Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10

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on slaughtered animals. but must con.
fine its inspection to live stock. The
opinion advises the board that 1t
would have no standing as party to
suit to enjoin the Chicago health de.
partment from condcmning carcasses
passed by the State and government
inspectors. "rhis opinion" said Sec.
rotary Pritchard Of the health depart.
ment, strengthens the city's claims
to be supreme In the inspection Of
meat"
Many Of the Beef Trust employees
wear rubber gloves while handling
the cadavers. Otherwise they are In
imminent danger Of blood poisoning.
Even the embalmlng Of food for the
gnllible public has Its attendant dan.
gers.
The number Of dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Reef Trust and
sold 90 food 10 something awful.
Numbers Of hogs die In the cars In
transit to the Beef Trust; their bodies
are often eaten by the other hogs and
their pet disease transmitted by them
to the human race.
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The government inspectors II they
work every minute Of their time. can
give but ten seconds to each animal In.
spected. No wonder cancer, lupus.
tuberculosis and like ailments are
spreading.
The Beef Trust has ruined many a
prosperous small business. The hide
industry. the boot and shoe trade. the
sheepskln tanners, the leather tanners,
the wool pullers, the wool trade. the
vegetable market, the poultry busi.
ness, the retail meat markets, the
wholesale meat markets, the soap
trade-all these and many more have
been swallowed up by this awful
leviathan. How much longer will the
people stand It?
~SA
How much longer will the American
people put up with diseased food?
A correspondent asks: "HOw many
Of the representatives Of foreign gov
ernments are In the pay Of the Beef
Trust? 1t might interest the people
Of some Of them to find out"
People out OF town and newsdealers
In other cities ordering extra copies
Of the Chicago Eagle Beef Trust edl
tons must place their orders before
Wednesday OF each week.
The demand for papers Is SO grea
that unless orders for them are PLACED
early 1t will be impossible to I'LL al
Of them rs promptly as we wOult
wish.
Dealers In Germany, France ant
Great Britain must inclOse p0stag,
with their orders.
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| People who think that they get goo,
meat are invited to read the follow
ing clipped from the live stock repOr
of the Chicago Daily News, Januar!
o, 1905:
Quality of offerings was not good
1t was such as the trade usually look
for on Tuesday, with the Wisconsin
shipments largely predominating. ]
was not the absence of good finishes
stun that made the slow market, how
ever, as the buyers were general.
looking for low-priced cattle. Ship
pers had only few orders ut most
and the great percentage of then
were for plain finished cattle. Sine
the ending of the western season Their
has generally been as good a deman,
for the cOmmoner sorts of cattle a.
for the better priced steers. A few
toppy kinds have reached 1925 thl
week, but they are as scarce as tn,
proverbial hens teeth"
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We do not see any quotations II
the dailies on trlchina hogs.
The public officials who are con
trolled by the Beef Trust will be known
before long.
All the rotten old Beef Trust lobby
lists, consisting of crooked lawyers
castOff politicians and scarecr0w states