Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30

Congress.
Seventeen years ago the first pure
food bill was introduced In the Sen.
ate, and 1t has been debated Off and
OH ever since"
With this Introduction Henry
Beach Needham tells in Worlds
Work the amazing story Of the delays
n the pure food bill in the United
States Senate as an Illustration Of OBJ.
structive methods.
II will enable the millions of con.
s,Hners Of food to understand why
the United States ts the only civil.
lied country which does not possess a
national food law. It 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.
urc. according to the best authorities,
that there Is any hope Of passing.
Every American workman" says
Mr.. Needham. 1T 10 fair to assume.
IL Interested vitality In securing for his
family what 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 jellies,
spurious whlskeys, adulterated drugs,
and Imitation favoring extracts. One
does not want Goldfish sausages or
green hams, smoke cured all pre-
served with boracic acid: New Or.
leans molasscs' or honey composed
largely Of glucose; olive oil. In reality
cotton seed oil; pure raspberry jelly
manufactured from glucose mixed with
cltric acid and coal tar dye.
III the State cannot protect the In.
dfvidual against such swindling-
the State commissions confess their
Impotence naturally looks to the
Federal government for protection and
to his representative In Congress to
provide statutory means for such pro.
lection. How has the welfare, the
health, and longevity Of the 100000
Americans been conserved by Con.
grcss3"
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The Beef Trust II making n hard
fight ut Washington against pure food
law.
Tho following IL from a Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, Feb.
3, 1900:
Recently this opposition has taken
an extremely dangerous turn. The PEG.
pie who are behind II realize that there
Ii a general demand throughout the
country for national legislation on this
subject. They do not dare to fight II
outright, therefore, and no they are
their attention In an effort to
destroy the value Of the law when It Is
enacted and to make It difficult II not
impossible Of execution.
"There are now on the statute books
Of many States, particularly In the
north, laws which II enacted would 60
a long ways toward disposlng Of the
impure food products which are now
flooding the markets Of the country to
q notorious degree. In Illinois, for In
stance. there II q law which, II hon
estly executed, would pat an end to the
vast amount OF frauds practiced upon
the people. The law, however, 10 to q
large extent dead letter and the iii.
nOis food commissioner Ia said to have
become an offensive partisan In the
movement to break down national legis.
latiOn on this subject. Honest advO-
Gates here Of q pure food law are as
tonished that Gov. Deneen should per.
init any Illinois official 10 take a stand
In public which manifestly Is In Opposi.
tlOn to the best interests Of nine.tenths
Of the people Of the State Of Illinois.
"The anti-pure food hobby here In
Washington, which has Its headquar-
tiers at the Willard Hotel. and which
apparently 10 supplied with an unlimit.
ed amount Of money, seems to have
come to the conclusion that some kind
Of a pure food law is Inevitable at this
session OF Congress. They are there
fore bending all their energies to break
down or minimize the effect of such
law when passed"
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Remembering that 1t was always the
habit to use the carcases Of cancer0us
or lumpy jawed cattle after the can.
GERS were cut out the public IL prob.
ably getting q fuller dose Of lumpy
jawed cattle for food than ever. On
the very day that the city discontinued
it, inspection and condemnation. the
Commissioner Of Health OF Chicago 10.
sued the following remarkable instruc.
lions In his bulletin Of December 80.
1906:
'"rhs Commissioners has issued the
following instructions to the chief In.
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'while actinomycosis IL usually
confined to the head, and may be said
In one sense to be q localized disease.
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved, I believe 1t 10
safest and most practicable to condemn
the entire carcass wherever the actl.
abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part OF
the digestive or respiratory tract; o.
when the lymphatic glands are inv6lS