The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-03-15

tell in his own way a lew VI MS uAAA
culties and some of the discoveries he
made in his research.
For decades, he says, system mas
been developing in Chicago, entirely
unrestricted and unheeded, whereby the
public is made to puy End consume au
fine diseased and tainted meat which
can be gathered from the 5,Ooo'oo'
farms and ranches Of this country
When 1 first went TO Packlhft
found that the system had reacheo
stage in which the public mad peveh GU
ucated to ignorance-not merely, DIS -
the practices existing, but even 10 III.
laws concerning them. 1 wrote oooh
to tell the truth about 1t. Inc paoAeis
tried to bribe me, and to 1ntihloa'e IL.
thew sent detectives after me, anu 'rioo
IN influence my publishers not TO orihe
out the book. They filled the press Will
lies about me and even sent TO news
ooars to nrevent the books bein re-
viewed. ;.
And then the president read 1t ane
when he began an investigation theS
started the story that he was 1nvestlgat'
ing me. to get material to attack me
and for months they were able TO MAKE
the country believe this grotesque yarn
Meantime they were cleaning up In FROM
Of his commission. I received lnIorma
tion from a superintendent at Armour
as to the precise room in which they
doctored spoiled hams, but Wnen the
commission arrived they had stopped
doctoring spoiled hams. A night watcn
man for one of the Big Four, who is CIV
mo me information, writes as follows
.or,ev knew Just when the two new
commissioners were to be out and ex'
fra men were working half the n1gn'
getting ready"
Then they sent a man to try and IN
Nuence this commission and now that al
these tricks have failed, they put the
screws on the poor cattle raisers anc
set them to telegraphing. Much cause
the cattle raiser has to love the bee1
+rns+ and TO pull it's chestnuts out OF
the fire. For years the packers have
been beating down the prices OF peer
on the hoof, running the industry IN
whole states They caused forty pank.
to fail in Iowa in a single month. II
has been their regular practice TO raise
prices to induce big shipments and tner
lower them and scoop in all the cattle
in sight. And it is these same cattie-
men who have often been stuck In chi
cago without money to get nome oy
freight who are now set to telegraph
ing the president in behalf OF the con-
demned meat industry.
lust a few facts to show how tine
packers treat these cattlcmen: LII
William K jacques, Of Chicago, VINO
was for two years at the head or city
inspection in that city, writes me as
follows: "Quarantined meat is tha'
which has been suspected OF disease OF
the hoof. but after slaughter has bee-
found to be good. The law provides
that this is to be sold at auction The
chief meat inspector was employed pJ
one of the packers to buy this meat A
ring was made and the bids were II
writing and the meat was always OBJ
tanned at a small figure The CHIEF
meat inspector could ride through the
wards. pick out the finest beef anc
quarantine it, and after it was killed
get it at his own price for the packers
When it was stated that I would make
these bids open it was intimated that
might come into the ring"
I suggest that it is time for the cat
tlemen to open their eyes and not be-
lieve all that they read in beef trust
kilograms. Let them send on to Chi
cago and learn a little about the Stand
ard Slaughtering Company, which Kills
these quarantined cattle and which Is
owned by the commission men, who are
supposed to be looking out for the In
terests Of their patrons, but who are ir
reality selling them out-having gooc
meat quarantined and sold to their com
pany at half it's value. Two cattle ex'
perts called on the president and tolt
him everything in Packingtown was al
right. They said what they knew was
false and there is not a cattleman in the
United States who does not know thai
what I have charged about the con.