.
The meat inspection situation -
mains about the same as II was. the
only thing to cnliven the situation be-
ing the earne st endeavor OF a few men
leagued together To knock out inspec-
ton. These men are doing everything
in their power to belittle the tubcrcu-
losis situation i'm this county, and
make the whole affair seem trifling.
With the statements OF DIR. Waggoner.
United States government inspector OF
meats, who has come In close contact
with the situation here and has con-
demned several more head OF stock
than has ever been published. and DIR.
Charles $. Bond, city health officer.
an expert on tuberculosis backing up
the Palladium's exposures. the state
ments of men who are belittling the
attempt to secure government inspec-
ton. sound very feeble indeed.
The agitation at the present time
seems to be the last gasp, a powerful
effort to create a sentiment which may
knock out inspection after it has been
stab which would save the
of the city several dollars
Zach year, and which will allow the
people of Richmond to eat diseased
neat in the future as they have un-
done in the past
All those who have seen the cases OF
at the butchering pens OF
he Richmond Abattoir, state that the
assertions of the Palladium in regard
o the characteristics OF the dreaded
disease, were not exaggerated I'm the
east. Two Richmond city council
nen who saw one OF the mildest cas-
Is found at the abattoir left sickened
It the horrible sight that was exposed
o them. These men were O. A. Left
vich and Henry w. Deuker.