Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-02

liz beeL trust ID oil powerful u
Congress-
Seventeen years ago the first pure
food bill was introduced In the Sen.
ate, and It has been debated OF and
ON ever since"
With this introduction Henry
Beach Necdham tells In Worlds
Work the amaxing story Of the delays
to the pure food bin in the United
States Senate as an illustration of oh.
structIve methods.
1t will enable the millions Of con.
sumers Of food to understand why
the United States Ii the only civil.
ised country which does not possess q
national food law. Il will enable
them to appreciate the difficulties
which now confront the Hepburn bill
during the present session Of the
United States Senate. the only meas.
ure. according to the best authorities.
that there Is any hope Of passing.
Every American workman" says
Mr.. Needham. 1T 10 fair 10 assume,
Ii Interested vitality In securing for his
family what he earns by the sweat Of
his brow-pure food and pure drugs.
"whcn one pays for wholesome or.
tlcles he does not care to receive bad
coffee. glucose syrups, coal tar jellies,
spurious whlskeys, adulterated drugs,
aud Imitation havoring extracts. One
does not want Goldfish sausagcs or
green hams, smoke cured all pre-
served with bOracic acid; New Or.
leans molasscs' or honey composed
largely Of glucose; olive oil. In reality
cotton seed oil; pure raspberry jelly
manufactured from glucose mixed with
cltric acid and coal tar dye.
III the State cannot protect the In.
dividual. against such swlndling-and
the state commissions confess their
impotcnce--Onc naturally looks to the
Federal government for protection and
to his representative In Congress to
provide statutory means for such pro.
lection. How has the welfare, tho
health. and longevity Of the SO.OOO,OOO
Americans been conserved by Con.
grcss?"
The Beef Trust h making q hard
fight ut Washington against pure food
law.
The following IL from Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, Feb.
B, 1905:
Recently this opposition has taken
M extremely dangerous turn. The peo-
ple who are behind Il realize that there
IL a general demand throughout the
country for national legislation on this
subject They do not dare to fight Il
outright, therefore. and 30 they are
their attention In an effort to
destroy the value Of the law when II In
enacted and to make It difficult II not
impossible OF execution.
'"rhere are now on the statute books
Df many States, particularly In the
north. laws which II enacted would 70
4 long ways toward disposing Of the
Impure food products which are now
lioOdlng the markets OF the country to
4 notorious degree. In Illinois. for In.
stance, there Ii q law which, II hon
sstly executed, would put an end to the
vast amount Of frauds practIced upon
the people. The law, however. is to a
large extent dead letter and the iii.
a0is food commissioner In said To have
become an offensive partisan In the
to break down national legis.
atlOn on this subject Honest adv0-
,ates here Of pure food law are %.
.Onished that Gov. Deneen should per.
nit any Illinois official to take stand
N public which manifestly Ia In Opposi.
ion to the best interests Of nine.tenths
II the people Of the State Of Illinois.
"The anti'pure food lobby here In
which has It's headquar.
.ers at the Willard Hotel. and which |
apparently Is supplied with an unllmit.
Vi amount Of money, seems to have |
'Ome to the conclusion that some kind |
II q pure food law Ii Inevitable ut this |
'esslon Of Congress. They are there
ore bending all their energies to break |
Town or minimize the effect Of such
aw when passed"
~
Remembering that 1t was always the
labit to use the carcases Of cancerous
u lumpy jawed cattle after the can.
,ers were cut out, the public Ia prob.
IDLY getting a fuller dose OF lumpy
awed cattle for food than ever. On
he very day that the city discontinued
ts inspection and condemnation, the
of Health Of Chicago ID.
ued the following remarkable instruc.
Ions In bis bulletin Of December 80,
0O5:
'"rhe Commissioner has issued the
GLOWING instructions to the chief In.
pector at the Union Stock Yards:
"'While actinomycosis u usually
on6ned to the bead. and may be said
q one sense to be q localized disease.
nd while some inspectors condemn
My the part involved. ! believe It u
afest and most practicable to condemn
be entire carcass wherever the acti.
omyc0tc abscess opens Into the
aouth, pharynx. laryux Of any part OF
be digestive or respiratory tract; o.
'hen tho lymphatic glands are invok
d; or whore there are actinomycotic