Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-22

scores Of printed copies Of the bill are
says that 1.-THE inspectors at the Union
stockyards condemned and destroyed
total Of 15l,138 pounds Of UNIT
meats"
Oh, yes the Beef Trust IL being per.
secuted: 15l.138 pounds Of rotten. dis.
eased meat condemned In one week by
mere handful Of inspectors. How
much diseased meat gets out Of the
yards the Lord only knows!
Hut II 15l.130 pounds Of diseased
meat 10 condemned by few inspectors.
the reader can eaaily Imagine bow much
unit food IL placed on the market.
Secretary Wilson says that the gov.
criimcnt will enforce the meat BILL In
Its entirety.
Now that may he all right In its way.
but the fact remains that government
inspection has been failure In the
past.
And the only relief that the public
can hope for II rigid investigation by
the Illinois Legislature.
The Legislature must investigate this
awful trust. for the health Of the Ieo'
p,c Of Chicago, Illinois and the whole
country IL ut stake.
The eyes OF the whole country will
be turned on the Illinois Legislators
and II they fall to do their duty In
protecting the lives Of the nation they
will he branded as towards.
The Illinois Legislature must do III
duty and stop the worst menace to oul
public health that We have got.
The Reef Trust can now laugh Mt thu
law. but there IL a day Of reckoning
coming.
The Illinois Legislature has a dut!
10 perform. and It must do II.
The Beef Trust must DO stopped!
II the Reef Trust Ia 40 immaculat
why Is 1t that packers forming one see
. ton Of 1t pleaded guilty In Pennsyl
vania to the charge OF selling immr
products and were fined; that anothe
+, set Of packers belonging to 1t are nov
under indictment In Lexington, Kei
!, lucky, for the same offcnse; that IN
, Pure Food Commissioner OF North pa
; kota, In his report. openly names sew
oral Chicago packers, and tells ho'
they adulterated food?
&eNA
How many murders Ia the Zee
l In
many innocent people are killed ever
year by tuberculosis and cancer!
Remembering that It was always tn
habit to use the carcases OF cameron
or lumpy jawed cattle after the cal
GERS were cut out, the public Ia prof.
ably getting a fuller dose Of lump
jawed cattle for food than ever. q
the very day that the city discontinue
its inspection and condemnation, I'll
Commissioner OF Health Of Chicago I
sued the following remarkable instru
tions In his bulletin Of December 3
1905:
"The Commissioner has Issued Il
following instructions to the chief !
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
awhile ..tinomyc0sls Ia usual
confined to the head, and may he sa
In one sense to be q localized diseas
and while some inspectors conden
only the part involved. I believe 1t
safest and most practicable to condsn
the entire carcass wherever the ac
nomycOtic abscess opens into &
mouth. pharynx, larynx or any part
the digestive or respiratory tract;
: when the Emphatic glands are invol
ed; or where there are actinomycol
tumors In the lungs; or when the
sions have become generaiised, sin
generalization In actinOmyc0sis appea
to run q very atypic course. maxi
the detection of all fOci Inside {
muscle very difiicult; therefore. the
tire carcass 10 to be condemned.
"In cases whore the actinomyco
lesions are positively localized, the
fsctsd part may be cut away and
remains Of the carcass used.
".Thsse instructions apply only
l"lumpy jaw" There may be 9th