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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS. teBEEfTRT RIE) J Provision Inspecting American Meats Tacked on Agricultural Bill- ""J Senator Beverldge presented a rad ical amendment to tbe agricultural ap propriation bill tbe other day which was passed promptly. Back of the ease and celerity with which this ac tion was accomplished Is a story. It Is an Interesting one too, for it shows how the President for once, at least, was able to bold the big stick over the Senate, and the great packing Inter ests and forced the amendment with which he was In accord. The rider that was tacked on to tbe 7,800,000 appropriation bill In the Senate at the last moment without discussion, provides for the same sort of an inspection of meats for home consumption that is provided for those which are sent abroad. It will cost the great packing house Industry sev eral million dollars each year, for they will have to pay for the inspec tion. When the question came up be fore Congress as to who should as sume the expense of this work the packing house lobby objected stren uously to putting up any money for it, notwithstanding the fact that some months ago when there was an in- THE ORIGINAL SWIFT MEAT sufficient appropriation for foreign in spection, a number of large packing bouse concerns voluntarily offered to defray the cost involved. CONSUMER PATS COST ANYWAY. It Is stated that, of course, the pack ing house people, otherwise the beef trust, will pass the cost of the inspec tion along to the consumer; but as it will only amount to about 5 or 6 cents a head on each carcass the Increase will not be appreciable In the Individ ual beef steak, at least It onght not to be, but tbe combination of packers, dealers, wholesalers, retailers, etc., will doubtless make an excuse for put ting up meat at least a cent a pound, and thus make an Investment of many hundred per cent off the amount which they pay for the Government Inspection. HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN. Some time ago Upton Sinclair pub lished "The Jungle." It was a novel and horrible. It showed that the In spection service at the Chicago pack ing houses was wholly Inadequate. It was proved that the Government In spectors passed on the conditions of the carcasses when the animals were killed; but after that there were no Inspections and the conditions were Incredibly revolting. Presldmt Roose velt read the book and Is stated to have been outraged at the statements made. Were they true or were they exaggerated? He made some inquiries and found that the statements were all well founded. Then he was genuinely angry. Secretary Wilson sent a com mission out to look Into the condition of affairs, but the President was ap parently not satisfied with the Govern ment commission, so be sent his close personal friend, Mr. J. B. Reynolds, a prominent social worker and a man of means, and Mr. Charles P. Nelll, tbe United States Commissioner of Labor, on a purely personal Inspection tour. Tbe expenses of the two investigators were paid by tbe Government, but the men received no salaries and the In quiry was, In a way, unofficial There has never yet been any writ ten report made public from these two Investigators; likely there will not be; but tbe President knows all' they found out, and the packers know It too. Both the President and the packers were horrified; the reasons were different The story around the Capitol regarding this Investigation runs something like this: Tbe packers said, "If this sort of a story gets out It will ruin our business abroad." Tbe President remarked In effect, "If til that I know gets out, It will rain your business at bom too." "Now," said the packers, "make any sort of an Inspection law yon want, pass It and we will stand for It, and STOCK promise to be good In the future, Tint do not make a public scandal of this1 matter." FOR A STRICT INSPECTION LAW. The President Is reported to have Intimated that he was willing, and the Inspection law will be passed, with- jj mi jUAJWi . 1 x i.ai..UJi llfTirii i Bs asatTlsaMt i.s.i iintW ailla.niswJ.m V KU1J-" h-11; 'out scandal if It can be, but with scandal if it must He recognized that there were many innocent interests which would be severely damaged by the publication of this report What he was after principally was results for the future. There is another peculiar feature which Is having some weight in the ease with which the inspection law gets past what would ordinarily be an almost insurmountable barrier. -It seems that Mr. Sinclair is writing an other book. It will be more damaging than the Jungle. It is to be an expose of the whole packing business from the report of the "Embalmed' Beef Commission" down to the present time and the combination of official docu ments and statements of eye wit nesses. When this book appears the packers are very anxious to be able to say that the practices alluded to therein are a thing of the past "and that no such conditions can exist un der the present Government Inspec tion." The new act provides au inspection that does not stop at the gate of the - PACKING PLANT. CHICAGO. packing house, but follows the animal through all departments until It reaches the can or the cooler. There Is- some antagonism presented to the bill in the House, on the grounds of constitutionality and otbtr excuses, but if any actual opposition should develop it will mean a thor ough hearing in committee on both sides of the question and it is pre sumed that this is about the last thing the packers actually desire. Seldom, If ever, has the public been more aroused over any public question, The fact that the meat consumption entered vitally Into every home, coupled with the terrible charges, made not only In tbe "Jungle," but through many other credible sources, has aroused a state of public senti ment which Is akin to revolutionary. On the whole, in tbe face of an In tensely suspicious public, an arousedy Congress and a determined rresmeni, tne Deer trust is now up m, tight of Its life. While the rreswent Intended to use his private report as a C1UD to lorce legioiuuvu, am w wuu- hold Its publication unless It was found necessary to bring the packers to terms, the overwhelming current ' BSill 1 tl 'TP1 ''TOW YARDS AT KANSAS CITT. MISSOURI. of aroused public Indignation will likely force Its publication. Indeed the amount of damaging and disgust ing details which are being made known day after day In the dally press, from Information given by various people prho are in a posltlca to know the facts, would seem to In dicate that but little additional dam age to anybody could be accomplished through the publication of the report GOVERNMENT HOLDS TRUMP CARDS. Commenting on the question of the constitutionality of the amendment If It should become a law, In that it in terferes with state rights, a prominent Government official remarked that In any event the packers eould be forced to terms. They are very anxious over their great foreign meat trade and this Is largely dependent upon Govern ment Inspection of carcasses. Abroad the Government inspection tag is looked upon as a guarantee, and with out It foreign meat trade would suffer Inestimably. Should the packers re fuse to allow the Government to In spect food for home consumption, the Government could In its turn refuse to Inspect meats for export NEILL REPORT PUBLISHED. After some consideration of the wis dom of publishing tbe Nelll report and yielding to the public clamor of all sections of the country for a knowl edge of its contents, tbe President sent a message to Congress transmit ting it for tbe consideration of tbe national legislature. The story as told by the Nelll report shows revolt ing conditions in a number of the packing houses and In many cases upholds all of the stories told In the Sinclair novel The Nelll committee did not consider affidavits of wit nesses to any great extent in arriv ing at is conclusions, but paid more attention rather to conditions as wit nessed by the three members of the committee. The message of President Roosevelt that submitted the report characterized the conditions found by the investigators as "revolting" and urged Immediate legislation "in the Interests of health and decency." He not only recommends the passage of the so-called Beverldge amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill but threatens to destroy the foreign busi ness of the packers should congress fail to provide for federal inspection of meats at all stages of preparation. In the event of such failure, the Presi dent says that he will be "compelled to order that inspection labels and certificates on canned products shall BEEF AND MUTTON COOLING BOOMS AT CHICAGO PACKING HOUSES. not be used hereafter." Without these labels the products will be excluded from European markets. . One on the Professor. Prof. Barrett Wendell, of Harvard, lightened with an anecdote an English lecture. "There was a certain Instructor," be n M "whA waa iIwiti trnnraralnfi tin- on nig students the need of perspicuity, ..A young man cme to him one day t0 get Dack an that had been submitted. "'A very good essay,' said the In structor, as he returned the paper, 'but Mr. Smith, yon should : Hte al- ' - . ' ' , - J -' -v'r 't ..." ways so that tbe most Ignorant per son can understand every word yon sav." . The . young man looked up anx iously. "'What part of my essay was not cleat to you, professor r he asked," CAUSED PACKERS' PLIGHT. Interview with Author of the Now Famous "Jungle "-Expose of Meat Packing; Methods. Upton Sinclair, the author of the "Jungle" which has in reality started the entire packing bouse scandal. Is an advocate of municipal slaughter houses. He believes that this is the only effective solution of the problem, although he says tha' the Beverldge amendment Is good so far as it goes. Interviewed recently, he said, "There is ne doubt that this amendment will become a law; but a few months after Its enactment It will be forgotten and former conditions wiy be resumed. I say former conditions, because the Chicago packers , have cleaned up house and are now able to make a show of virtue which they never pos sessed, but It is Impossible for tbem to conceal the fact thai : iey have sent out millions of cans of 'potted chicken' made of bob, or day-old veal, millions of cans of roast beef made of cow udders and gristle, and that all this vast output has been treated with chemicals to conceal putrefaction and to preserve the stuff sold under a false name. GOVERNMENT SLAUGHTER HOUSES IN EUROPE. "Every slaughter house In England, Germany, and Belgium Is owned by the government There Is no chance to graft because tbe slaughter of cat tle and tbe sale of meat is distinct and separate. The government kills for anybody, and charges so much a head. Twelve samples are cut from each animal and subjected to a microscopic examination. If the meat is unhealtb ful it is condemned and destroyed. The slaughter houses are as cleanly as modern hospitals, and not to be com pared in any way with the filthy shambles we endure here. ANSWERING A HOWL. "As an additional precaution against graft it is provided that the loss In cident to condemnation shall fall on the breeder or seller of the cattle and not to the buyer. This compels the cattle breeder to care for his stock In a' scientific and sanitary manner. That answers the violent protests of the Western cattlemen, who were forced by the beef trust to Inundate President Roosevelt with telegrams of objection to the Beverldge bill, until it was discovered that the making pub lic of the Reynolds-Nelll report would work more damage to tbe business of canning dyed bob veal and selling It as chicken. 'The opposition to the bill was not because the packers feared it would Interfere with their fraudulent prac tices, but because it would Impose up on them a tax of $2,000,000 a year, to pay for the inspection, which is noth ing more or less than advertisement for their bogus goods in foreign countries. MR. SINCLAIR'S SOLUTION. "Every city In the United States should have municipal slaughter houses. All private slaughter houses should be abolished. The result of such a condition would be to break the power of the packers' trust They would have to sell out at cost tbe slaughter houses fit for the killing of food animals, and destroy those that are unfit That is the only solution of the problem, which is now recognized as of huge Importance to the people of this country, and the only way that public opinion can be enlightened Is to permit the commissioners appointed by l.-esluent Roosevelt to make pub lic the full story of the horrors they found In the head center of the great depot of reception and distribution In Chicago. "The packers know that their very life depends upon the approval of foreign nations, and they know that the stamp of governmental approval abroad Is 'regarded as tbe hall mark of excellence. They know that the millions In Europe understand official Indorsement to be an absolute and unassailable guarantee and they re gard official indorsement by agents of the United States government in the same light and with the same con fidence." POINTS OP BEVERIDGE MEAT INSPECTION BILL. Provides for rigid postmortem In spection of all cattle, swine, sheep. and goats killed for human consump tion. All meats found healthful shall be tagged, and all meat found un healtbful shall be destroyed. All slaughterers and packers and all others engaged In preparation of meat products must admit Inspectors to all parts of their establishments. All canning, rendering, salting, and packing products are Included, and any products treated with dyes or deleterious chemicals or presevatlves shall be condemned. All establishments must be main tained In a sanitary manner, accord ing to rules and regulations prescribed by tbe Secretary of Agriculture. After January 1, 1007, no railroad or any other common carrier can trans port any meat product not Inspected or passed, and no ship with such articles on board shall be given clear ance papers, nor can any common carrier transport any meat product that Is prepared In an establishment where specified sanitary conditions do not prevail. AU canned, potted, or canvased meat products shall be labeled as In spected and passed and shall not be offered for sale until so labeled, . Signal on Karat UaU-Boxea. The Fourth Assistant Postmaster General has Issneu aa order providing tbnt after July 1 next, rural delivery carriers, when making their trips, will visit and examine only those boxes (or which, they have mail for delivery end those on which the signals are dis played to indicate that there la mall for-dlspatch. Those patrons who are now main' tainlng mall boxes on which there are no signals will be required to procure some sort of device which will serve as a signal to carriers. 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