Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-04
THE BEEF TRUST IS BOSS.

charged the Harrison administration
with trucking to?
Is there any one 20 base that he
would sacrifice the work Of honest
health inspectors and imperil the lives
Of every man, woman and child In
Chicago to oblige some political
friends?
Or are there deeper reasons?
Speak out, somebody, for hell IL not
hot enough to roast a man who would
bow to the Beef Trust In q matter Of
tuberculosis and cancer.
The Reef Trust slaughter houses are
like morgues. The Beef Trust mag.
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In magazine articles. OF course these
slaughter Joints are clearly. They
have to be. They are sanitary in near.
" every respect. The only unsani.
tary things about the Trust slaughter
houses are the cancerous cattle, the
tuberculosis cows and the trichlna
hogs. The surroundings have to be
kept cleanly. like oil buildings devot.
ed to tho care Of cadavers. Even the
embalmed beef turned out by the
Trust Is sanitary-from an embalmer's
standpoint.
What object can the members of tho
Beef Trust have In opposing the I'LL.
nois pure food laws and wanting them
amended?
The Beef Trust saturates Chicago
with stenches from ito rendering es.
Establishments and glue factories. II
robs the people Of Chicago through Ito
control Of the price Of the food they
eat and the leather they wear.
The Beef Trust 10 arranging to con.
troll the next Illinois Legislature abso
lutely.
The Beef Trust counts on q solid
legislative delegation from Cook Coun.
~ which will favor monopoly and en-.
courage high prices.
~
What other political associations b.
sides the Harrison Democracy does
the Beef Trust own In Chicago3
~
The following products were export.
ed from the United States to the cOun'
tries named In 1904. A large per-
centage Of them contained tubercul0'
sis and. cancer a. they were taken
from the insides Of cattle and there
fore NEVER examined for tubercul0
sis, cancer or any other disease:
Sausage Castings. TallOw
Grit Britain, value $a2l, l02 $1.707. ~
Germany, value -. O23,OO0 813,051
France, value. S4,33O 4@,614
Netherlands, value. 50O.4OO 14002l
Russia, value. 3O,505 51,6Oe
The American people must put an
end to the Beef Trust or suffer the
consequences Of bad food.
How many lumpy.jaw cattle are
slaughtered by the Beef Trust every
day and fed to the people2
The Eagle feels highly, compliment
ed over the way its reading matter Il
stolen and reprinted without credit
But II feels sorry that the able editOrl
who steal 1t cannot give It a wide
circulation than they do. A. the Eagl'
reaches its readers at least twenty
four hours earlier than the principa
purloiners, the thefts are easily recog
Missed.
The Beef Trust counts upon slectini
a majority Of the Illinois delegation Il
Congress next year.
Hogs that 60 to England and thu
United States are not examined To-
trichina. All hogs for Germany
France and Austria are. Some escape
though.
The Beef Trust will get its desert
before many years roll by. The Trus
press cannot hide the truth from tn
people. Little by little they will leari
the facts. and when they do wais up
you will hear On explosion.
Why IL Illinoia Afraid to tackle tn
Beef Trust1