Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-19

and read by him and which Is used by
the unsuspecting consumer who gets
forty doses Of chemicals and colors a
day. or 1900 doses year, Is as fol.
lows:
Sausage containing coal tar dye and
bOrax, and potato flour.
Butter containing coal tar dye or
boraX.
Canned cherries containing coal tar
dye or salicyllc acid.
Tomato soup containing coal tar
dye AMI benzoic acid.
Cabbage nnd corned oeef containing
saltpeter.
Corn scallops containing Tornado.
hyde.
Canned pease. salicylic acid.
Catsup, coal tar dye and benzolc
acid.
Mince pie. boraclc acid.
Pickles. coppcras. sodium sulphite
and salicylIc acid.
Canned beef containing borax.
Canned peaches. sodium sulphite, coal
tar dye and salIcylIc acid.
Baked pork and beans. Tornado.
hyde.
Curant Jelly, coal tar dye and sail.
cyllc acid.
Cheese. coal tar dye.
I'VE have pharmacy and medical
laws regulating the administration Of
drugs, extracts and simples." said Mr..
Patterson, "and yet we allow class
OF people without any medical skill to
administer poisonous colors to our
selves and to our children In colorel
foods. beverages and CONNECTIONS.
"All the coal tar cOlors are manu-.
featured by artificial processes with.
out proper supervision rs to their ef-
feet upon the public health, and none
IT them should he administered IN
foods In the promiscuous manner now
prevailing.
Antiseptics. said Mr.. Patterson. are
used In these preparations to prevent
fermentation. "Antiseptics may" he
continued. "like cOlOring matter. be
divided into two classes--first. those
which are not only admittedly harm
less. but that are also useful articles
Of food. such ~ common salt, sugar,
spices. etc. Those have been used slp'a
time imlneno, ial AMI their use must
be considered legitimate.
"The second class embraces the SO
called chemical preservatives. the prn
c!lal ones Of which are sallcylic acid
and benzOic acid. with their salts
bOracic acid and bOraX, formaldehytle,
saccharln, sucrol. sulphurous acid and
its salts. nbrnstol. beta naDhthol end
some of the n,iorine compounds The
application of these personalities ia
food products Is Of comparatively re-
cent date and IN my opinion their use
IL menace to public health and long
evhy."
One hundred and sixteen articles pro
duced by the Beef Trust in Chicago
have been examined and condemned 10y
the honest pure food commissioner OF
the State of North Dakota. Every one
NJ them was condemned because II
contained q poison ana was therefore
detrimental to the public health. Lack
of space alone prohibits us from print
ing the list and the names Of the
houses shipping the stun.
~
Charges that government inspection
of beef Is inadequate, and protects til
foreign consumer to the detrlment o
ChicagOans We're made by DR.. william
X. jacques ut the meeting Of the Chica
go Medical Society at the public II
brary. DR.. Arnold G. Klebs expresse,
Endorsement OF DIR. Jaque's sentiments
After the broad assertions abov
quoted DR.. Jaques continued as FOL
lows: "The condemned carcasses ca
be sold by the consent Of the law afte
they have been branded on the. quarter
Of beef or mutton or pork, marke
with the condemned tag ana returne
to the owner. The latter Ia not force,
to destroy them. He may sell theI
and the only thing required IL that b
furnish q monthly statement, unde