Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-03
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that 1t Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

Inc trust slaughter houses are exact'y
such as would allow the meat vi
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out Nv
food.
Suppose that We take Of the matter
the most charitable view possible.
Suppose we assume that the trust gen.
tlcmen are most scrupulOus ABOUT a''
the ways In which they make money.
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
Of gouge a,.a robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator ear lines. the mailip-
ulation Of Il thousand markets Tor
profits. the tribute levied by this COM
bination upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law. breakers and mOncy-mad and as.
sumo that not one of them would
touch n cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question starcs us In the
face: How do we know what becomes
of the "lumpy Jaw" cattle!
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen
tlcmcn. How do we know the ways
In which the money Is made!
How do the trust gentlemen know! /!
Here IL n stream of the most terrible
infection passing daily within II few
inches Of the nations food supply.
How do we know that sufficient pre-
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls of their plants IL
their own affair: that II, their busl.
ness: they will manage It rs they see
flt. Whose affair Is 1t, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat. II we nrc
poisoned by trichinnc, II cancer In.
crcascs?
Other countries are not no dull M
We are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous pcrils involved In the meth
ods Of this monopoly. and. therefore,
try TO exclude American meats,
TO quiet their objections the United
States IL supposed to keep an insp r:to'
upon meat intended for export and Il
place upon 1t an official stamp certify
Ing that It Is lit for food.
have here before INC letters writer
by former employees Of the trust nss'ir
Ing me that the Federal inspection Is
n farce. The inspectors inspect moth
Ing, say these letters. They sit read
Ing or smoking with their pockets full
of tngs, which are handed out as they
are required. One man tells me TIM
he used to get fifty ut u time. reach
Ing his hand into the inspectors
pocket.
| II, then, these arc the methods II
regard to export beef, about whicl
there II nominal inspection. what IL
YOU suppose nrc the methods abOu
meat for domestic consumption. oi
which there IL no inspection mt all?
Why IL the Federal inspection allow
ed to be Indifferent? Well. why IL cv
erythlng about this subject No rotten
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to &
on year after year violating the Inv
and no attempt made to prevent 1t?
Why are the laws inert against till
criminal organization? Why IL II ma
sent to prison for Ave years for forl
ing a fve-dollar check ana these me
60 free for swindling a nation?
Why do we contribute our dollar
year after year to swell unnecessar
LOards?
Why are we content to have on
food prepared for us In secret uMie
conditions that to any sane mind cei
tainly suggest fraud and trcnchery?
We are not obliged to have thes
! things II we do not want them. Th
, remedies are simple enough.
! As to the "lumpy jaw" the tubcrcr
l0sis ana the cancer, put stop to pr
i, vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugl
, tering Of food animals be done by I'll
a State In the light Of day, without an
, of this dark lantern business, Gn equ,
!. terms for all. There are very fe,
private slaughter houses in Englan,
I The cities and towns run their slaugl
: ter houses under medical inspection
a But In England the people do not cai
F.. to he poisoned In their meat.
!, And we need not worry about the ol
h lection that publicly owned slaughtt
o houses are I'm invasion of the privai
!. rights of business. When 1t comes
, life and death there are no privat
rights of business. No man hls n rigl
n to saved profits that he mases |
!, spreading disease. We have gone II
- far on the road to public sanitation
y tNrn back bcause some gentlema,.
t profits are threatened. The State wi
y not allow you to go around with smal
/ poX or to conceal scarlet fever In 20,
. house, although each may be strict
@ your own affair. Compared with ca
@ GER smallpox ana scarlet fever Al
Y nothing. II the State can take radio
: measures to stamp out cholera 1t Gu
J. take radical measures to stamp Ol
t cancer, million times worse thu
! cholera. II 1t can provide pest hous
i for public safety 1t can provide slaug
0 ter houses for public safety. And
duty In the one case IL at least as Gle,
: as In the other.
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I The Beef Trust laughs at pure fox
n laws.