Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-03
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.

How do we know that sufficient pre.
cautions arc taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen knowS
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 II as they 80
flt. Whose affair is II, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II we are
poisoned by trlchlnae, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not 40 dull %
we nre about these things. Other
countries understand very well the
nonstrous perils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats,
TO quiet their objections the United
States Is supposed to keep an insp.ctoe
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon It an official stamp certify.
Ing that II is fit tor food.
1f, then, these nrc 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 ut allf
Why ywas the Beef Trust allowed to 20
on year nfter year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent III
Why are the laws iuert against this
criminal organization2 Why Ii q man
sent to prison for Ave years for forg.
Ing Avc-dOllar check and these men
20 free for swindling nationf
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
lioartls9
Why are we content to have our
food prepared for u In secret under
conditions TINT to any sane mind cor.
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryf
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
As to the ''lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis and the cancer, put stop to pri.
vate slaughtcring. Let all the slaugh.
tering 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 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.
And we need not worry about the OBJ.
lection that publicly owned slaushtse
houses are an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When It comes to
life and death there are no private
rights of business. No man hsa right
to saved profits that he makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back because some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State will
not allow you to 70 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, although each may bs 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 Il can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, q million times w0rse than
cholera. II It can provide pest houses
for public safety It can provide slaush.
ter houses for public safety. Aud its
duty In the one case 10 at least % clear
a. In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%. 1905:
AT the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned and de-
strOyed:
"2sOA cattle. weighing l4s.S2a
pounds:
1850 hogs, weighing 4O.475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5.O24 pounds.
40 calves. weighing S55 pounds.
~ sheep, weighing 260 pounds.
"rwenty-One cattle, nine hogs and
5,O24 pounds cut meats were con-
demned after passing) government iu.
spectlon."
Health Department Bulletin, Novem-
ber %, 1906:
CONCENTRATIONS or undt food during
the week:
"At the Union Stock Yards. 8S,79S
pounds of cattle, hogs, calves and sheep.
AT retail markets 68,730 pounds Of
beef, ham and poultry"
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The Reef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press aud fake committees composed
Of experts" try to save It
Thirty years ago. according to tho
Chicago Health Department, the ma.
tority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority OF the
es.ple who die are adults, the average
age OF the deceased having Increase
from infancy In 1875 to 81 years u
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