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‘Use everything… “except the squeal” ’

This quote, I think shows the motivation and reason why Davidson and Lytle wrote this article. This quote shows the meat packers disregard for the public’s health. Using everything but the squeal means that they used every single piece of the pig. This is disgusting because there are parts of a pig that shouldn’t be used for consumption by humans. I think the quote showcases just how bad the meat packing industry was and how badly reform was needed. Armour and Swift, in my opinion and were sadistic comics because there isn’t anything funny, to me at least, in saying that they used every single square inch of the pig. Even though I’m not a swine expert, I’m pretty sure the pig, just like any other animal, has some parts of their body that are not fit for human consumption. Most of the reformers, though, were not focused on just the issue of the Meat Packing industry. The reformers, thought wanting to make conditions in the meat packing industry better, were focused on the big picture, the sanitation conditions. The bigger picture was what everyone was fighting for.

“And historians, for their part, must trace a path through the congressional maze in order to see what compromises and deals shaped the final bill. The legislative process is so constituted that willful minorities can sometimes thwart the will of determined majorities”.

This quote, which I feel is their thesis, shows how historians must trace the history of an occurrence to figure out how a bill is shaped and passed. This whole article shows how reformed wanted change, but had to fight for it. This article was excellently written to show how the United States government works and this quote summarizes the article perfectly. In the United States, bills cannot be signed into laws just because the president, Theodore Roosevelt, wants them to. The president, just like Wadsworth and Lormier has to abide by the same rules that fall under the legislative process. The minorities in the quote, talks about were the few people, such and Wadsworth and Lormier who supported the meat packing industry and claimed that nothing was wrong with it. The majority (ies), obviously the president, are portrayed as they are in the legal system: people who have the take the same steps as the minorities do. The president is not necessarily going to get a bill passed just because he is the president. The job of the historian is to look back into records and see who wanted to make changes to what and if those changes were accepted or turned down by the opposing party or even their own sometimes. Another job is to look at what the bill first began as and see how it is shaped at the end and determine where the changes occurred and why.