Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-21
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 pre-
cnutions are taken to prevent contaml.
nation?
! How do the trust gentlemen know7
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 1t as they see
ut. Whose AFFAIR Is It, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat. II we are
poisoned by trichinae, IL cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not so dull 40
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perils involved In the meth.
ods Of this monopoly, and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
10 quiet their objections the United
States Is supposed to keep an insps:tor
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon II an official stamp certify.
ing that 1t Is fit tor food.
If, then, these are 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 at all?
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to 60
on year after year violating the law
and 10 attempt made to prevent It?
Why are the Mws Inert against this
1 a ,,t. Nsl,,, L.,
sent to prison for five years for forg-
ing fvc.dollar check and these men
so free for swindling nation?
Why do We contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why IRE we content to have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind Ger.
tainly suggest fraud and treachery?
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-
iosis and the cancer, put stop to pri-
vate slaughtering. Let oil the siaugh-
tering Of food animals he done by the
State In the light Of day. without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for oil. 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 he poisoned In their meat.
And we need not worry about the OBJ
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When II comes to
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has right
to saved profits that he makes BY
sRreading disease. We have gone too
fur on the road to public sanitation to
turn back bcause some gentleMau's
profits are threatened. The State .wilt
not allow you to 60 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, although 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 its
duty In the one case Is ut least as clear
as In the other.
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
90, 1905;
"At the Union Stock Yards the fol-
lowing have been condemned and de-
stroyed:
'2sOh cattle. weighing l4ss2i
pounds:
1860 hogs, weighing 4O,475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5,024 pounds.
"l5 calves, weighing S55 pounds.
~ sheep. weighing 200 pounds.
"rwenty-one cattle, nine hogs and
5,O24 pounds cut meats We're con-
demned after passing) government in
spection."
Health Department Bulletin. Novem-
Der %. 1905:
! "COndemnati0ns Of undt food during
the week:
"At the Union Stock Yards. %, 703
pounds OF cattle, hogs, calves and sheep.
AT retail markets 68,739 pounds OF
beef, ham and poultry"
The Reef Trust will he stopped. no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and 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 the
Beef Trust, the great majority Of tie
people who die are adults, the average
age OF the deceased having increased
from infancy in 1875 to 81 years In