San Antonio Daily Light

EFFICIENT MUCK RAKING.

Prompt Results That Have Followed Upton Sinclair's Use of the Famous Tool.

The adoption by the senate of the meat inspection bill, inserted as a "rider" on the agricultural appropriation bill by Senator Beveridge of Indiana, was another notable triumph of muck-rakerism. The bill simply provides, in effect, that meat eaten by Americans shall be as carefully inspected as meat intended for export. The poisoning of our own people must stop. Wailing and gnashing of teeth are heard in Armourville.

President Roosevelt got hotly and justly indignant over the tainted-packing-house business. A report of the commissioner of labor and of Mr. James B. Reynolds, an assistant secretary of the treasury, on the infamous conditions of that business has not been printed at this writing. Whether it is or not. the packers are down on their marrow bones. And the man who stirred up the president really caused the report to be made, really made the packers yell for mercy. really had the bill passed providing for the inspection of meat intended for interstate commerce. is a private citizen, a young man and a muck raker named Upton Sinclair. whose true and startling exposure. in this magazine. of the shameful and almost incredible state of things in "Packingtown" our readers vividly remember. "With the Procession." Everybody's Magazine for July.