Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-21

Congress.
Seventeen years ago the first pure
food bill was introduced in the Sen.
ute, and 1t has been debated or and
on ever since"
With this introduction Henry
Beach Needham tells In Worlds
Work the amazing story Of the delays
to the pure food bill In the United
States Senate as an illustration Of oh.
structive methods.
1t will enable the millions Of con-
sumers of food to understand why
the United states Is the only civil.
lied country which does not possess
national food law. It will enable
them to appreciate the difficulties
which now confront the Hepburn bill
during the present session Of the
United States Senate, the only meas.
TIRE. according to the best authorities,
that there Is any hope OF passing.
Every American workman" says
Mr.. Needham, 1T Ii fair to assume,
Is Interested vitality In securing for his
family what he earns by the sweat Of
his brow-pure food and pure drugs.
"when one pays for wholesome mr..
ticles he does not care to receive bad
coffee, glucose syrups, coal tar jelllcs,
spurious whiskeys. adultcrnted drugs,
and imitation fiavoring extracts. One
does not want Goldfish sausnges or
green hams, smoke cured all pre-.
served with boraclc acid; New Or.
leans molasses' or honey composed
largely Of glucose; olive oil. In reality
cotton seed oil; pure raspberry jelly,
manufactured from glucose mixed with
citrlc acid and coal tar dye.
III the state cannot protect the In.
divi,lunl against such swindling-antl
the state commissions confess their
inpOtencc-One naturally looks to the
Federal government for protection and
to his representative In Congress Il
provide statutory means for such pro
lection. How has the welfare. the
health. and longevity Of the SO.OOO.OOC
Americans been conserved by Con
grcss!"
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The Beef Trust IL making a hard
fight ut Washington against pure food
law.
Tho following II from a Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, Feb
3, 1900:
Recently this opposition has taken
IN extremely dangerous turn. The peO
pie who are behind 1t realize that there
h Il general demand throughout thu
country for national legislation on THU
subject. They do not dare to fight !,
outright. therefore, aud so they art
combining their attention In an effort t.
destroy the value Of the Inv when 1t !,
enacted and to make 1t difficult II no,
impossible Of execution.
"Tl,ere IRE now on the statute book,
Of many States, particularly In tn,
north, laws which II enacted would q,
a long ways toward dispOsing Of TIN
Impure food products which IRE nov
flooding the markets Of the country I,
a notorious degree. In Illinois, for In
stance, there II u law which. II hon
cstly executed. would put IN end to tin
vast amount of frauds practiced upOl
the people. The law, however, Is tn ,
large extent II dead letter AMI the iii
nOls food commissioner II said to hay,
become an offensive partisan In TIN
movement to break down national legls
lntlOn on this subject. Honest advO
Gates here Of pure food law IRE as
tOnislied that Gov. Deneen should per
init any Illinois official to take a stan'
In public which manifestly Is In Opposl
ton to the best interests of nineteenth
of the people OF the State of Illinois
"The antl-purc food lobby here Il
Washington, which has Its headqual
tiers ut the Willard Hotel, ana wh,c
apparently Is supplied with an unlimil
ell amount Of money, seems to hav
come to the conclusion that some kin
of Il pure food law Is inevitable Mt thi
session Of Congress. They are there
fore bending all their energies to brea
down or minimize the effect Of such
law when passed"
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Remembering that 1t was always til
habit to use the carcases of cameron
or lumpy jawed cattle after the cal
GERS were cut out, the public IL prol
ably getting q fuller dose Of lump
jawed cattle for food than ever. O
the very day that the city discontinue
its inspection and condemnation, I'll
Commissioners of Health Of Chicago l,
sued the following remarkable instru'
lions In his bulletin OF December 81
1906:
1.-THE Commissioners has issued th
following instructions to the chief |,
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
awhile actinomycosis 10 usual
confined to the head. and may be cal
In one sense to b Q localised dissas
and while some inspectors condem
only tho part involved. ! believe II
safest aud most practicable to condem
the entire carcass wherever the act
nomycotic abscess opens into IL
mouth. pharynx. larynx or any part Z
the digestive or respiratory tract; q
when the lymphatic glands are invol'
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