Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-12

would have no standing Us party to a
suit to enjoin the Chicago health de.
partment from condemning carcasses
pissed by the State and government
inspectors. This opinion" said Sec.
rotary r'ritchard Of the health depart.
ment, strengthens the city's claims
10 he supreme In the inspection Of
meat"
The Reef Trust must 20.
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The number Of members Of the prcss
ent Legislature controlled by the Beef
Trust IL known to man.
Remember the Beef Trust when You
are nominating candidates for tho
Legislature this year.
The number Of dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold as food IL something awful.
Numbers of hogs die In the cars In
transit tn the Beef Trust: their bodies
are often eaten by the other hogs and
their pet disease transmitted by them
to the human race.
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The Beef Trust has ruined many q
prosperous small business. The hide
industry. the boot and shoe trade. the
sheepslIin tanners, the leather tanners,
the wool pullers, the wool trade, the
vegetable market. the poultry bust
ness. the retail meat markets, the
wholesale meat markets. the soar
trade--all these aud many more have
been swallowed up by this awful
levinthan. How much longer will the
people stand II?
How much longer will the American
people put up with diseased food9
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People who think that they get goot
meat are invited to read the follow
Ing clipped from the live stock repor
Of the Chicago Daily News, Januar,
o, 1909:
equality Of offerings was not good
1t was such as the trade usually look
for on Tuesday, with the Wisconsin
shipments largely predominating. !
was not the absence Of good Finished
stun that made the slow market. how
ever. as the buyers were general!
looking for low-priced cattle. ship
pers had only a few orders at most
and the great percentage Of then
We're for plain finished cattle. Sine
the ending Of the western season Their
has generally been az good deman'
for the c0mmoner sorts OF cattle O
for the better priced steers. A few
t0ppy kinds have reached $a?5 thl
week, but they are a. scarce az tn
proverblal hens teeth"
We do not see any quotations 4
the dailies on trichina hogs.
.sll the rotten old Beef Trust lobby
lists. consisting OF crooked lawyer,
castOff politicians and scarecrow states
uss 80 getting ready. But when tn
Illinois Legislature meets thes
worthless will be pointed out 80 that ID
who runs may read.
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People must remember that the cit
had only eleven inspectors ut work o
cattle. hogs, sheep and provisions
Necessarily their work must hav
been very incomplete when there WEI
10000 cattle week to inspect. II
berculOsls and cancer are bound to Il
shipped to all quarters rs food.
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Beef Trust cold storage Is ba
thing. Yet 1t Is popular Just now. Tn
rotten food turned out In the shape a
diseased poultry from Beef Trust rOost
Is thus touched upon by Health Com
missioner Whalen, OF Chicago, In hi
annual report:
cold storage Is one OF our presen
necessities, but 1t Is evident that
has been shamefully misused by dis
honest men. While certain article
Of food are better after more or les
prolonged storage. certain fruits AM
vegetables spoil so soon after remOva
from the cold storage as to give
very unfavOrable impression.
again. poultry or game IL Oftel
stored In an undrawn condition and 1
afterward sold to the public. Attentio,