Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-09-06


ment has declared war on the Jews Of
Chicago who are too poor to live in
high.toned districts.
There is to be an era Of Jew-baiting
installed In this city II Harrison's
Health Department, sometimes known
as the Boozers' Union. Is to have its
way.
If the Health Department is to work
In its own sweet will, the homes
of the poor, hard-working Jews in the
Ghetto will be burned to the ground
and the inhabitants Of that distrlc,
will be turned out upon the streets as
homeless waits.
There Is no exaggeration about this
The Eagle does not make the assertion
upon its own knowledge alone. but
upon the authority Of Harrison's
Health Department. The last official
bulletin issued by the department, after
having set forth ut length the spread
Of typhoid fever In the West Side river
wards, especially In the Ghetto dis
trict, and the efforts made by the dc
partment to suppress the disease, con
tains the following:
"But the work the department was
able to do served mainly to show how
futile and inadequate were It's re-
sources. Food, chiefly fruit and vege.
tables, unfit for human consumption,
was condemned and sprinkled with
kerosene. but the department has NO
authority to sprinkle with kerosene 2C
per cent Of dwellings found In these
areas UNIT for human habitation. Mrs
OLeary's cow would be godsend Il
the Ghetto district"
The delicate reference to Mrs
O'Leary's COW" will be easily under
stood by the public and cannot fail 4
be appreciated by the Hebrew resi-
dents Of the West Side wards, particu
larly when 1t is taken in conjunction
with the allusiOn to a desire on tn
part OF the department to sprinkle
the homes Of the Jews Of the Ghett'
"with kerosene"
The Eagle believes 1t Is not an OK
aggeration to say that this Is the mos
barbarous and blgotted official an
nouncement ever made public.
1t bears testimony to the truth OF tn
prevailing opinion In Chicago tO-da,
that the poor and the homes Of tn
poor have very small value In tn
estimation Of the present city admins
tration Of Chicago.
The Jews of Chicago, not only in tn
Ghetto district but all over the city
are furious over the incendiary full
minatiOn of the BOOzers' Union.
Mrs. O'Leary's COW" was the caus
OF the most disastrous cOnfagratiOn II
history.
1t brought ruin, sorrow and sufferin,
to thousands upon thousands Of Chi
cago citizens; the loss Of human lif
which 1t entailed Is unknown and neve
will be until, perhaps, on judgmen
day, the number Of those whom |
sent untimely to the grave shall neve
be told.
And this Is the fate which Harrison
Health Department would have befal
the Jews Of the Ghetto.
As people throughout the city dur
ing the past week discussed the bul
letin Of the Health Department il
which this awful announcement WA
made, they stood aghast and aske,
one another what could Hairison'
Health Department have agains
the Jews? What could the Jews hay
done to excite such fearful hatred
such a feeling as was expressed Il
the implied wish that the homes Of tn
hard working Jews Of the Ghett
might be destroyed by fire.
Mrs. O'Leary's cow" and n plen
tful sprinkling Of kerosene is the bes
that Harrison's administration has il
store for the Jews Of Chicago.
But why;
That Is the question that nobOd,
seems to be able to answer.
The Jews are a hard working people
true many Of them, indeed nearly nj
OF those who reside I'm the district
characterized in the Health Depart
ment bulletin as "West Side rive
wards" are very poor and barely man
age 10 exc out living by hard, unceas
ing toll, but they are honest, they earr
their bread by honest work, and they
are law abiding, good citizens, as &
rule.
Why should their homes be sprinklet
with Kerosene and the torch be theI
applied to them?
Because forsooth the typhoid epidem
ic has, according To the City Health
Department, otherwise known as the
BOozer's Union, found its origin there