New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-17
THE MURDER OF THE IsNocENrs.

Ifsw milk factories had existed in Judea in the
DAYS of Hersd that pOtentate would have been spared
the trouble of sending armed the country to
murder the children, and his fame mi ght have come
down to these times rcdolent of the odor of
sanctity instead of reeking with infamy. Had
he operated in legal manner, as our mod
ern poisoners do, his evil design would have
come quite as near success and Rachel would as GER
tapy have mourned her Children though without heap
ing curses upon the head of the Tetrarch. The bills
of mortality in this city present uniform report
from week to week. of sixty per cent. of the whole
sumber Of deaths as occurring among very young
children and about fifty per cent under the age oftwo
years-the mark fixed by Herod for bis slaughter
1t were preposterous to assert that this excessive in
fantle mortality is natural necessary 1t arises
from many different causes all at time other
under human control, and all the result of ignorance
carelessness, or wful wickedhess. OF the varied
we propose at present to advert to single one
the use Of poison sold Throughout the city under
the rame of milk.
At the foot of the Tenth avenue there exists great
dstillery OF itself an intolerable nuisance but so
strongly intrenched by the wealth and influence of
its proprieters that all efforts to break it up have
failed. 1t has been presented by the Grand Jury we
believe more than once but no law has been found
strong enough TO put stop to it, probably because
Of the magnitude of the nuisance, as the man who
robs by millions is likely to go unpunished, while the
ragged pferer of dollar gets his full allowance of
Justice. But it is not in its immediate filth aud
stencil that this distlery is most perncious. Its ul
innate effect the substance it produces and sends all
over the City in the form of poisoned milk, is curse
of much more fearful nature.
We have heretofore described the premises the
stables, cows milk and other matters thereabout;
but official report just made to the Health Officer
by the Sanitary Inspector, which we print in another
column, is worthy of attention, not much for new
facts for recalling those heretofore set forth in
Grand Jury presentments and Police Reports. The
Inspector found in three Of stables reaching
from TeUth 10 Eleventhavs., more than fifteen hun
ired cows, each one tied in stall but three fee.
wide, surrounded with filth, painting for air. and
nearly all of them in advanced stages OF disease.
These cows are fed exclusively on warm
swill. made for the purpose in the dis
tillery The Inspector says the stencil in
which the live was so potent that his assistants
were forced TO quit the stables for time in order to
recover from its sickening effects These poor, dis
eased animals are MIXED twice day, and the nasty
LIQUID that comes from them is doctored with chalk,
burnt sugar and other drugs until it has the appear
snce OF good milk and is then put into wagons labeled
"Westchester County Milk. " Pure Country Milk "
and other lying devices and sold throughout the City
OF course the greater portion of it goes to the poer
classes, those who through ignorance or inability
not be sure of getting real milk and put up with any
white liquid that may be offered SUCH And il is
from these classes that the of infant mortality
returned The cows in these stables are owned by
hundred or more different men the owners of the
distiery receiving for stable-room and swi nine
cents per day for each COW.
We take it that no stronger evidence of the respect
of our people fer law can be required than the simple
fact that with full knowledge of the above facts,
they have neither burned the distlery nor the
stables nor lynched single one of the heartess
lures engaged in this Wholesale destruction of chill
| dren. No words of condemnation are equal to the
enormity of their ofense If they were 20 distribute
through the town solution of prussic acid for CrctOn