Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-08
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How do we know that sufficient ma.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know,
They inform us that what goes o.
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that IL, their busi.
ness: they will manage It a. they 80
mt. Whose affair Is It. then. IL the
nation cats diseased meat, IL we are
poisoned by trlchinae. IL cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not ~ dull a
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the Unitsd
States Is supposed to keep an inspsctor
upon meat intended for export and .
place upon II an official stamp certify.
Ing that It IL at Tor food.
II, then, these nre the methods In
regard to export beef, about which
there Ia nominal inspection. what Do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption. on
which there is no inspection at all?
whywas the Beef Trust allowed to 70
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent Il?
Why are the laws ipert against this
criminal organIxatlon, Why u man
sent to prison for i've years Tor forg.
Ing a nve.dollar check and these men
20 free for swindling q nation?
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell Unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content tO have our
food prepared for us In secrst under
conditions that to any sane mind Ger.
tainly suggest fraud and treacl,ery?
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
As to the 'lumpy jaw" the tubercu.
losIs and the cancer. put q stop 70 pri.
vate slaughtering. Lot all the slaugh.
tering Of food animals be done BY the
State In the light Of day. without any
OF this dark lantern business, IN equal
terms for all. There ars very few
private slaughter houses Ia Englaud.
The cities and towns run their slaugh.
ter houses under medical Inspection.
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat
And We need not worry about the oh
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are IN invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When It comes to
life and death there are nO private
rights Of business. No man has 4 right
70 saved profits that he u,akes BY
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on the road to public sanitation to
turn back because some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State will
not allow you to 60 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, although each may bs. strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera II can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, a million times 'wOrse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case is ut least as clear
as In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin. Dec.
%, 1905:
"At the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned aud de-
stroyed:
"ssOA cattle. weighing l4s,s2a
pounds
1865 hogs, weighing 4O.475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5.O24 pounds.
"l5 calves. weighing S55 pounds.
~ sheep, weighing 200 pounds.
"Twenty.one cattle, nine hogs and
5,O24 pounds cut meats we're con.
demned after (passing) government in.
specuOn."
| heaIth department Bulletin, SOven.
ber 70, 1905:
"Condemnations Of undt food during
the week:
"At the Union Stock Yards, 6s.7 .793
pounds Of cattle, hogs, calves aud sheep.
AT retail markets G6,739 pounds Of
beet, ham and poultry"
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The Beef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
OF experts" try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago. according to the
Chicago Health Department. the ma.
jority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority Of the
people who die are adults, the averaep
age OF the deceased having increased
from infancy In 1875 to 81 years 10
1905!