Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty Of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How do We know that suflcieut ors.
cautions are taken to prevent contsni.
natlOn3
How do the trust gentlemen knevf
They inform us that what eoes a
behind the walls Of their plants 70
their own affair; that ID, their busi.
ness; they will manage Il % they 80
it. Whose affair 10 Il, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II W afO
poisoned BY trichinae, II cancer IL
creases?
Other countries are not % dull -
NC are about these things. Othse
countries understand very we'll The
monstrous perils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and, therefore,
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the Unitsd
States ls supposed to keep an inspector
upon meat intended for export and -
place upon II an Official stamp certify.
Ing that It Ii fit Tor food.
If, then, these are the methods IN
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what Do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, On
which there is no inspection at allf
Why was the Beef Trust allowed 10 %
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent iti
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organixationi Why 10 . man
sent to prison for Ave years for forg.
Ing Q nve.dollar check and these men
90 free for swindling q nationi
Why do We contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards!
Why are ws content to have our
food prepared for % In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind CT.
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryf
We are not obliged 10 have these
things II We do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
Al to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu-
losis and tho cancer. put stop 10 pri.
vate slaughtering. Let oil the slaugh.
tering Of foOd animals bs done By The
State In the light Of day. without any
Of this dark lantern business. on equal
terms for all. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England.
The cities and towns run their slaugh.
ter houses under medical inspection.
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat
And we need not worry about the OBJ
lection that publicly owned slaughtee
houses are an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When Il comes %
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has right
b saved profits that hs makes By
spreading disease. We have eons ~
far on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back because some gentlemau'a
profits are threatened. The State will
not allow you to 30 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, although each may b strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger, smallpox and scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera Il can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, Q million times worse than
cholera. II It can provide pest houses
for public safety It can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case II at least 90 clear
a. In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
23, 1905:
"At the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned and de-
stroyed:
"asoM cattle. Weighing 14s.s24
pounds:
1855 hogs, weighing 40.475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing b,O24 pounds.
10 calves. weighing 855 pounds.
~ sheep, Weighing 280 pounds.
"Twenty.one cattle, nine hogs and
6.024 pounds cut meats were con,
demned after passing) government In.
spection."
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Health Department Bulletin. Novem-
ber %, 1905:
"Condemnations OF unAt food during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards. 00.780
pounds Of cattle. hogs, calves and sheep
AT retail markets 88.7S8 pounds Of
beet. ham and poultry"
The Beef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press aud fake committees composed
Of "experts" try to save It.
Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department. the ma.
jority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority OF the
6aaple who die are adults. the average
age OF the deceased having increaseA
from infancy In 1875 to 81 years iu
1905!