Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-16

OpluIOn uuV1SeS tne DO0rO tn0t IL
would have no standing as party to
suit to enjoin the Chicago health de.
partment from condemning carcasses
passed by tile State and government
inspectors. "This opinion" said Sec.
rotary Pritchard Of the health depart.
ment. strengthens the city's claims
to be supreme In the inspection Of
meat"
The Beef Trust must 60.
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The number Of members Of the pros.
ent Legislature controlled by the Beef
Trust ID known to man.
Remember the Beef Trust when you
are nominating candidates for the
Legislature this year.
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The number Of dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold 40 food 10 something awful.
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Numbers Of hogs die In the cars In
transit to the Beef Trust; their bodies
are often eaten by the other hogs and
their pet disease transmitted by them
to the human race.
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The Beef Trust has ruined many a
prosperous small business. The hide
industry. the boot and shoe trade, the
sheepskin tanners, the leather tanners,
the wool pullers, the wool trade. the
vegetable market, the poultry bust.
ness. the retail meat markets, the
wholesale meat markets, the soap
trade-all these and many more have
been swallowed up by this awful
leviathan. How much longer will the
people stand It?
How much longer will the American
people put up with diseased food?
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People who think that they get good
meat are invited to read the follow.
Ing clipped from the live stock report
Of the Chicago Daily News. January
D. 1900:
equality Of offerings was not good.
It was such as the trade usually looks
for on Tuesday, with the Wisconsin
shipments largely predomlnatlng. 1t
was not the absence of good finished
stun that made the slow market, how.
ever, as the buyers were generally
looking for low.priced cattle. Ship.
pers had only few orders ut most,
md the great percentage Of them
were for plain finished cattle. Since
the ending Of the western season there
has generally been as good demand
for the cOmmoner sorts OF cattle as
for the better priced steers. A few
toppy kinds have reached 1926 this
week. but they are as scarce 40 the
proverbial hens teeth"
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We do not see any quotations In
the dailies on trichina hogs.
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All the rotten Old Beef Trust lobby.
lists. consisting Of crooked lawyers,
CASTOR politicians and scarscrOw states.
-" - sst'i"g ready. But when the
Illinois Legislature meets these
worthless will be pointed out 70 that he
who runs may read.
People must remember that the city
had only eleven inspectors at work on
cattle, hogs, sheep and provisions.
Necessarily. their work must have
been very incomplete when there were
BOG, 900 cattle a week to inspect. tn.
berculOsis and cancer are bound to be
shipped to all quarters a. food. g.
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Beef Trust cold storage IL a bad
hing. Yet 1t is popular Just now. The
rotten food turned out In the shape OF
diseased poultry from Beef Trust rO0sts
. thus touched upon by Health Com.
missioner Whalsn, Of Chicago, In bis
annual report:
Gold storage 10 one OF our present
necessities, but II IL evident that II
has been shamefully misused by dis.
honest men. While certain articles
II food are better after more or less
prolonged storage, certain fruits and
spoil SO soon after removal
rom the cold storage al to give q
cry unfavOrable impression.
again, poultry or game IL often
tOred In an undrawn condition and 10
Lffnrua rd snld 10 tho n,,blin AA&aaAio.,