Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-07

grant practically anything the meat
packers Want. | shall produce photo
graphic copies OF them and perhaps
some original copies.
Thousands CT Sick Cattle Used.
The preliminary inquiry will show that
thousands upon thousands of cattle az.
ficted with tuberculosis ana other mallg
nant diseases are killed weekly and sold
TO the unsuspceting public as sound meat.
1T will show hat manned, bruised
and emaeiated animals are also turned
Into supposedly M meat, ! shan
prove the worst of ~them-those In which
the imoerfectlons cannot be hidden
are sold as sec~ond-grade meat to retail
dealers who supply the poor.
Personal Investigation in Kew York
revealed 10 Inc conditions 50 horrible that
much of what | saw and heard continu-
ally occupies my thoughts. The great
mass Of people in New York slun1s are
the purchasers of fearful stun called
meat, J encountered miserable coudi
lions in Philadelphia, Chicago and Omaha,
and Kansas City viii show equally bad.
This condition has reached such a stage
where decent men viii no longer stay in
The inspection service. Dozens of them
have come to me aud told me what they
were compelled to permit by their supe-
riors. shall produce n number of
former inspectors who loft the service
because they could not permit themselves
to remain parties 20 The outrage.
Il win produce men who will tell such
stories of how sausage is made and han
tInI fhaf ,tAsV NRfII In FzuA,-.. .y.-a1 -
eating such packing house products. |
win cite special instances of disregard OF
sanitation that win wildly remind you of
the hyglenIc ignorance of the middle ages.
'One striking feature OF the inquiry
will be a closer. demonstration OF the
fact that Secretary Wilson has been most
seriously hoodwinked again. With blind
confidence In some OF his subordinates,
he has permitted this thing to go on
until something must be done to preserve
the health of the nation.
MY attention was first called to con
ditions in the great packing houses by
Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane, of Kala-
mazoo, Mich, n widely known hygienic
worker. Mrs. Crane obtained possession
OF one of the secret order circulars and
had It photographed. Then she began
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to Investigate certain packing houses on
her own initiative.
what she saw and heard upon I'M
questionable authority more than proved
her first suspicious. She fastened to
Washington two months ago. My resol
luton is based not only on what she
saw, but upon what | saw, | know, and
can prove.
LAS this preliminary hearing pro-
crosses public opinion will be so aroused
hat Chairman Moss will have no other
alternative than to order one Of the
most far-reaching and searching investi-
cations conducted by Congress.
rendered ineffective by the PRONUNCIATION
of secret orders, ] shall quote several
sections from the regulations. One re-
lates to hog cholera and swine plague.
1t reads:
"'Carcasses showing well marked and
progressive LESSONS of cholera or plague
In more than two organs. skin, Kidneys.
bones or Emphatic glands. shall be con-
demned. Carcasses which reveal LESSONS
more numerous or advanced than those
for arcasse to be condemned, may be
rendered into lard.
Another relating to tuberculosis is as
follows: If tuberculosis LESSONS are To-
Called and not numerous, II there is no
Of distribution of tubercule
bacllli through the blood. or by other
means to the muscles or the parts that
may be eaten with The muscles, there
Is no proof nor even reason to suspect
that the flesh is unwholesome.'
SIN tho ha ndc of nnrznng WILLING m dA