Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that 1t Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

the trust slaughter houses are exactt!
such as would allow the meat Ut
"lumpy Jaw" cattle to bc sent OUT "s
food
Suppose that VIC take Of the matter
the most charitable view possible.
Suppose we assume that the trust geh-
tlemen are most scrupulOus about as'
the ways In which they make money.
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
of gOuge ana robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator ear lines. the maiiip-
ulation of a thousand markets Tor
profits. the tribute levied by this com
bination upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law.brcakers and moncy-mad and as.
sumo thnt 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" cattleI
How do the trust gentlemen know!
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen.
tlemcn. How do we know the ways
In which the money is made?
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Here IL Il stream of the most terrible
infection passing daily within n few
inches of the nations food supply
How do we know that sufficient pre-.
cautions are taken to prevent contani.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know :?
They inform us that what goes OH
behind the walls Of their plants IL
their own affair; that IL, their busl.
ness they will manage II rs they see
iit. Whose affair Is 1t. then. IL the
nation eats diseased meat, IL VIC are
poisoned by trlchlnnc. IL cancer In
crcnscs?
Other countries nrc not 10 dull M
we nrc about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll tho
monstrous pcrils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly. and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats,
TO quiet their objections the United
Suites Is supposed to keep nn insp r:tor
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon It IN official stamp certify
Ing that It IL lit for food.
have here before me letters written
by former employees Of the trust assur-
Ing me that the Federal inspection IL
a farce. The inspectors inspect moth
Ing, say these letters. They sit read
Ing or smoking with their pockets full
OF tugs, which are handed out M they
arc required. One 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 ~
regard to export beef, about whlcl
there Il nominal inspection, what dt
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption. Oi
which there IL no inspection ut all?
Why IL the Federal inspection allow
ed to be Indifferent? Well, why II ev
crytlling about this subject 10 rotten
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to u
Oh year after year violating the Inv
and no attempt made to prevent 1t?
Why are the laws inert against till
criminal organization? Why IL a MAJ
sent to prison for five years for forg
Ing a Ave.dOllnr check and these mel
20 free for swlndling a nation!
WHY do We contribute our dollars
year after year to swell nnncccssar!
boards?
Why are we content to have on
food prepared for us In secret unde
conditions that to any sane mind cer
tainly suggest fraud and treachery?
We are not obliged to have thes'
things II We do not want them. TN
remedies are simple enough.
As to the ''lumpy jaw" tho tubcrcti
lOsIs and the cancer, put stop to prl
vate slaughterlng. Let all the slaugll
terIng of food animals he done by tin
State In the light of day, without an!
of this dark lantern business, on eQua
terms for all. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaugll
ter houses under medical inspection
But In England the people do not car
to be poisoned In their meat.
And we need not worry about the oil
lection that publicly owned slaushte
houses are an invasion OF the privat
rights of business. When 1t comes t
life and death there are no prlvat
rights of business. No man has a righ
to saved profits that no makes b.
spreading disease. We have gone to-
far on the road to public sanitation I
turn back bcause some gentleman
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 strictl
your own affair, Compared with can
Ger, smallpox ana scarlet fever ar
nothing II the State can take radica
measures to stamp out cholera 1t ca
take radical measures to stamp on
cancer million times worse tha
cholera. If 1t can provide pest house
for public safety 1t can provide slaugl
ter houses for public safety. Aud It
duty I'm the one case Is ut least as clea
as In the other.
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| The Beef Trust laughs ut pure foo
laws.