Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-15
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How do we know that sufficient mr..
cautions arc taken to prevent coutsnI.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen kuov,
They inform us that what goes sn
behind the walls Of their plants n
their own affair; that II, their bssa.
ness; they will manage II a. they ses
ut. Whose affair Is II, then, Il TIE
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned by trichinae, II cancer In.
creascs?
Other countries are not 20 dull n
we nre about these things. Othse
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perlls involved in the meth
ods Of this monopoly, and, therefore,
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the UnlNsA
States Is supposed to keep an insp.stoc
upon meat intended for export and b
place upon 1t an official stamp certify.
Ing tlat It Ii 1T Cor food.
II, then, these are the methods In
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what Do
you suppose arc tho methods about
meat for domestic consumption, oa
which there Is no inspection at alt?
Whywas tho Beef Trust allowed to 70
on year after ycur violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent 1T
Why nre tho laws ipcrt against this
criminal organization? Why Ia q man
sent to prison for Ave years for corE-
Ing a fvc.dollar check and these mea
60 free for swindling a nationi
Why do wc contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
hOartls?
Why arc we content to have our
food prepared for W In secret undee
conditions that to any sane mind CT.
tainly suggest fraud and trcacl,ery3
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
As to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubereu.
losls and the cancer, put a stop 10 prt-
vate slaughterlng. Lot all the slaugh-
tering Of food animals be done By the
state In the light OF day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, ON equal
terms for all. There are very CeW
private slaughter houses In Engiant.
The cities and towns run their slauSh-
ter houses under medical iuspectiou.
But In England the people do not care
to bc poisoned In their meat
And we need not worry about tho %
lection that publicly owned slaushtsr
houses are an invasion Of the private
rights of business. When It comes b
life and death there are no privats
rights Of business. No man has q right
to saved profits that he makes by
spreading disease. We have gone toe
far OH the road to public sanitatiou 10
turn back bcause some gentesnau's
profits are threatened. The State wild
not allow you to 60 around with small
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In y0ur
house. although each may be strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever are
nothing. IL the State can, take radical
measures to stamp out cholera Il caa
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, million times worse thas
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety It can provide slaush-
ter houses for public safety. And it,
duty In the one case is ut least a. clear
us 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:
"2soM cattle, weighing l4s,sss
pounds:
1850 hogs, weighing 40,475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5,O2i pounds.
"lo calves, weighing S55 pounds.
~ sheep, weighing 200 pounds.
"Twenty-one cattle, nine hogs aud
5,O24 pounds cut meats were con-
demned after passlng) government In-
spectlon."
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Health Department Bulletin. Novem.
ber 25, 1905:
condemnation Of unit food during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, 0S,72N
pounds Of cattle, hogs, calves and sheep.
AT retail markets G6,739 pounds Of
beef, ham ana poultry"
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The Reef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
Of experts try to save II.
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Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department, the ma
jnrity of the deaths In Chicago .were
among infants. Now, thanks to tho
Beef Trust. the great majority Of ~
people who die are adults, the averan
age Of the deceased having Increass1
from infancy in 1875 to 81 yssss =
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