Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-26
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that 1t Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

Here Is stream of the most terrible
infection passing daily within n few
inches of the nations food supply.
How do we know that sufficient pre.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen knowf
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that Is, their busi.
ness; they will manage 1t as they sec
flt. Whose affair Is 1t, then, II the
nation cats diseased meat, IL we are
poisoned by trlchinae, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries IRE not SO dull AZ
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very well the
monstrous perils involved In the meth.
ods Of this monopoly. and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats,
TO quiet their objections the United
States Is supposed to keep nm insp,:tor
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon 1t nn official stamp certify.
ing that 1t Is ut for 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 IL no inspection ut all?
whywa the Beef Trust allowed to so
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent It?
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organization? Why IL q man
sent to prison for five years for forg-
ing a nvc.tlollar check and these men
go free for swindling nation?
| Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content to have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind Ger.
tainly suggest fraud and treachery?
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies nrc simple enough.
As to the 'lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losls and the cancer, put stop to pri.
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugh.
tcrlng Of food animals be done by the
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, Oh equal
terms for all. There arc very few
private slaughter houses In England.
Tho 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 slaughter
houses arc an Invasion Of the private
rights of business. When 1t comes to
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has right
to saved profits that he makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
far OH tho roud to public sanitation to
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
profits arc threatened. The State will
not allow you to 60 around with small.
poy or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, although each may be 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 It Gun
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, a million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And it's
duty In tho one case Is ut least us clear
rs In the other.
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Thanks to tho Beef Trust methods.
cancer numbered l,101 victims In Chi.
cngo In 1905, or o. more than In 1904
AN Increase Of tho rate Per 10000 Of
population OF 2.03 per cent.
The increase In deaths from cancer
In Chicago In 1905 over the average
for the decade ended In 1904 was 1O.1
per cent, and over the average rate of
the decade ended In 1854 was 34.l per
cent!
One Of the most cunning and des-
perate deeds Of the Beef Trust was
the defeat, by Beef Trust methods, Of
the attempt Of the secretary of agri.
culture to secure 135 additional meat
inspectors for Chicago. The secretary
asked for $l35,OOO to pay for 135 in
spectors to inspect meats going to Eu-
rOpe--not meats for Americans, for
anything Is good enough for us. The
Congressional Committee, possibly un-
der Beef Trust hypnotic influence only
appropriated $4,000. So the Euro
peans are in almost as great danger rs
ourselves.
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The pure food laws Will, OF course,
be enforced against some poor little
grocer. But against the Bee; Trust,
never!
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The Beef Trust Is sending money into
Germany to stir up strife and force
the government to permit the importa'
} tlon of its meats.
S
II Mayor Dunne's administration de-
stroyed over 3,00O,000 pounds of cam
cerous and tuberculOus meat In five
months, by the inspection work OF
only eleven inspectors, how many Bill
lions of pounds of cancer and tubef'
culosls We're fed to the people during
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