Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-28
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 no tne trust gentlemen knOwI
Here Is a stream of the most terrible
infection passing daily within a few
Inches Of the nations food supply.
How do we know that sufficient pre-
cautions arc taken to prevent c0ntaml.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen knowf
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that Is, their busi.
ness they will manage It as they see
ft. Whose affair Is it, then, IL the
nation eats diseased meat, II we are
poisoned by trlchinae, IL cancer in
creases?
Other countries arc not 80 dull 40
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perils involved In the meth
DDS Of this monopoly, and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
10 quiet their objections the United
States Is supposed to keep an insps:toe
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon 1t an official stamp certify.
Ing that 1t Is At for food.
II, then, these are the methods in
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, ON
which there Is no inspection at all7
whywas the Beef Trust allowed to 50
on year after year violating the law
ana no attempt made to prevent It?
Why nre the laws ipcrt against this
criminal organization? Why Is man
sent to prison for five years for forg-
Ing n fivc.dollar check and these men
go free for swindling n nation?
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why nre we content to have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind cer-
taInly suggest fraud and trcachery?
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies IRE simple enough.
As to the ''lumpy Jaw" the tubercu-
losis and the cancer, put stop to pri.
vatc slaughterlng. Let oil the slaugh-
tcring Of food animals be done by the
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for all. There arc very few
private slaughter houses In England.
The cities and towns run their slaugh.
ter houses under medical inspection.
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat.
And we need not worry about tho OBJ
lection that publicly owned slaughter.
houses are nm invasion Of the private
rights of business. When 1t comes to
life and death there are no private
rights of business. No man has q right
to saved profits that he makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on tho road to public sanitation to
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
profits IRE threatened. The State will
not allow you to 60 around with small
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, although each may DO strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera II can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, a million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And It's
duty In the one case Is ut least as clear
as In the other.
Thanks to the Beef Trust methods.
cancer numbered 1,101 victims In Chi
cago In 1905. or o. more than In 1904
I'm increase of the ratio per 10000 Of
population Of 2.03 per cent.
The increase In deaths from cancer
In Chicago In 1905 over the average
for the decade ended In 1904 was IO.l
per cent, and over the average rate OF
the decade ended In 1884 was 34.l per
cent!
One Of the most cunning and 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 135 additional meat
inspectors for Chicago. The secretary
asked for $l35,O0O to pay for 1876 In
srectors to inspect meats going to Eu-
rope-nOt meats for Americans, for
anything Is good enough for us. The
Congressional Committee, possibly un-
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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The pure food laws will, of course,
he enforced against some poor little
grocer. But against the Bee: Trust,
never!
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The Beef Trust Is sending money into
Germany to stir up strife and force
the government to permit the importa-
tiOn of its meats.
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II Mayor Dunne's administration de-
stroyed over 100000 pounds of can
cerous and tuberculous meat In live
months, by the inspection work OF
only eleven inspectors, how many bill
lions of pounds Of cancer aud tuber-