Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

would have no standing a. party to
suit to enjoin the Chicago health de.
partment from condemning carcasses
passed by the State and government
inspectors. "Thls opinion" said Sec.
retary Pritchard Of the health depart.
ment, strengthens the city's claims
to be supreme In the inspection Of
meat"
The Beef Trust must 20.
The number of members of the pres.
ent Legislature controlled by the Beef
Trust IL known to q man.
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Remember the Beef Trust when you
are nominating candidates for the
Legislature this year.
49,
The number Of dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold 40 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 Beef Trust has ruined many a
prosperous small business. The hide
industry, the boot and shoe trade, the
sheepskin 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 III
How much longer will the American
people put up with diseased food2
People who think that they get good
meat are invited to read the follow.
Ing clipped from the live stock report
Of the Chicago Daily News. January
0. 1905:
equality Of offerings was not good.
1t was such 40 the trade usually looks
for on Tuesday, with the Wisconsin
shipments largely predominating. II
was not the absence of good finished
stun that made the slow market, how.
ever. as the buyers were generally
looking for low.priced cattle. ship.
pers had only few orders Mt most,
and the great percentage Of them
were for plain finished cattle. Since
the ending Of the western season there
has generally been as good a demand
for the commoner sorts OF cattle as
for the better priced steers. A few
toppy kinds have reached S8.25 this
week. but they are as scarce as the
proverblal hens teeth"
We do not see any quotations In
the dailies on trichina hogs.
All the rotten old Beef Trust lobby.
lists, consisting OF crooked lawyers,
CASTOR politicians and scarecrow states.
sAA ~ getting ready. But when the
Illinois Legislature meets these
WORTHLESS will be pointed out 20 that he
who runs may read.
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People must remember that the city
had only eleven inspectors at work on
cattle, hogs, sheep and provisions.
Necessarily their work must have
been very incomplete when there were
100000 cattle q week to inspect. tn.
berculosis and cancer are bound to be
shipped to all quarters as food.
Beef Trust cold storage 10 a bad
thing. Yet 1t Is popular Just now. The
rotten food turned out In the shape OF
diseased poultry from Beef Trust roosts
Is thus touched upon by Health Com.
Whalen. Of Chicago. In bis
annual report:
Sold storage Is one OF our present
necessities, but II Is evident that II
has been shamefully misused by dis.
honest men. While certain articles
Df food are better after more or less
prolonged storage, certain fruits and
vegetables spoil so soon after removal
from the cold storage as to give a
1ery unfavOrable impression.
again, poultry or game Is often
'tored In an undrawn condition and ID
lfterward sold to the public. Attention