Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-27

says the board has 10 right to pass
on slaughtered animals. but must con.
fine Its inspection to live stock. The
opinion advises the board that II
would have no standing rs party to
suit to enjOin the Chicago health de.
partment from condemning carcnsscs
passed by the State ana government
inspectors. This opinion" said Sec
rotary Pritchari Of the health depart.
mcnt. 'strengthcns the city's claims
to he supreme In the inspection of
meat"
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Many Of the Beef Trust employees
wear rubber gloves while handling
the cadnvers. Otherwise they are IN
imminent danger of blood poisoning.
Even the embalming Of food for the
guliiblc public has Its attendant dan.
gers.
The number OF dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold as food II something awful.
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Numbers Of hogs die In the ears In
transit to the Beef Trust: their bodies
are often eaten by the other hogs and
their pet disease transmitted by them
to the human race.
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Tho government inspectors IL they
work every minute Of their time. can
give but ten seconds to each animal In.
spectcd. No wonder cancer, lupus,
tuberculosis ana like ailments are
spreading.
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The Beef Trust has ruined many a
prosperous small business. The hide
industry, the boot and shoe trade, the
sheepskin tanners, the leather tanners
the wool pullers, the wool trade, the
vegetable market, the poultry busi
ness, the retail meat markets, thu
Wholesale meat markets, the sOaI
tradc-all these and many more have
been swallowed up by this awfu
levInthan. How much longer Will thu
people stand II?
How much longer will the American
people put up with diseased food!
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\ correspondent asks: How man!
of the representatives Of foreign gov
crnments are In the pay Of the Bee
Trust? 1t might interest the peOpl
OF some Of them to find out"
People out OF town and newsdealer
In other cities ordering extra cOple
of the Chicago Eagle Beef Trust cd
lions must place their orders befOr
| Wednesday Of each week.
The demand for papers Ia SO grea
that unless orders for them are place
early 1t will be impossible to MI a
OF them rs promptly as we wOul
wish.
Dealers In Germany, France an
Great Britain must inclOsc pOstag
with their orders.
People who think that they get goo
meat are invited to read the follow
ing clipped from the live stock repo
of the Chicago Daily News, Januar
o, 1906:
equality Of offerings was not goo
1t was such as the trade'usually loOl
for on Tuesday, with the WiscOnsi
shipments largely predominating.
. was not the absence of good finisht
stun that made the slow market, hoy
ever, as the buyers We're general
looking for lOw.prlced cattle. Shl
pers had only few orders at mos
and the great percentage Of the
were for plain finished cattle. Sin,
the ending of the western season the
has generally been as good II demaI
for the cOmmOner sorts of cattle
for the better priced steers. 4 fe
toppy kinds have reached $G.25 tn
week, but they are as scarce as Il
proverbial hens teeth.'
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We do not see any quotations
the dailies on trichina hogs.
The public officials who are CO..
trolled by the Beef Trust will be know
before long.
All the rotten old Beef Trust lObb,
lists. consisting of crooked lawyer
castOif politicians ana scarecrOw state
men, are getting ready. But when Il