AMERICAN METHODS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8200, 2 August 1906, Page 6

AMERICAN METHODS.

WHAT ENGLISH TANNERS SAY. Apropos of the meal; trade scandals in America the Obau Times (Scotland) remarks:— President Roosevelt has sent an important message to Congress accompanying the preliminary report of the special investigators appointed by him to inquire into the American meat trade soandals', which reveals, says a Washington telegram, nauseating conditions in the stockyards and packing houses of Chicago. Mr Roosevelt says: "TJ'e conditions shown are revolting, and it is imperative in the interests of health and decency that they should be radically changed. It is impossible to secure satisfactory results under the existing law. The roport shows that the packing-houses are not koot clean, and the method of handling and preparing food products is uncleanly and dangerous to health. Striking support of stareling disclosures comes f:om English tnrmors, who buy hides from the Cliicugo stockyards. Many of the skins, they say, show unmistakable proofs that the animals from which thoy wore taken suffered from bor* riblo diseases. HOW DISEASED PORK IS DISGUISED. Pigs are very liable to tuberoulos' is. and in view of this it is required by Buglish law that the' pleura—which is the membrane surrounding the luugs, and which immediately shows to the eye of the expert whether the pig is diseased—shall not be stripped from the carcase.'

NotwithstKud'ng this regulation the Americans send a lot of meat with the pleura stripped to this J country. The bones are also removed." The detection of disease thus becomes) impossible, and there can be no doubt that large quantities of diseased pjrk are thus foisted oo English consumers. The list of supsected articles increases daily. With one exception the beef millionaires now living are °elf-made meu. John, Michael, aud Patrick Cudahy are brothers whose parents emigrated from Ireland to tho United Stales whan John, the eldest, was six yeHia of ag*, and Patriok was only ttueo months. Nelson Morris was boru in Germany. He emigrated at the ug* of twelve, and landed ia America without capital or friends. At tho age of eighteen he started a packing business on his own account, aud is now the millionaire head of the firm of Nelson Morris and 00. Mr J. Ogden Armour, who is worth £8,000,000, is the son oi the founder of the world famous business. Ho was educated at Yale University, tut before he finished his course, bis father called him back to Chicago to relieve him of some of his business caros. The following are the firms mentioned in the revelations: Armour aud Co. Tho Swift Company. Tho Oudahy Company—"Rex" L'abel. Nelson, Morris and Co.—trading as Fairbank Canning Company. Wilson Packing Company, and New York and Chicago Packing Company. it 3a an ascertained fact that a few years ago, when England was importing cattle from Argentina, th« United States beef interests deliberately introduced foot and mouth diseases among Argentina cattle by ! sending infected cattle to that country. This Beef Trust plot bad, as was j expected, the effect of killing the Argentina live cattle exports to Engi land and improving the trade of the Chicago meat exporters.