Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-29
4 Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for tho Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty Of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How do We know that su6lcient ore.
cautions arc taken to prevent contemi.
nation2
How do the trust gentlemen know
They inform us that what eose a
behind the walls Of their plants b
their own affair; that Ia, their bod.
ness: they will manage Il % they 80
IT. Whose affair IL Il, then, n the
nation cats diseased meat, II W are
poisoned BY trichinae, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not 10 dull %
we nrc about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll The
monstrous perlls involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly. and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the Unitsd
States Ii supposed to keep IN inspector
upon meat intended for export and b
place upon It an Official stump certify.
Ing that II In fit Tor food.
II. then, these are tho methods IN
regard to export beef. about which
there IL nominal inspection. what Do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, On
which there Ii no inspection at aiif
whywas the Beef Trust allowed 10 20
on year after year violating the Law
and no attempt made to prevent ~
Why are the laws ipert against this
criminal Organisationf Why 10 Q man
sent to prison for I've years for foeg.
Ing q 6vc-d0llar check and thsss men
60 free for swindlins q nationi
Why do We contribute our dollarD
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are We content 70 have our
food prepared for ~ In secrst under
conditions that to any sans mind CT.
tainly suggest fraud and trsachsry3
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. Ths
remedies are simple enough.
Az to the "lumpy jaw" the tubercu.
losIs and the cancer. put stop to pri.
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugh.
terlng Of food animals be done BY the
Statc In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, ON equal
terms for all. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities aud towns run their slaugh.
ter houses under medical inspection.
But In England the people do not care.
to bo poisoned In their meat
And we need not worry about tine oh.
lection TINT publicly owned siaushtse
houses are an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When Il comes %
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has q right
10 saved profits that he makes b.
spreading disease. We have gone TOO
fur on the r0ad to public sanitation 10
turn back because some eentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State will
not allow you to 20 around with small.
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 sse
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 Gun provide pest houses
for public safety II can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case Ii ut least al clear
a. In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin. Dec.
%, 1905:
"At the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned and de-
stroyed:
"asOA cattle. weighing l4s,s24
pounds:
1850 hogs. weighing 4O.475 pounds.
"cut meats weighing 5.O2a pounds.
"l5 calves. weighing s55 pounds.
~ sheep, weighing 200 pounds.
"rwenty.One cattle, nine hogs and
5,024 pounds cut meats were CON.
demned after OassInO government 10.
spection."
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Health Department Bulletin. Novem.
ber 20. 1905:
"CondemnatiOns Of unit food durlns
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards. 68,70S
pounds Of cattle, hogs, calves and sheep.
AT retail markets GG,730 pounds Of
beef, ham and poultry"
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The Beef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press ana 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
Reef Trust. the great majority OF ~
Esnple who die are adults. the averap
age OF the deceased having Increased
from infancy In 1875 to 81 years =
l000i