Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-15
4 Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that 1t Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How do we know that sufficient mn.
cautions arc taken to prevent contains.
nation2
How do the trust gentlemen kuovs
They inform us that what eoes On
behind the walls Of their plants q
their own affair; that ID, their buse-
ness; they will manage It as they ~
fit. Whose affair Is II, then, ie tio
nation cats diseased meat, if Ne aro
poisoned by trlchinae. II cancer Inr
creases?
Other countries are not 10 dull q
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll ti,s
monstrous perils involved In the n,etA.
ods Of this monopoly, and. tl,ersfoss,
try to exclude American meats,
To quiet their objections the Uulhs6
States Is supposed to keep an inspsstDe
upon meat intended for export and b
place upon 1t m official stamp certify.
ing that 1t Is fit Tor food.
1f, then, these are the methods la
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what do
you suppose IRE the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, %
which there Is no inspection at ALT
whywns the Beef Trust allowed to %
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent itf
Why are the laws inert against thfa
criminal organization? Why In q mas
sent to prison for five years for foeg-
Ing a flvc-dollar check and these uea
go free for swindllng natiouf
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content to have or
food prepared for US In secret un6se
conditions that to any sane mind O..
tainly suggest fraud and trcaclieryr
We IRE not obliged to have tiess
things II We do not want them. TIE
remedies are simple enough.
As to the "lumpy Jaw" tho tubercu-
losis and the cancer, put a stop 70 pss-
vate slaughtcring. Lot all the slaugh-
tering Of food animals be done By tiss
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for all. There are very Nev
private slaughter houses In England
Tho cities and towns run their slaugh-
ter houses under medical iuspectioa.
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat
And we need not worry about the o.
lection that publicly owned slaughtse
houses are an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When It comes b
life aud death there are no privsAD
rights Of business. No man has rielue
to saved profits that be makes b
spreading disease. We have gone ~
fur on the road to public sanitatioa b
turn back bcause some gentlemauS
profits are threatened. The Stats viN
not allow you to 90 around with smail-
pox or to conceal scarlet fever in your
house, although each may bs styietie
your own affair. Compared with Can
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever aeo
nothing. II the State can take radle,l
measures to stamp out cholera it en-
take radical measures to stamp a.
cancer, q million times worss than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest hsusas
for public safety It can provide slauGh,
ter houses for public safety. Asa lau
duty In the one case 10 at least q claae
40 In the other.
Health Department Builstia, Dss.
%. 1905:
"At the Union Stock Yards The t.
lowing have been condemned al d.
stroyed:
"2soA cattle. weighing i4ssss
pounds:
1850 hogs, weighing 4O.475 pouuAs,
"Cut meats weighing 5,O24 poands.
"l5 calves, weighing s55 pounds
~ sheep. weighing 200 pounds.
"Twenty-one cattle, nine hogs anl
6,O24 pounds cut meats were Con-
demned after Dassing) government u
specti0n."
%SA
Health Department Bulletin, Novsn,
ber %, 1906:
"Condemnations Of unnt food duEing
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, cams
pounds OF cattle, hogs, calves and shsen
AT retail markets 80,730 pounds a
beef, ham and poultry"
The Beef Trust will be st0N,ed, ~
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composad
Of experts" try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department, the ma
1ority of the deaths In Chicago wees
among infants. Now. thanks t0 the
Beef Trust, the great majority Of ~
E...ple who die are adults, the avssa0p
age Of the deceased having increase
from infancy In 1915 to 81 ysass =
1906i