Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-25


etn of the Chicago Health Department,
August H.
There were no city meat inspectors
stationed ut the Union Stockyards dur.
Ing the first seven months of 1905. The
city inspectors ut the yards this year
have condemned 3,1O0,I 1888 pounds Of
food.
"'rhe total condemnatlons Of unfit
foods In the 1905 period were 453,O57
pounds. The total condemnatlons for
the 1906 period. including the inspec.
ton of the yards. aggregate 4,3O6,9i3
pounds. an Increase Of 3,S52,0S0
pounds"
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Remember the Beef Trust when You
are nominating candidates for the
Legislature this year.
The number Of dead and diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold % food IL 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 Reef 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 bust.
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 food9
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People who think that they get good
meat are invited to read the follow
Ing clipped from the live stock report
Of the Chicago Daily News. January
0. 1905:
equality Of offerings was not good
It was such as the trade usually looks
for on Tuesday, with the Wisconsin
shipments largely predominating. II
was not the absence Of good finished
stun that made the slow market, how
ever, as the buyers were generaly
looking for iow.priced cattle. Ship
pers had only q few orders at most
and the great percentage Of then
were for plain finished cattle. Since
the ending Of the western season ther,
has generally been 40 good q demant
for the c0mmoner sorts OF cattle q
for the better priced steers. A few
toppy kinds have reached $8.25 thi,
week, but they are az scarce 40 tn
proverbial hens teeth"
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We do not see any quotations Il
the dailies on trichina hess.
All the rotten old Beef Trust lobby
lists. consisting OF crooked lawyers
CASTOR politicians and scarecrow states
~~A go getting ready. But when tn
Illinois Legislature meets thes.
worthless will be pointed out 90 that b
who runs may read.
People must remember that the CIV.
had only eleven inspectors at work Of
cattle. hogs, sheep and provisions
Necessarily their work must hav
been very incomplete when there wer
100000 cattle a week to inspect. Tu
berculOsis and cancer are bound to b
shipped to all quarters rs food.
Beef Trust cold storage Ia a ba,
thing. Yet 1t Is popular Just now. Thu
rotten food turned out In the shape o
diseased poultry from Beef Trust roost
Is thus touched upon by Health Com
missioner Whalen, OF Chicago, Id hi
annual report:
"COld storage IL one OF our presen
necessities, but 1t Is evident that !
has been shamefully misused by dis
honest men. While certain articles
! OF food are better after more or les
prolonged storage, certain fruits AM
vegetables spoil SO soon after remOva
from the cold storage as to give
very unfavOrable impression.
"Again, poultry or game Is Offer
stored In an undrawn condition and 4
al4orxr rl c1.ld "a tho IailLlio Affonklol