Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-27
Il Aims at the Lives, the Health and
the Pockets Of Chicago
Citizens.
Frightful Food Thrown Into This
CITY While the Government In.
spectors Sit Supinely BY.

What kind of government inspection
have we been getting of late in the
matter of beef. pork and other food
products?
What sinister influence Is ut work to
poison the people of Chicago in the in
tercst of corporate monopoly?
II 1t is the Beef Trust. the people
should drive it out of the State!
In one year the people Of Chicago
would have served on their tables
1.l41.3lG pounds Of diseased meats.
fish. poultry and vegetables II 1t were
not for the activity of the city health
inspectors.
According to the report Of DR..
Charles J. whalen. Health Commits
sioner. the government inspectors have
been derelict in their work and for
years Chicago markets have been vend.
ing stun that Is unfit to eat.
In one week. ending Nov. 1S. this
is what the city inspectors condemned
and destroyed:
Two hundred and eleven cattle. o..
$50 pounds; I'll hogs, 1?6,G62 pounds;
forty sheep. 1.41O pounds: three calves.
$50 pounds: fourteen quarters Of beef.
6.3SS pounds; total weight, $1,000
pounds.
Condemned and destroyed after pass.
ing government inspections: Fourteen
quarters OF beef. 6.3SS pounds; four
cattle. 1.i0I pounds; total weight, 1855
pounds.
Inspectors in the "loop district con.
demned and destroyed 1850 pounds
Of meats. fish, fruits and vegetables.
Three lots of hams and bacon.
weighing 3,625 pounds. were condemn.
ell by the inspector ut the wholesale
markets before 8 o'clock a. m. This
material had been sent to Chicago
from st. Louis and Omaha, having
been rejected there.
Suit has been entered against eight
markets for violating of the ordinance
which forbids the hanging or exposing
Of dressed meats on the street.
DR.. Whalen sums up the results
achieved by his department from the
time city inspection was resumed al
follows:
Since Aug. : the weekly condemna.
tons OF unfit food have averaged 1871.
800 pounds OF meats, fish. poultry, ETC..
and 3.1O0 pounds Of fruit and vege'
tables. which. II maintained for the
year. would make an aggregate OF
7.141.3l6 pounds Of meat. etc., and Of
1901 200 pounds Of fruits and vege
tables condemned and destroyed as un
at for human food.
The principal causes Of meat con
demnation were tuberculosis, ''lumpy
Jaw" hog cholera, immaturity, and
cancellation; OF Ash, "taint" and stale
ness, and Of fruit and vegetables, rot
tenness.
Under date Of Nov. II the chief mea
inspector at the Union stock yards re
ports to the director Of the laborator!
that las result OF the activity Of tn
city meat inspectors In condemnine
tanking, and destroying emaciated AM
tuberculosis cattle In the coolers
after they had been passed by the gov
eminent inspectors, the packers are ad
vising shippers not to send such an
mails into this market.
Inc cOuUeIlueu loou nus pech touu
not only In the stock yards, but In pr
vate markets and the big cold.storag
warehouses. It has been found in traI
sit from other big meat packing Gel
tcrs and In rare instances already pr
pared for the table.
DR.. Whalen says the city has a bi
problem to crush out this immoral an
xoa M md ha will pasnrt
every legal resource to bring his cr'
SADIE to a successful end.
The beef trust Is aiming to contr'
the next legislature.
OF what use Is the Illinois Pul
Food Law, when millions of chicken
turkeys and geese are kept In CO.
storage within the State for year
with their entrails undrawn? The'
Beef Trust delicacies are said to
responsible for much sickness and to
rlble disease.
The price of shoes j. going NJ |
order OF the Beef Trust, 1t has 90
IIcrel the hide market.
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Do not vote for any man for Il
legislature who Is not known TO
an enemy OF the Beef Trust.
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How many Congressman have v
who are not controlled by the Be
Trust:
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The Beef Trust owned Legislatu
Of Illinois passed a law limiting Il
liability OF any corporation taking
human life 10 5000. And the Peep
sit supine and permit this sort
thing.
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The Beef Trust lobby would loo
well in the hands Of mob.
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The Beef Trust has raised the prit
OF shoes by raising the price of hide