Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-09
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 the trust gentlemen known
Here IL q stream Of the most terrible
infection passing daily within few
inches Of the nations food supply.
How do we know that sufficient pre-.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen knowf
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 II as they see
At. Whose affair Is II, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II we are
poisoned by trlchinae, II cancer In
creases?
! Other countries are not 30 dull 40
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very well the
monstrous perls involved In the meth.
ods Of this monopoly. and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the United
states ls supposed to keep nm insp,stor
upon meat Intended for export and to
place upon It an official stamp certify.
ing that 1t Is fit for food.
II, then, these IRE 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 10 inspection mt oil?
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to 90
OH year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent It?
Why IRE the laws Inert against this
criminal organization? Why is man
sent to prison for Ave years for forg'
ing a five.dollnr check and these men
20 free for swindling a nation?
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are 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 nre simple enough.
As to the "luinpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis and the cancer, put a stop to pri'
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugh.
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 be poisoned In their meat.
And we need not worry about the OBJ
lection that publicly owned slaughter
! houses are I'M invasion OF the private
! rights Of business. When 1t comes to
life and death there are no private
= rights Of business. No man has right
I to saved profits that he makes BY
I spreading disease. We have gone too
{ far on the road to public sanitation to
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
z profits are threatened. The State will
q not allow you to 90 around with small
Q pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
Q house, although each may be strictly
}. your own affair. Compared with can.
). Ger, smallpox and scarlet fever are
4 nothing. IL the State can take radical
1 measures to stamp out cholera It can
e take radical measures to stamp out
:; cancer, q million times worse than
u cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
b for public safety It can provide slaugh.
e ter houses for public safety. And it,
}. duty In the one case 10 at least % clear
) as In the other.
;. @6
Thanks to the Beef Trust methods,
;, cancer numbered 1,l91 victims In Chi.
!. cago In 1906, or q more than In 1901
!, an increase Of the rate per 10000 OF
= population Of ?.03 per cent.
y The increase In deaths from cancer
Q In Chicago In 1905 over the average
o for the decade ended In 1904 was lO1
@ per cent, ana over the average rate OF
v the decade ended In 1854 was 34.l pei
:. cent!
\. One Of the most cunning and des-
IL perate deeds of the Beef Trust was
o the defeat, by Beef Trust methods, OF
the attempt of the secretary of agri
p culture to secure 135 additional meat
" inspectors for Chicago. The secretary
asked for $l35,0OO to pay for l35 In
It spectors to inspect meats going to Eu'
u rope-not meats for Americans, fOI
y anything Is good enough for MS. The
II Congressional Committee, possibly un
Is der Beef Trust hypnotic influence, only
appropriated $4,000. SO the Euro
'r peans are In almost as great danger as
O. ourselves.
y, II %S0A
!, The pure food laws will, Of course
y, be enforced against some poor littl'
"a grocer. But against the Bee: Trust
"a never!
D. %6A
,r The Beef Trust Is sending money int
n Germany to stir up strife and forc'
le the government to permit the impOrta
re ton Of its meats.
~ If Mayor Dunne's administration de
"a stroyed over 100000 pounds Of can
49, cerOus and tuberculOus meat In Nv
months, by the inspection work O.
,, only eleven inspectors. how many bill
10 lions of pounds Of cancer and tubes
n. culosis were fed to the people durinl