Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-11
Il Has Been waged Hard in Con.
gress for the Past Seventeen
Years
And the Result Is q Bill that
Pleases the Beef Trust All
Alone.

and read by him and which Il used by
the unsuspecting consumer who gets
forty doses Of chemicals and colors q
day, or 14,0OO doses a year, is as fol.
lows:
Sausage containing coal tar dye and
borax. and potato -four.
Butter containing coal tar dye or
bOrax.
Canned cherries containing coal tar
dye or sallcylic acid.
Tomato soup containing coal tar
dye and benxoic acid.
Cabbage and corned beef containing
saltpeter.
Corn scallops containing tornado.
hyde.
Canned pease, sallcylic acid.
Catsup. coal tar dye and benzoic
acid.
Mince pie. boracic acid.
Pickles, copperas, sodium sulphite
and salicyllc acid.
Canned beef containing borax.
Canned peaches. sodium sulphite, coal
tar dye and salicylic acid.
Baked pork and beans, Tornado
hyde.
Currant jelly, coal tar dye and sail.
cylic acid.
Cheese. coal tar dye.
I'VE have pharmacy and medical
laws regulating the administration Of
drugs, extracts and simples," said Mr..
Patterson, "and yet we aiiow q claAs
Of people without any medical skill to
administer poisonous colors to our
selves and to our children In colored
foods, beverages and CONNECTIONS.
"Ail the coal tar coiors are manu-.
featured by artificial processes with.
out proper supervision % to their ef.
feet upon the public health. and none
Of them should be administered In
foods in the promiscuous manner now
prevailing.
Antiseptics. said Mr.. Patterson. are
used In these preparations to prevent
fermentation. "Antiseptics may" he
continued, "like colOring matter, be
divided into two classes-flrst, those
which are not only admittedly harm.
lcss. but that are also useful articles
Of food. such ~ common salt, sugar,
spices. etc. Those have been used sipce
time immemoyial and their use must
he considered legitimate.
1.-THE second class embraces the 10.
called chemical preservatives. the prin
clpai ones Of which are sallcylIc acid
and benxoic acid, with their salts;
boracic acId and borax. formnldehyde,
sacchariil, sucrol. sulphurous acid ind
It's salts, nhr,lstol, beta naDhthol md
some Of the n,,0rine compounds. The
application Of these preservatives to
food products IL Of comparatively re-
cent date and In my opinion their use
is a menace to public health and long
evity."
The spirits Of Thousands Of poor
boys who went out to nsht for the
United States In the spanlsh.Ameri.
can war. must hover over the fortunes
Of the B<sf Trust In q demand for
vengeance
These thousands were killed BY the
"embalmed heef'' Of the Beef Trust
and by the polsons used In the makeup
Of their Beef Trust rations.
Neither the bullets Of the Spaniards
or the terrors Of the Cuban climate
did any havoc to the American soldier.
poor boy, at all comparable with the
damage done by the frlghtful embalm'
ed food of the Beef Trust.
The young fellows who offered their
lives to the American government, did
not for a moment imagine that the
country for which they were lighting
would permit Beef Trust to furnish
them with poisoned rations.
But It did.
The soldiers trusted their country
and ate the poison.
The result was death, disease. broken
constitutions for thousands.
These are facts which the war rec.
ords will corroborate.
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One hundred and sixteen articles pro-
duced by the Reef Trust In Chicago
have been examined and condemned by
the honest pure food commissioner Of
the State OF North Dakota. Every one
NJ them was condemned because It
contained a poison and was therefore
detrimental to the public health. Lack
OF space alone prohibits US from print
ink the list and the names Of the
houses shipping the stun.
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How can the people get any sort Of
fair play from the Illinois Legislature
II the officers Of 1t are In the employ Of
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BY the way, what p DR.. Dyson, who
used to be government chief inspector,
doing n0wf
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Chicago ID the homo and the hsGS.
quarters Of the Beet Trust.
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The pure food laws VIM Of cosrsA
b. enforced against some poov lit4ll
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