Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-08

dressed meat were condemned after
having been passed by the government
inspectors. or where the government In.
spectors had no Jurisdiction"
The murder OF the people still goes
on.
II the Beef Trust II 40 immaculate
why Is 1t that packers forming one sec.
ton OF 1t pleaded guilty In I'ennsyl.
vania to the charge Of selling impure
products and were fined: that another
set Of packers belonging to It are now
under indictment In Lexington, Ken.
lucky. for the same offcnsc; that the
Pure Food Commissioner OF North Da.
kota. In his report, openly names sew.
cral Chicago packers, and tells how
they adulterated food?
&SA
The Trust press of Chicago carefully
eliminates from the reports of the Chi.
cago Health Department which II pub.
fishes, all reference to the condemna.
ton Of tubercular ana cancerous
cattle ut the Union Stock Yards. The
aim Of the Trust press Is to keen the
people In ignorance Of true. but awful,
conditions which menace their health.
The lee! Trust mas caused n big
raise In the price OF shoes. The nj.
legged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market. which Con.
gress closed practically for the benefit
of the beef trust by clapplng a duty OF
ID per cent al valorem on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust, accord.
Ing to Associated Press dispatches,
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust fixes
now the cost of the leather. the raw
material out OF which shoes are made,
and hence II controls both the prices
OF shoes In the domestic market AMI
In the export shoe trade, built up ar
great expense by our shoe manufac.
turers.
Furthermore, II Is common knowl.
edge that the domestic price Of butter,
eggs. butterine. dressed poultry, the
grains, fruits, vegetables, apples. pota.
toes and probably other foods Is reyu-
lated largely by the same trust of cor.
pOratiOns.
This Is logical and unavoidable ut
present. 1t Is due In part to special
privileges Of lower rates In the ship.
ping. private refrigerator lines, i'm.
mense grain elevators aud cOld.storage
plants scattered at the strategic points
and In part, 10 doubt, to the sheer
brutal force OF unlimited millions OF
dollars; Il power welded by a few per-
sons whom society does not hold per-
sonally responsible at present.
\SA
One of the most cunning ana des-
perate deeds of the Beef Trust was
the defeat, by Beef Trust methods, Of
the attempt of the secretary of agrl-
culture to secure 13j additional meat
inspectors for Chicago. The secretary
asked for $l35,OOO to pay for 135 in.
spectors to inspect meats going to Eu-
rope-nOt meats for Americans, for
anything Is good enough for us. The
Congressional Committee, possibly I'M
der Beef Trust hypnotic influence only
appropriated $4,000. So the Euro
peans are in almost as great danger as
ourselves.
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Thanks to the Beef Trust methods,
cancer numbered l,l0l victims in Chi
cago in 1908. or 81 more than In 1904
An increase of the rate per 10000 OF
population Of 203 per cent.
The Increase In deaths from cancer
in Chicago in 1908 over the average
for the decade ended In 1904 was 1O.l
per cent, ana over the average rate OF
thu lac0da anIad In 1874 vwus o. 4 M.