Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-29
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 pre-
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation2
How do the trust gentlemen knowf
They inform us that what sues On
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that u, their busi.
ness: they will manage Il a. they 80
ut. Whose affair Ii Il, then, if the
nation cats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned BY trichinae. IL cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not % dull -
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the Unltsd
States is supposed to keep an inspsstor
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon II an official stamp certify.
Ing that II Is 1T Tor food.
II, 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 ls no inspection at alia
whywas the Beef Trust allowed to 20
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent itr
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organization? Why Ia man
scnt to prison for flve yeaN for fOrg.
Ing a five.dollar check and these men
60 free for swindling a nationf
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 TINT to any sane mind Ger.
tainly suggest fraud and treachory?
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
As to the "lumpy Jaw" the tuhercu.
losis and the cancer, put stop to pri.
vate slaughtering. Let all the siaugh.
tering Of food animals be done by the
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, On equal
terms for oil. 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 are an invasion Of the private
rights Of buainesa When II comes to
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man haa 4 right
10 saved profits that hs makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
far ON the road to public sanitation to
turn back because some gentlemaus
profits are threatened. The STATE will
not allow you to 60 around with ANAL.
pox 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 Il can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, q million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slaugh-
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case is at least IN clear
40 In the other.
Health Department Bulletin. Dec.
%; 1905:
AT the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned aud de-
str0yed:
"ssOA cattle. weighing l4s,se4
pounds:
1860 hogs. weighing 40.475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 6.O24 pounds.
'15 calves, weighing 855 pounds.
~ sheep. weighing 200 pounds
"Twenty-one cattle. nine hogs and
5.024 pounds cut meats were con.
demned after (passinO government In.
; spection."
Health Department Bulletin. Novsm.
ber Is, 1906:
"Condemnations Of unfit food during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, o.. 793
pounds Of cattle, hogs. calves and sl,sep.
AT retail markets 08,7S0 pounds Of
beef, ham and poultry"
; The Reef Trust will he stopped no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
, Of experts" try to save 1t.
~
, Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department the ma.
jOrity Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority OF the
people who die are adults, the average
, age of the deceased having Increased
from infancy In 1875 to 81 years Ia
1908!