Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-03
A Prominent Chicago Physician, Addressing
the Chicago Medical Society, Arraigns
Stock Yards Conditions.
He Predicts an Upheaval Among
the People Unless Things
Change.

Hged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market. which Con.
grcss closed practically for the benent
of the beef trust by clapping duty Of
10 per cent al valorcm on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust, accord.
ing to Associated Press dispatches,
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust fixes
now the cost Of the leather. the raw
material out Of which shoes are made.
and hence II controls both the prices
Of shoes In the domestic market and
In the export shoe trade. built up at
great expense by our shoe mnnufac.
turers.
Furthermore, It Is common knowl.
edge that the domestic price of butter,
eggs. butterinc, dressed poultry. the
grains, fruits, vegetables. apples. pota.
toes and probably other foods Ia rcyu.
lated largely by the same trust Of cor.
porations.
This Is logical and unavoidable Mt
present. 1t Is due in part to special
privileges OF lower rates In the ship.
ping. private refrigerator lines. I'm.
mcnsc grain elevators aud cOld.storage
plants scattered at the strategic points
and In part, no doubt. to the sheer
brutal force of unlimited millions Of
dollars: power welded by few per.
sons whom society does not hold per.
sonally responsible at present.
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Thanks to the Beef Trust methods,
cancer numbered 1.1Oi victims In Chi.
cago In 1905, or O. more than In 1904
nm Increase Of the rate per 10000 Of
population Of DOB per cent.
Tho increase In deaths from cancer
In Chicago In 1905 over the average
for the decade ended In 1904 was 1O.1
per cent. and over the average rate of
tho decade ended In 1884 was 3i.1 per
! cent!
One Of the most cunning and dcs.
pcrate deeds Of tho beef Trust was
tho defeat, by Beef Trust methods. Of
the attempt Of the secretary Of ngrl-
culture to secure 13j additional meat
inspectors for Chicago. The secretary
asked for $i35.OOO to pay for 135 In.
spcctors to Inspect meats going to Eu.
rOpc-nOt meats for Americans, for
anything Is good enough for us. The
Congressional Committee. possibly I'M.
der Beef Trust hypnotic influence only
appropriated $4,000. No the Euro.
pcans are In almost us great danger as
ourselves.
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