Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-16
It Has Been wased Hard in Con.
gress for the Past Seventeen
Years
And the Result Is a Bill that
Pleases the Beef Trust All
Alone.

Ie beet lrust il I'LL powerful u
| Congress.
Seventeen years ago the first pure
food bill was introduced In the Sen
ate, and 1t has been debated off and
on ever since"
With this introduction Henry
Beach Necdham tells in Worlds
Work the amazing story of the delays
to the pure food bill In the United
States Senate as an illustration of OBJ
structive methods.
It will enable the millions of con
s,Hners OF food to understand why
the United States II the only civil
lied country which does not possess Il
national food law. 1t will enable
them to appreciate the difficulties
which now confront the Hepburn bill
during the present session Of the
United States Senate the only meas.
ure, according to the best authorities
that there Is any hope Of passing.
EVERY American workman" says
Mr.. Needham. 1T Il fair to assume.
In Interested vitality In securing for his
family whit he earns by the sweat Of
his brow-pure food and pure drugs.
"when one pays for wholesome ar.
ticles he does not care to receive bad
coffee. glucose syrups, coal tar jellles,
spurious whlskeys, adulterated drugs,
ana imitation Havoring extracts. One
does not want Goldfish sausages or
green hams, smoke cured all pre-.
served with boracic acid: New Or.
leans molasses' or honey composed
largely Of glucose; olive oil, In reality
cotton seed Oil; pure raspberry jelly
manufactured from glucose mixed with
citric acid and coal tar dye.
III the State cannot protect the In.
dfvidunl against such ndling-and
the State commissions confess their
iinpotence-Onc naturally looks to the
Federal government for protection and
to Ills representative In Congress to
provide statutory means for such pro.
lection. How has the welfare. the
health, and longevity Of the SO.OOOOOO
Americans been conserved by Con.
grcss?"
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The Beef Trust II making a hard
fight ut Washington against a pure food
law.
Tho following In from Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, Feb.
3, 1909:
"llecently this opposition has taken
an extremely dangerous turn. The peo.
pie who ire behind II realize TINT there
Is general demand throughout the
country fog national legislation on this
subject. They do not dare to fight 1t
outright, therefore, and 20 they IRE
combining their attention In IN effort to
destroy the value Of the law when It II
enacted and to make 1t difficult II not
impossible Of execution.
".rliere are now on the statute books
Of many States, particularly In the
north. laws which II enacted would 20
long ways toward dispOslng Of the
Impure food products which are now
flooding the markets Of the country to
u notorious degree. In Illinois, for In
stance, there IL law which. II HON
estly executed, would put IN end to the
vast amount Of frauds practiced upon
the people. Tho law, however. In to
large extent dead letter ana the iii.
nOis food commissioner Ii said to have
become an offensive partisan In the
movement To break down national legis-
latiOn on this subject. Honest advO-
Gates here Of a pure food law are an.
tonished that Gov. Densen should per.
init any Illinois official to take a stand
In public which manifestly IL In Opposi.
ton to the best interests Of nine enths
Of the people Of the State Of Illinois.
"rhe anti.pure food lobby here In
Washington, which has its headquar-
tiers ut the Willard Hotel, and which
apparently ID supplied with an unllmit-
ell amount Of money, seems to have
come to the conclusion that some kind
Of a pure food law IL inevitable at this
session of Congress. They are there
fore bending al their energies TO break
down or minimize the effect Of such
law when passed"
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Remembering that It was always the
habit to use the carcases Of caucerous
or lumpy jawed cattle after the can.
GERS were cut out. the public II prob.
ably getting Z fuller dose Of lumpy
jawed cattle for food than ever. On
the very day that the city discontinued
its inspection and condemnation, the
Commissioners Of Health Of Chicago 10.
sued the following remarkable instruc.
lions In his bulletin Of December 30.
1905:
"Ths Commissioosr has Issued The
following instructions 10 ths chief IN.
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actinomycosis u usually
confined to the bead, and may be said
In one sense to b q localized disease.
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved. ! believe It 10
safest and most practicable to condemn
the entire carcass wherever the actl.
n0mycotic abscess opens Into the
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part OF
the digestive or respiratory tract; o.
when the Emphatic glands are invok
ed; or where there are electromagnetic