Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-10
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 do we know that sufficient ore.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know
They inform us that what gocs On
behind tho walls Of their plants %
their own affair; that Is, their busl.
ness; they will manage It AZ they -
fit. Whose affair is II, then, II tho
nation eats diseased meat, II We aro
poisoned by trlchinae, II cancer In
creases?
Other countries are not 10 doll q
we are about these things. Othee
countries understand very we'll The
inonstrous perils involved In the meth
DDS Of this monopoly, and, therefore,
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the Unihsd
States Is supposed to keep an inspsctoe
upon meat intended for export and b
place upon It an official stamp certify.
Ing that It Is fit Tor food.
II, then, these IRE the methods In
regard to export beef. about which
there Is nominal inspection, what do
you suppose arc the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there is no inspection ut ALI
Whywas the Beef Trust allowed to 20
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent It?
Why IRE the laws ipert against this
criminal organization? Why Ii q man
sent to prison for five years for forg.
Ing flvedollar check and these men
go free for swindlIng natlon3
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content to have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind CO.
tainly suggest fraud and treachery3
We IRE not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. Ths
remedies arc simple enough.
As to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu-
losls and the cancer, put stop to pr.
vate Strengthening. Let all the slaugh-
terlng Of food animals DO done by The
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for all. There are 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.
1
And we need not worry about the Oh.
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses IRE an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When II comes b
life ana death there are no private
to saved profits that he makes By
spreading disease. We have gone too
fur on the road to public sanitation b
turn back because some gentlemau'a
profits IRE threatened. The State will
not allow you to 20 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, althoOh each may be strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger. smallpox ana 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 III
duty In the one case IL ut least az clear
us In the other.
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%, 1905:
AT the Union Stock Yards the fol-
lowing have been condemned and de-
strOyed:
"2sOh cattle. weighing l4s.s2a
pounds:
1850 hogs, weighing 4O,475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5,O24 pounds.
40 calves, weighing S55 pounds.
~ sheep, weighing 2GO pounds.
"Twenty-one cattle, nine hogs and
5,O24 pounds cut meats were con-
demned after passing) government In.
spectlOn."
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Health Department Bulletin, Novens.
Der %, 1905:
"Condemnations of unfit food during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards. 08.78O
pounds OF cattle, hogs, calves and sheen.
AT retail markets 60,730 pounds OF
beef. ham and poultry"
49,
The Beef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press ana fake committees composed
Of experts try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago, according to The
Chicago Health Department, the ma
jority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to Tho
Beef Trust, the great majority Of ~
Easple who die are adults, the avera0o
age Of the deceased having Increase