Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-17

Ou SluuSuteTcu uulIIluIs, Uut uust COu-
fine its inspection to live stock. The
opinion advises the board that II
would have no standing as party to a
suit to cnjoln the Chicago health de-
partment from condemning carcasses
passed by the State and government
inspectors. "This opinion" said Sec.
rotary Pritchard of the health depart.
ment, strengthens the city's claims
to be supreme In the inspection Of
meat"
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Many Of the Beef Trust employees
wear rubber gloves while handling
the cadavers. Otherwise they are IN
imminent danger Of blood poisoning.
Even the embalming Of food for the
gulliblc public has Its attendant dan.
gers.
The number OF dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold as food Is something awful.
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Numbers Of hogs die In the cars In
transit to the Beef Trust; their bodies
arc often eaten by the other hogs and
their pet disease transmitted by them
to the human race.
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The government inspectors II they
work every minute Of their time. can
give but ton seconds to each animal In.
spected. No wonder cancer, lupus.
tuberculosis ana like ailments arc
spreading.
The Beef Trust has ruined many a
prosperous small business. The hide
industry, the boot and shoe trade, the
sheepskln tanners, the leather tanners,
the wool pullers, the wool trade. the
vegetable market, the poultry busl.
ness, the retail meat markets, the
wholesale meat markets, the SOAP
trade-all these and many more have
been swallowed up by this awful
leviathan. How much longer will the
people stand 1t?
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How much longer will tho American
people put up with diseased food?
| \ correspondent asks: How many
Of the representatives of foreign gov
crnments are In the pay Of the Beef
Trust? 1t might interest the people
of some of them to find out"
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People out of town and newsdealeri
In other cities ordering extra coplel
of the Chicago Eagle Beef Trust edl
tiOns must place their orders before
Wednesday of each week.
The demand for papers Is SO grea
that unless orders for them are place,
early 1t will be impossible to I'LL al
Of them rs promptly as we w0ul'
wish.
Dealers In Germany, France an,
Great Britain must inclose postag
with their orders.
People who think that they get goo
meat are invited to read tho follow
ing clipped from the live stock repo,
of the Chicago Daily News, Januar
o, 1906:
Equality of offerings was not gO0(
1t was such as the trade usually lOOl;
for on Tuesday, with the WiscOnsi
shipments largely predomlnating.
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stuff that made the slow market, how
ever, as the buyers We're general
looking for low-priced cattle. Shll
pers had only a few orders at mos
ana the great percentage of thel
We're for plain finished cattle, Sine
the ending of the western season thel
has generally been as good deman
for the commOner sorts OF cattle {
for the better priced steers. A 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 dailles on trlchina hogs.
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The public officials who are col
trolled by the Beef Trust will be know
before long.
All the rotten old Beef Trust lobb!
lists, consisting of crooked lawyer
castoff politicians and scarecrow state
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