Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-08
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 ue,.
cnutlons are taken to prevent CONTAINS.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know
They inform us that what Roes a
behind the walls Of their plants n
their own affair; that Is, their buae.
ness they will manage 1t a. ti,ey ~
fit. Whose affair is II, then, n IL
nation cats diseased meat, if ws aro
poisoned by trlchlnac, II cancer n.
creases?
Other countries nre not 40 dull -
we are about these things Othse
countries understand very we'll ths
monstrous perlls involved In the meth
DDS Of this monopoly, and, therefore
try to exclude American meats.
TO quiet their objections the Unitsd
states Is supposed to- keep an inap,stoe
upon meat intended for export and b
place upon It an official stamp certify.
Ing that 1t Is 1T Cor food.
II, then, these are the methods IN
regard to export beef. about which
there Is nominal inspection, what do
you suppose ore the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, ON
which there Is no inspection at aiif
whywas the Beef Trust allowed to 70
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent IT.
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organization? Why Ia q man
sent to prison for five years for forg.
Ing Ave-dollnr check and these men
90 free for swlndling a nationf
Why do We contribute our dollaru
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are We content to have or
food prepared for US In secret undse
conditions that to any sane mind O..
tainly suggest fraud and trcacl,eryf
We are not obliged to have thsao
things II we do not want them. II
remedies are simple enough.
As to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu-
losis and the cancer. put a stop 10 psi-
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugh.
tering Of food animals be done BY tho
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for all. There are very ceV
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaugh-
ter houses under medical inspectioa.
But In England the people do not care
to he poisoned In their meat.
And we need not worry about the ob.
lection that publicly owned slaughtse
houses are an invasion Of tho privats
rights Of business. When 1t comes .
life and death there are NO private
rights Of business. No man has Z righe
to saved profits that he makes hV
spreading disease. We have gone 10
far Oh the road to public sanitation .
turn back bcause some gentlemaua
profits are threatened. The STATE WIN
not allow you to 60 around with small.
pOX or to conceal scarlet fever In youg
house, although each may be strictly
your own affair. Compared with can-
Ger, smallpox aud scarlet fever aso
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera L en-
take radical measures to stamp ~
cancer, q million times worve thaa
cholera. II It can provide pest housss
for public safety II can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And IL
duty In the one case 10 at least - clear
az In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin, De-.
%. 1905:
AT the Union Stock Yards the fsl,
lowing have been condemned and d
stroyed:
"2s0M cattle. weighing lss,sas
pounds:
1850 hogs, Weighing 4O.475 poundsL
"Cut meats weighing 5,O24 pounds.
"15 calves, weighing S55 pounds.
~ sheep, weighing 26O pounds.
"Twenty-one cattle, nine hogs anl
5,024 pounds cut meats were con,
demned after Oassing) government u
spectiOn."
S"sss S$oP"A ssAscssS ASUttCu0e EVOv0p
ber 25, 1906:
"Condemnations Of undt food during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, 6R1se
pounds Of cattle. hogs. calves aud shesN
AT retail markets 80,730 pounds oe
beef, ham ana poultry"
The Reef Trust will be stopped, ~
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees cOmp0ssd
Of experts" try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago, according to th0
Chicago Health Department. the ms
jOrity Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to tAs
Beef Trust, the great majority Of ~
l.-~ple who die are adults. the avsra0
ago of the deceased having lncreasa0
from infancy In 1875 to 81 years =
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