A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS 



ists, at the Instigation of the commission, of both 

 fresh and canned beef, and the reports throughout 

 specified that no trace of preservatives was dis- 

 covered. 



From the foregoing It will be seen that whatever 

 overtures were made to use preservatives in fresh 

 meats were made by the inventors of a process direct 

 to the Government, which, had they been adopted, 

 would have been a contract between the inventors 

 and the Government to treat meats received in nor- 

 mal condition from the packers, and In which the 

 packers had no Interest or part. The public, how- 

 ever, picking up the first sensational headlines read- 

 ing "embalmed beef" jumped to the conclusion that 

 it was packer doings, and it stuck for years, although 

 In the Investigation the embalmed beef charge was 

 passed quickly, and everything centered upon the 

 "canned roast beef scandal." Before going into that 

 I should like to devote a minute to publicity, and 

 how it came about. 



While I was at Tampa the journalistic world was 

 marking time. I do not suppose that a greater 

 aggregation has ever been together since that time 

 until the Paris treaty meet. Among them was one 

 Whelphly, who later sprang the Interview with Gen. 

 Miles, In which the embalmed beef charge was made. 

 Whelphly had been a staff writer on The Kansas 

 City Star, and I had often come in contact with him 

 in connection with Armour publicity, due to my fol- 



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