Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-23
It Has Been wased Hard in Con.
gress for the Past Seventeen
Years
And the Result Is a Bill that
Pleases the Beef Trust All
Alone.

The Beef Trust Is oil powerful d
Congress.
Seventeen years ago the first pure
food bill was introduced In the Sen.
ute, and 1t has been debated on and
on ever since"
With this introduction Henry
Beach Needlam tells In Worlds
Work the amazing story Of the delays
ID the pure food bin In the United
States Senate as an illustration Of oh.
structive methods.
It will enable the millions Of con.
s,tmers Of food to understand why
the United States II the only civil.
lied country which does not possess u
national food law. It will enable
them to appreciate the difficulties
which now confront the Hepburn bill
during the present scssion Of the
United States Senate the only meas.
ure. according to the best authorities,
that there Is any hope Of passing.
EVERY American workman" says
Mr.. Neeiham. 1T 10 fair to assume
Ii interested vitality In securing for his
family what he earns by the sweat Of
his brow-pure food and pure drugs
"Whcn one phys for wholesome ar.
ticles he does not care to receive bud
coffee, glucose syrupss coal tar jcllies.
spurious wliskeys. adulterated drugs
and imitation havoring extracts. One
does not want Goldfish sausnges or
green hams, smoke cured all pre-.
served with boraclc acid; New Or.
lenns molasscs' or honey composed
largely Of glucose; olive oil. In reality
cotton seed oil; pure raspberry jelly
from glucose mixed with
cltric ncld and coal tar dye.
III the State cannot protect the In.
against such swindling-and
the state commissions confess. their
Impotence naturally looks to the
Federal government for protection and
to his representative In Congress to
provide statutory means for such pro.
lection. How has the welfare. the
health. and longevity Of the $4,000. 900
been conserved by Cop.
grcss?"
The Beef Trust ID making q hard
light at Washington against pure food
law.
The following Is from q Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, Feb.
}, 1900:
Recently this opposition has taken
m extremely dangerous turn. The peo.
pie who are behind II realize that there
Il n general demand throughout the
country for national legislation on this
subject. They do not dare to fight II
outright, therefore. and no they are
their attention In an effort tn
icstrOy the value Of the law when It Il
and to make It dlfiicult II not
Of execution.
"rhere IRE now on the statute hooks
II many States, particularly In the
north, laws which II enacted would 90
I long ways toward disnoslng Of the
impure food products which are now
iOoding the markets Of tive country to
! notorious degree. In Illinois, for In
stance. there Ii a law which. II hon
'stly executed. would put an end TO the
'ast amount Of frauds practiced upon
Ile people. The law. however, 10 tn q
arge extent dead letter and the I'LL.
,Ois food commissioner Ia said to have
DecOn'e IN offensive partisan In the
movement to break down national legls-
atiOn on this subject. Honest advo-
sates here Of pure food law are a..
lOnished that Gov. Deneen should per.
nit any Illinois official to take a stand
IN public which manifestly is In Opposi.
ion to the best interests Of nlne-tenths
II the people OF the State of Illinois.
"rhe anti.pure food lobby here In
which has Its headquar.
Iers ut the Willard Hotel. and which
apparently Is supplied with an unllmit-
III amount of money. seems to have
come to the conclusion that some kind
II pure food law IL inevitable at this
session Of Congress. They are there
Tore bending all their energies to break
Town or minimize the effect Of such a
aw when passed"
49,
Remembering that 1t was always the
habit to use the carcases OF cancerOus
Dr. lumpy- jawed cattle after the can.
,ers were cut out. the public II prob.
ably getting q fuller dose Of lumpy
|awed cattle for food than ever. On
the very day that the city discontinued
It's Inspection and condemnation, the
Commissioner OF Health of Chicago IL.
sued the following remarkable instruc.
lions In bis bulletin of December 80,
1905:
"rhe Commissioner has issued the
following instructions to the chief In.
'pector ut the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actinomycosis Ii usually
confined to the head. and may be said
N one sense to be q localized disease,
md while some inspectors condemn
,nly the part involved, ! believe II Ia
latest and most practicable to Condemn
he entire carcass wherever the actl.
lOmycOtlc abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part Of
he digestive or respiratory tract; o.
when the iymphatic glands are invol, i
Vi or where there are actinomvcotic