Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-25
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 sufficient nr>.
cautions arc taken to prevent coutsupa.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen kuov,
They inform us that what soes a
behind the walls of their plants h
their own affair; that IL, their busa.
ness; they will manage It AZ they 80
ht Whose affair Ii II, then, n IL
nation eats diseased meat, II 10 sro
poisoned by trlchinae, if cancer n.
creases?
Other countries are not % dull -
we are about these thines. Othee
countries understand very we'll IL
monstrous pcrils involved In the meth
ods Of this monopoly, and, therefore.
try to exclude American meats,
TO quiet their objections the Unit,a
States is supposed to keep an inspsseoe
upon meat intended for export and b
place upon It an official stamp certify.
Ing that 1t Is flt Tor food.
II. then, these IRE the methods n
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what -
you suppose IRE the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, o.
which there Is no inspection ut allf
Whywas the Beef Trust allowed to %
on year after year violating the law
and NO attempt made to prevent ~
Why IRE the Mws lpcrt against this
criminal organization? Why ID q man
sent to prison for five years for fors-
Ing a Hvc.dollar check and these men
20 free for swindling a nation3
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessasy
lioarls2
Why are we content to have or
food prepared for 10 In secrst under
conditions that to any sane mind c..
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryf
We are not obliged to have there
things II we do not want them. TIE
remedies are simple enough.
As to the 'lumpy Jaw" the tubcrcu-
losis and the cancer. put stop to pr
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugh-
tering Of food animals be done By tho
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for all. There are very lev
private slaughter houses In England
Tho cities and towns run their siaugh-
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 ob.
lection that publicly owned slaushtse
houses are IN invasion OF the private
rights Of business. When It comes .
life and death there arc no privste
rights Of business. No man has righe
10 saved profits that he makes hy
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on the road to public sanitation b
turn back bcause some gentlema~'s
profits IRE threatened. The Stata VIII
not allow you to 60 around with small
p0x or to conceal scarlet fever in your
house. although each may be strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever arc
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera lt can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, million times worse than
cholera. II It can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slaush-
tor houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case is ut least a. clear
| as In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin, Dee.
%, 1905:
"At the Union Stock Yards the fol-
lowing have been condemned aud de-
stroyed:
''2sOA cattle. weighing l4s,soa
pounds:
1850 hogs, weighing 4O.475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5.O24 pouuds.
10 calves, weighing S55 pounds,
~ sheep, weighing 200 pounds,
"rwenty-one cattle, nine hogs and
5,024 pounds cut meats were CON.
demned after Dassing) government In.
| spection."
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Health Department Bulletin, Novem.
ber %, 1905:
"Condemnatlons Of unit food during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards. 68,703
pounds Of cattle, hogs, calves and sheep
AT retail markets 08.739 pounds Of
beef, ham and poultry"
The Beef Trust will he stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
OF experts" try to save It.
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Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department, the ma-
jority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to tho
Reef Trust, the great majority OF tts
people who die are adults, the averaos
age OF the deceased having Increase
from infancy In 1879 to 81 ysass u
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