Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-17
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.

Here ID a stream of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within a few
inches Of the nations food supply.
How do we know that sufficient pre-
cautions arc taken to prevent contami-
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know?
They inform ms that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own AFFAIR: that is. their busI.
ness they will manage II as they see
IL. Whose affair is II, then. II the
nation cats diseased meat. II we nre
poisoned by tricbinac, IL cancer In
crcnscs?
Other countries are not 10 dull as
We are about these things. Other
countries understand very well the
monstrous pcrils involved In the meth
DDS Of this monopoly. and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats,
To quiet their objections the United
States Is supposed to keep nn insp:stos
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon It an official stamp certify.
ing that 1t Ii 1t for food.
have here before me letters written
by former employees OF the trust ass'ir-
Ing me that the Federal inspection Is
a farce. The inspectors inspect moth.
ing, say these letters. They sit read
ing or smoking with their pockets full
of tags. which are handed out as they
are required. One man tells me that
he used to get fifty ut time. reach.
Ing his hand into the inspectors
pocket.
If, then, these are the methods In
regard to export beef, about which
there Ia nominal inspection. what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption. Oh
which there IL no inspection ut all?
why IL the Federal inspection allow
cd 10 bc Indifferent? Well. why IL ev-
crything about this subject 50 rotten?
Why was the Beef Trust allowed 10 20
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent Il?
Why arc the laws Inert against this
criminal organization? Why IL u man
sent to prison for five years for forg-
Ing hvc.,lollnr check AMI these men
go free for swindling u nation!
Why do We contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
hoartlsI
Why arc VIC content to have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind GER
tainly suggest fraud and trpachcry?
We arc not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
Az to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubcrcu.
losIs and the cancer, put a stop tn prl-
vatc slaughtering. Let all the slaugh.
tcrIng OF food animals he done by the
State In the light Of day. without any
OF this dark lantern business. OH equal
terms for nll. There arc very few
private slaughter houses In England.
Tho cities and towns run their slaugh-
ter houses under medical inspection.
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat
And we need not worry about the OBJ
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are IN 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
70 saved profits that he makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
fur on tho road to public sanitation to
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State will
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 and scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera 1t can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer. u 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 Ia Mt least as clear
MS In the other.
Ale
Thanks TO the Beef Trust methods.
cancer numbered 1,10l victims In Chi
cago In 1905, or G7 more than In 100.
I'm Increase Of the rate per 10000 of
population OF 2.93 per cent.
The Increase In deaths from cancer,
In Chicago In 1905 over the average
for the decade ended In 1904 was 1O.1
per cent, ana over the average rate of
the decade ended In 1884 was 3i.1 per
cent!
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One Of the most cunning and des-
perate deeds of the Beef Trust was
the defeat, by Beef Trust methods, of
the attempt OF the secretary OF agrl.
culture to secure 135 additional meat
inspectors for Chicago. The secretary
asked for $l35,0OO to pay for 1876 In
spcctors to inspect meats going to Eu-
rope-nOt meats for Americans, for
anything Is good enough for us. The
Congressional Committee. possibly un.
der Beef Trust hypnotic influence, only
appropriated $4,000. so the Euro
peans are In almost as great danger as
ourselves.
The pure food laws will, Of course,
he enforced against some poor little
grocer But against the Beef Trust,
neveri