Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-16

What kind of government inspection
nave we been getting of late in the
matter of beef. pork and other food
products?
What sinister influence is at work to
poison the people of Chicago in the in.
tcrcst of corporate monopoly?
II IL is the Beef Trust. the people
should drive IL out of the state.
In one year the people of Chicago
would have served on their tables
7.lil,3lG pounds of diseased meats.
fish. poultry and vegetables If it were
not FOR the activity of the city health
inspectors.
According to the report ot pr.
Charles ]. Whalen. Health Commits.
sioner. the government inspectors have
been dercllct in their work and i3c
years Chicago markets have been vcIt.
ins stuff that Is unfit to eat.
In one week. ending Nov :. this
is what the city inspectors condemned
and destroyed:
Two hundred and eleven cattle. o..
$50 pounds: 81 hogs. 1865. pounds.
forty sheep. 1,iIo pounds:thrce calves.
80 pounds: fourteen quarters Of beef.
G.3SS pounds: total weight. $4,000
pounds.
Condemned and destroyed after pass.
ing government inspections: Fourteen
<,uarters of beef. 6.3ss pounds: four
cattle. 1.i91 pounds; total weight. ',Ss5
pounds.
Inspectors In the 'loop district" con.
demned and destroyed 3l.s5o pounds
of meats. fish. fruits and vegetables.
Three lots of hams and bacon,
weighing 3.623 pounds. We're condemn.
ed by the inspector ut the wholesale
markets before $ o'clock a. IN. This
material had been sent TO Chicago
from st. Louis and Omaha. having
been rejected there.
Suit has been entered against eight
which forblds the hanging or exposing
of dressed meats on the street.
DR.. Whalen sums up the results
achieved by his department from the
time city inspection was resumed as
follows:
tons of unfit food have averaged 1877.
800 pounds OF meats, fish. poultry. etc.
and 23,l0O pounds of fruit and vege.
tables. which. IL maintained for the
year. would make an aggregate OF
1.l4l,3iG pounds Of meat. etc. and OF
l,2oi,o0O pounds of fruits and vege.
tables condemned and destroyed as un.
1T for human food.
The principal causes of meat con.
domination Were tuberculosis. "lumpy
Jaw" hog cholera, immaturlty, and
cancellations: OF fish. faint and stale.
ness, and of fruit and vegetables, rot.
tcnness.
Under date of Nov. II the chief meat
inspector at the Union stock yards re.
ports to the director Of the laboratory
that las a result Of the activity Of the
city meat inspectors In condemnng
tanking, and destroying emaciated and
tuberculosis cattle In the coolers
after they had been passed by the gov,
crnment inspectors, the packers are ad
vlslng shippers not to send such AMI
mails into this market.
The condemned food has been found
not only In the stock yards. but In prl
vate markets and the big cold.storag q
warehouses. 1t has been found in tran
sit from other big meat packing cen
tiers and In rare instances already pre-
pared for the table.
DR.. Whalen says the city has a bi:
problem to crush out this immoral anC
dangerous traffic, and he will resort 4
every legal resource to bring his cru
SADIE to a successful end.
How many Congressman have W,
who are not controlled by the Bee
Trust?
The Beef Trust has raised the pric
of shoes by raising the price of hides
Governor Douglas of Massachusetts
is large manufacturer of shoes. Ill
heads a delegation Of the Boot an,
President to remove the duty on hides
so that they will be cheaper. Thi
country produces more hides than |
needs to shoe its people; but the Bee
Trust controls these hides,
The Beef Trust raises the price o.
hides.
This raises the price of leather, an(
this In turn
Raises the the price Of shoes.
So the Beef Trust Is becoming the
OppressOr Of the poor In the matter OF
food and raiment.
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The Beef Trust lniqulty must cease
To secure more extended food IN,
spcrtiOn for Chicago. six Of the prime
movers Of the Consumers League call,
Ell upon Commissioner Of Health VIA,
len. They offered the services Of Il
corps OF skilled inspectors. Or. VIVA.
inH agreed 10 cooperate with the
league.
While they declare the work they 10
is efficient, the members Of lie league
assert more men are needed
The committee which called on Or.
lFhalcn was composed Of the follow
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