Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-17
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.

tho trust slaughter houses are exactly
such ns would allow the meat Vi
''luinpy jaw" cattle to he sent out ny
food.
suppose that We take Of the matter
the most charitable view possible.
Suppose we assume that the trust gen.
tleinen are most scrupulOus about a!'
the ways In which they make money.
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
of gouge a,.a robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator ear lines, the manip-
ulatiOn of a thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this com.
bination upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law.brcakers and mOney-mad and as.
sumo that not one Of them would
touch cent Of questionable profits.
still this question starcs us In the
face: How do we know what becomes
of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen.
tlcmcn. How do we know the ways
In which the money IL made?
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Here IL n stream Of the most terrible
infection passing daily within II 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 us that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants Is
their own affair: that ls, their busi-
ness; they will manage It rs they see
ut. Whose affair II II, then, II the
nation cnts diseased meat, II We nre
poisoned by trlchinne. II cancer In.
crcases?
Other countries arc not no dull M
we arc about these things. Other
! countries understand very we'll the
monstrous pcrils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats,
TO quiet their objections the United
statcs IL supposed to keep an inspector
upon meat intended for export nnd to
place upon It an official stamp certify
Ing that It Is fit for food.
Ihavc here before me letters written
by former employees Of the trust ass'lr'
Ing me that the Federal inspection Is
a farcc. Tho inspectors Inspect moth
Ing, say these letters. They sit read
Ing or smoking with their pockets full
OF tugs, which are handed out as they
are required. Ono man tells me that
he used to get fifty ut time. reach.
Ing his hand into the inspectors
pocket.
II, then, these are the methods In
regard to export beef. about which
there Ia nominal inspection, what do
YOU suppose arc the methods about
meat for domestic consumption. oil
which there In no inspection ut all?
Why IL the Federal inspection allow
cd to be Indifferent? Well. why II ev'
erything about this subject 10 rotten
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to ~
OH year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent 1t?
Why are tho laws inert against till
criminal organization? Why II a maj
sent to prison for five years for f0rg
Ing a Ave-dollar check and these meI
20 free for swindling a nation?
Why do We contribute our dollars
year utter year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content to have Oul
food prepared for us In secret uIhiel
conditions that to any sane mind Ger
tainly suggest fraud and treachcry?
We are not obliged to have thes'
things IL We do not want them. Th'
remedies are simple enough.
AZ to the "lumpy jaw" the tubcrc,
losls ana the cancer. put stop to prl
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugl'
tering of food animals be done by TIN
State In tho light of day, without IN!
, of this dark lantern business, on eqia
terms for all There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities ana towns run their slaugll
ter houses under medical inspection
Rut IN England the peo'ic w ho' '"I'
. to be poisoned In their meat.
, And we need not worry about the oh
, lection that publicly owned slaughte
, houses are an invasion of the prlyat
rights Of business. When 1t comes L
life ana death there are no prlyat
rights of business. No man hns rigll
to saved profits that he males b.
spreading disease! We have gone TO-
, far on the road to public sanitation Z
turn back bcause some gentlemai.
{ profits are threatened. The State viii
, not allow you to go around with small
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In you
. house, although each may be strctl
D your own affair. Compared with can
2 Ger, smallpox and scarlet fever ar
: nothing. If the State can take radica
measures to stamp out cholera 1t ca
take radical measures to stamp on
t cancer, a million times worse tina
cholera. II 1t can provide pest house
for public safety 1t can provide slaugl
, ter houses for public safety. And II
duty in the one case Ia at least as clea
as In the other.
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I The Beef Trust laughs at pure foo
, laws.