Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-28

would have no standing rs party to
suit to enjoin the Chicago health de-
partment from condemning carcasses
passed BY the State and government
inspectors. '"rhis opinion" said Sec.
Rotary Prltchard Of the health depart.
ment, strengthens the clty's claims
TO Ike supreme In the inspection Of
meat"
The Beef Trust must 90.
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The number Of members Of the prcs.
ent Legislature controlled by the Beef
Trust 10 known to man.
40
Remember the Beef Trust when you
nre nominating candidates for the
Legislature this year.
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The number Of dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold % food s something awful.
Numbers Of hogs die in the cars In
transit to the Beef Trust; their bodies
are often eaten by the other hogs and
their pet disease transmitted by them
to the human race.
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The Beef Trust has ruined many a
prosperous small business. The hide
industry, the boot and shoe trade. the
sheepskin tanners, the leather tanners,
the wool pullers, the wool trade, the
vegetable market, the poultry busi.
ness, the retail meat markets, the
Wholesale meat markets, the soap
trade-all these and many more have
been swallowed up by this awful
leviathan. How much longer will the
people stand It?
How much longer will the American
people put up with diseased food?
People who think that they get good
meat are invited to read the follow
Ing clipped from the live stock repor,
Of tho Chicago Daily News. January
0, 1905:
equality Of offerings was not good
It was such as the trade usually looks
for on Tuesday, with tho Wisconsin
shipments largely predominating. II
was not the absence Of good finished
stun that made the slow market, how
| ovaw M tho huvoWs xvovn Oooowo 4,
looking for low-priced cattle. Ship
pers had only a few orders Mt most
ana the great percentage of then
We're for plain finished cattle. Sine.
the ending of the western season there
has generally been rs good demand
for the commoner sorts OF cattle q,
for the better priced steers. A few
tOppy kinds have reached $G.25 this
week, but they are as scarce as thu
prOverbial hens teeth"
| We do not see any quotations II
the dailies on trichina hogs.
All the rotten old Reef Trust lobby
lists, consisting Of crooked lawyers
CASTOR politicians ana scarecrow states
~s~ ~ getting ready. But when thu
Illinois Legislature meets these
worthless will be pointed out SO that III
who runs may read.
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People must remember that the cit!
had only eleven inspectors ut work OF
cattle, hogs, sheep and provisions
Necessarily their work must hav,
been very incomplete when there wer'
100000 cattle a week to inspect. tn
berculOsis and cancer are bound to b'
shipped to all quarters as food.
Reef Trust cold storage IL a bad
thing. Yet 1t Is popular Just now. Til,
rotten food turned out In the shape OF
diseased poultry from Beef Trust rO0sts
Is thus touched upon by Health Com
missioner Whalon, Of Chicago, In hi'
annual report:
"Cold storage Is one OF our present
necessities, but 1t Is evident that II
has been shamefully misused by dis
honest men. While certain articles
Of food are better after more or less
prolonged storage, certain fruits and
vegetables spoil so soon after removal
from the cold storage as to give q
very unfavOrable impression.
"Again, poultry or game Ia often
stored In an undrawn condition and Il
afterWard sold to the public. Attention