Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-12

COHkrcSS.
Seventeen years ago the first pure
food bill was introduced In the Sen.
ate. and It has been debated off and
on ever since"
With this introduction Henry
Beach Necdham tells In Worlds
Work the amazing story of the delays
to the pure food bill In the United
States Senate as an illustration of oh.
methods.
1t will enable the millions Of con.
sumers Of food to understand why
the United States Is the only civil.
lied country which does not possess u
national food law. 1t will enable
them to appreciate the difficulties
which now confront the Hepburn bill
the present session of the
United States Senate. the only meas.
TIRE, according to the best authorities,
that there IL any hope Of passing.
Every American workman" says
Mr.. Needham. 1T ID fair to assume.
is interested vitality In securing for his
family what he earns by the sweat Of
his brow--iurc food and pure drugs.
"Whcn one pays for wholesome ar.
tlclcs he does not care to receive bud
coffee. glucose syrups. coal tar jellics.
spurious whiskcys, adultcrated drugs,
and imitation hnvOring extracts. One
does not want Goldfish snusages or
green hams. smoke cured all pre-
served with bOracic acid; New Or.
leans mOlnsscs' or honey composed
largely Of glucose; olive oil. In reality
cotton seed oil; pure raspberry jelly
from glucose mixed with
cltric acid nnd coal tar dye.
III the state cannot protect the ins
dlvldunl against such swindllng--,nd
the State commissions confess their
impOtcncc--One naturally looks to tho
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 IL making a hard
fight ut Washington against II pure food
law.
The following II from a Washington
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune. Feb.
=. 1!Nki:
"ileccntly this opposition lns taken
nm extremely dangerous turn. The l,eO-
pie who nre behind II realize that there
IL u general demand throughout the
country for national legislation on this
subject. They do not dare to fight II
outright. therefore. and No they arc
combining their attention IN nm effort tn
destroy the value Of the law when 1t Il
enacted ana tn make 1t difficult II not
impossible Of execution.
"l'hcre nre now on the statute hooks
Of many States, particularly In the
north. laws which II enacted would 81
II long ways toward disposing Of the
Impure food products which IRE now
tiOOtllng the markets Of the country ia
u notorious degree. In Illinois, for In
stance. there II u Inv which. II hon
estly executed. would put IN end to the
vast amount Of frauds practiced upon
the people. The law. however, In to q
large extent dead letter ana the Ill.,
nOis food commissioner IL said to have
become an offensive partisan In the
movement to break down national legis
lntIOn on this subject. Honest advO
Gates here Of pure food Inv are as
tOnisllctl that Gov. Deneen should per
nit any Illinois official to take stand
In public which manifestly II In Opposi
tIOn to the best interests Of nine.tenth'
Of the people Of the State Of Illinois
"rlIe anti-pure food lobby here ~
Washington. which has Its headquar
tiers ut the Willard Hotel, and which
apparently II supplied with mn unlimit
ed amount of money. seems to have
come to the conclusion that some kind
Of u pure food law IL inevitable ut THU
session OF Congress. They are there
fore bending all their energies to breal
down or minimize the effect Of such /
law when passed"
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Remembering that 1t was always tin
habit to use the carcases Of cameron
or lumpy jawed cattle after the eau
GERS were cut out, the public Is prob
ably getting a fuller dose Of lump.
jawed cattle for food than ever. o.
the very day that the city discontinue,
its inspection and condemnation, tn
Commissioner OF Health OF Chicago Is
sued the following remarkable instruC
lions In his bulletin Of December &c
1905:
"The Commissioners has issued tn
following instructions to the chief In
spector at the Union Stock Yards:
awhile actlnomycosis IL usual.
confined to the head, and may be salt
In one sense to be a localized disease
and while some inspectors condemn
only the part involved, ] believe 1t I
safest aud most practicable to condemn
the entire carcass wherever the actl
nomycotic abscess opens into tn
mouth. pharynx, larynx or any part o
the digestive or respiratory tract; o
when the lymphatic glands are invol,
ed; or where there are actinomycoti