The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-02
Brighter Days fol the American Ho!

Brighter Days for the American Hog.
Hitherto the American hog has
led a checkered and prosecuted life,
and has been greatly interfered with
in working out his high and import
ant destiny. 1t is the old story; a
few individuals of class go wrong,
and the whole class has to suffer for
it. Once in a while an American
hog yields to morbid appetite and
eats rat. The result is that the
pillar of his diaphragm, then his ten
derloin, and then every muscle in his
body becomes filled with trichine.
| His sufferings while alive must be
indescribable, and when he is
slaughtered he communicates the
deadly pest to all his patrons. The
result is that his whole species falls
under ban. For the last ten years,
the American hog has been rudely
excluded from society altogether in
France and Germany, and even
treated with GOODNESS and suspicion
in his own country
But a brighter dav has at last
dawned for him. It never would
have dawned if Cleveland had been
re- elected. But an enlightened Re
publican administration has grappled
with these wrongs Of the hog, and
placed them in course Of rapid re-
dress and extinction. The last Con-
gress passed an admirable meat-in-
spection law; and now every meat
packer who desires it can have Gov
eminent inspectors in his slaughter
house, who will inspect every animal
that is slaughtered there, and put
the Government seal Of approval on
it, if it should be found healthy and
wholesome. The beef of Chicago
has been inspected in this way for
the last month; and to day the long
wished for turn Of the hogs came.
On and after to-day every hog killed
by Armour, Swift and Morris will be
inspected by Government inspectors,
and duly certified to purchasers. A
little piece of the pillar of his dia-
phragm will be cut out, and thirty
bright, new microscopes will be
turned loose on it to hunt for trich
ina. If he turns out to be rat
rat eater, his sins will be on his own
head, and he will be turned into
leaf-lard, for the trichine do not af-
feet the fat. If he passes the test, a
European tour will reward his previ-
Gus good habits.
1t has never been doubted that
France and Germany will give full
faith and credit to the United States
Government meat inspection. But
they will be all the more ready to do
SO in consequence Of recent occur
ance in the vicinity Of Berlin. At
the Eberfeld slaughter house the
other day the authorities found a
dozen hogs that had adopted rats as
steady diet, and were chuck full
of trichine, from their ears to their
tails. The immediate result of the
discovery was a reaction of public
sentiment in favor of the American
! hog. One newspaper says: " What
| ever is charged against the Ameri
can hog, it cannot be said that he
! feeds on rats" That is strictly true.
Once in an age an American hog, il
a moment of observation-disclosures,
may eat a rat, but living on rats,
like those Eberfeld hogs, is unknown
in this country. 1t is, therefore,
doubly. sure that the American hog
has great future before him. He
will soon find his way into the best
circles in France and Germany, and
probably into the Imperial presence
itself, where he honestly belongs.
In the meanwhile let the farmer
tally one for the Republican party.
While the Democrats have been
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