Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — MORTON DEFENDS PACKERS. [ARTICLE]

MORTON DEFENDS PACKERS.

Denies the Statement That Inferior Meats Come from Chicago. Absolute denial is given by the agricultural department to the report from Germany that Chicago packers buy the most inferior qualities of beef for canning and packing purposes. The statement was made in a German journal, which asserted that, owing to the poor quality of the beef, it was injurious and wrong to sell it in Germany. Secretary Morton said, concerning the story. “Personally, with a veterinary inspector, I have several times passed through the larger beef-canning establishments in Chicago. My visits to those establishments were always unheralded, and therefore there were no special preparation* made for a general viewing of their premises and their methods of slaughtering, cooking and canning beef." From those thorough, official investigations I am justified in denying as wholly untrue all that is asserted in that statement in regard to American canned meats.”