Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07
THE BEEF TRUST 10 BOSS.

charged the Harrison administration
with trucking TOT
Is. there any one 10 base that he
would sacrifice the work Of honest
health inspectors and imperil the lives
Of every man, woman and child In
Chicago to oblige some political
| friends?
Or are there deeper reasons?
Speak out, somebody, for hell 10 not
hot enough to roast a man who would
bow to the Beef Trust In q matter Of
tuberculosis and cancer.
The Beef Trust slaughter houses are
like morgues. The Beef Trust mag.
mites love to praise their cleanliness
In magnsine articles. OF course these
slaughter Joints are cleanly. They
have to be. They are sanitary in near.
" every respect The only unsani.
tary things about the Trust slaughter
houses are the cancerous cattle, the
Tuberculosis cows and the trlchina
hogs. The surroundings have to be
kept cleanly. like all buildings devot.
ed to the care Of cadavers. Even the
embalmed beef turned out BY the
Trust 10 sanitary-from an embaimers
standpoint.
What object can the members OF tho
Beef Trust have In opposing the iii.
nols pure food laws and wanting them
amended?
Tho Beef Trust saturates Chicago
with stenches from it, rendering On.
Establishments and glue factories. Il
robs the people Of Chicago through it,
control Of the price Of the food they
eat and the leather they wear.
The Beef Trust 10 arransinR TO con.
troll the next Illinois Legislature abso
lutely.
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The Beef Trust counts on q solid
legislative delegation from Cook Coun.
~ which will favor monopoly and on.
courage high prices.
What other political associations be.
sides the Harrison Democracy does
the Beef Trust own In Chicago1
The following products were export.
ed from the United States to the coun.
tries named In 1904. A large per.
centage OF them contained tuberculo.
sis AMI cancer as they were taken
from the insides OF cattle and there.
fore NEVER examined for thberculo.
sis, cancer or any other disease:
Sausage Castings. Tallow.
GRIT Britain. value S32l. lO2 q, 707, 204
Germany, value 80. 023,OO8 8l3.651
France. value. ..... 1S4,338 463,5l4
Netherlands. value. 58O.4OO 146,02l
Russia, value. ..... 3O,505 6l,5OS
The American people must put an
end to the Beef Trust or suffer the
consequences Of bad food.
How many lumpy,jaw cattle are
slaughtered by the Beef Trust every
day and fed to the people?
The Eagle feels highly compliment.
cd over the way it's reading matter IL
stolen and reprinted without credit.
But 1t feels sorry that the able editors
who steal 1t cannot give 1t q wider
circulation than they do. AZ the Eagle
reaches its readers at least twenty.
four hours earlier than the principal
purloinsrs. the thefts are easily rscog.
nized.
The Beef Trust counts upon electiug
q majority Of the Illinois delegatiou to
Congress next year.
Hogs that 70 to England and the
United States are not examined for
trichina. All hogs for Germany,
France and Austria are. Some escape.
though.
The Beef Trust will get ito deserts
before many years roll by. The Trust
press cannot hide the truth from the
people. Little by little they will learn
the facts. and when they do wats up,
you will hear IN explosion.
Why II Illinois Afraid to tackle the |