Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-24
A Prominent Chicago Physician, Addressing
the Chicago Medical Society, Arraigns
Stock Yards Conditions.
He Predicts an Upheaval Among
the People Unless Things
Change.

legged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market, which Con.
gress closed practically for the benefit
of the beef trust by clapping duty Of
ID per cent nd valorem on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust, accord.
Ing to Associated Press dispatches,
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust fixes/
now the cost Of the leather, the raw
material out Of which shoes are made
and hence II controls both the prices
Of shoes In the domestic market and
In the export shoe trade. built up Mt
great expense by our shoe nanufac.
turers.
Furthermore, It Is common knowl.
edge that the domestic price Of butter,
eggs. buttcrlnc, dressed poultry, the
grains, fruits, vegetables, apples. pota.
toes and probably other foods Is rcgu.
lated largely by the same trust of cor.
porations.
This Is logical and unavoidable mt
present. 1t Is due in part 10 special
privileges of lower rates In the ship.
ping. private refrigerator lines. i'm.
mensc grain elevators and cold.storage
plants scattered at the strategic points
and IN part, 10 doubt. 10 the sheer
brutal force of unlimited millions of
dollars: a power welded by a few per.
sons whom society does not hold per.
sonally responsible at present.
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Thanks TO the Beef Trust methods,
cancer numbered 1,1Oi victims IN Chi.
cago In 1905. or % more than In 1904
I'M Increase Of tho rate rcr 10000 Of
population OF DOB per cent.
The increase In deaths from cancer
in Chicago In 1905 over the average
for the decade ended In 1904 was 1O.1
per cent. and over the average rate Of
the decade ended In 1881 was 3i.1 per
cent!
Ono Of the most cunning and dcs.
peratc deeds Of the Beef Trust was
the defcat, by Beef Trust methods, Of
the attempt Of the secretary OF agrl.
culture to secure 1876 additional meat
inspectors for Chicago. The secretary
asked for Si35,OOO To pay for 1876 In
spcctors TO inspect meats going to Eu-
rOpe-not meats for Americans, foun
anything IL good enough for us. TIN
Congressional Committee, possibly uu(
der Beef Trust hypnotic influence, on
appropriated $4,000. so the Fur
pcans arc In almost as great danger
ourselves.
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