Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-17
tuberculosis. Cancer Combine Does as It
P|eases in the Matter Of
Peoples Food.
Milk Fed Chickens Is q Good Name
for Immature Canned
Veal.

"Aiilk. fed chickens" would be a good
name IL applied to calves. canned AMI
sold to the public as pure article Of
poultry.
Immature veal, bad meat. slices
from Gamers and tid-bits from dead
pork IRE nicely fixed up in the Trust
laboratories with chemicals that give
them "the natural flavor" and are
then canned and sold to the public as
chicken, turkey, geese. ducks ana
game Of various kinds.
The Beef Trust employs an army
of chemists whose main duty Is to sup.
ply the proper taste, smell and mp
pearance to the misbranded products.
No attention whatever Is paid to
the effect Of this kind Of food on the
public health.
The representatives Of the Beef
Trust have been In Washington for
months lighting the passage Of pure
food bill which will prohibit this
frightful fraud in the misbranding Of
food.
Tho following telegram from its
Washington correspondent, "Ray.
mond," was printed ON the first page
Of the Chicago Tribune Jan. ~. 1905:
"senator McCumber the other day
Raye to the Senate q hint as to the
reason for this opposition by the
packing house people. He quoted a
report from the food commissioner Of
his own State. North Dakota. which
hit the packers between the eyes. and
which apparently explains why they
have been opposing tho pure food bill
10 vigorously.
'This North Dakota commissioners
had the indelicacy to make Il special
examination Of all the alleged pottcd
chicken and potted turkey he could
ind. 1t was all put up In cans and
nll came from outside States In orig
inal packages, 80 1t was clearly IN
article Of interstate commerce and rs
such could be regulated only by the
federal government. This North Da-
k0ta commissioners went through can
after can and could not find the slight.
est trace either Of chicken or turkey.
"Furthermore, 1t was put up by
packing establishments which have no
facilities for killing fowls and which
do not provide them. Tho cans, how.
ever, were labeled 'pOtted chicken and
'potted turkey and this thing the
pure food bill proposes to stop.
Everybody knows this potted tur.
key and chicken and the various kinds
Of soups prepared by the packing
houses are the product Of beef cattle.
hogs and sheep.
III tho pure food bill is passed.
however, a packing house which put
up can OF dcsiccated pig and labeled
II 'potted turkey would be subject
to civil and criminal prosecution.
One Of the principal aims Of the pure
food bill In to prevent the misbrand.
sing Of all food products, and It Is this
section which 10 ar0using the strong.
est opposition.
'The evidence given before the
Senate and House committees last
year all goes to show that tho crime
Of adulterati0n and gross deceit Of
misbranding and Misrepresentation
has become more widespread In this
country than the public generally has
any idea Of. Tho packers ara not the
only people who deceive the public
by their labels. In almost every line
Of food and drink products which are
put up under special trade marks there
Ia more or less deceit. Some things
are adulterated In q way to be harm.
full. Others are adulterated but are
harmless. The pure food bill, II pass
ed and properly executed, would
stamp out the harmful authorizations
entirely, but would permit the harm.
less authorizations to 90 SO long as
there was no deception. 1t would pre-
vent the use Of c0lOring matter for the
express purpose Of deceiving, and II
would put an end to the lying labels
like those on the potted chicken Of the
packing trust.
Zone of the strongest arguments re-
Gently submitted In behalf Of the pure
food bill was by Senator McCumber.
who pointed out that the American
people to-day, according to the best
estimates of the Department of Agri-
culture, are paying annually about So
OOO,OOO.OOO for adulterated and mis-.
branded articles. This ia about three
times the national debt of the United
States, and this enormous sum, every
dollar of it, Is contributed by people
who believe they are getting some
thing they do not receive. II the pure
food bill was passed they would spend
about the same amount of money. of
course, but they would get what they
are expecting to buy, ana this Is the
whole object Of the legislation now
pending In the House and Senate"
People who eat freely OF prepared or
canned food consume at least forty
doses of poison a day. according to the