Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
4 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 suaicient ore.
cautions are taken to prevent contaml.
natlon7
How do the trust gentlemen know9
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own AFFAIR; that Ii, their busl.
ness; they will manage II AZ they 80
IT. Whose affair IL II, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II we are
poisoned BY trichlnne, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not 10 dull 40
! we nre 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 United
States Is supposed to keep an insp,,tor
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon II an official stamp certify.
Ing TINT It is flt Tor food.
II, then, these IRE the methods In
regard to export beef. about which
there Ii nominal inspection. what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption. on
which there is no inspection at allf
Why was tho Beef Trust allowed to 70
on year nfter year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent IL
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organixationf Why 10 man
sent to prison Tor I've years for forg.
Ing a hve.dollar check and these men
90 free for swindling q nation?
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
ll0ardsf
Why are we content to have our
food prepared for ~ In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind cer.
tainly suggest fraud and trcachery3
We ore 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 to pri.
vatc slaughtering. Let all the slaugh-
tering Of food animals be done BY the
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for oil. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
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 an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When Il comes 10
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has Q risht
10 saved profits that hs makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on the road to public sanitation 10
turn buck because some geutlemau's
profits are threatened. The State win
not allow you to 90 around with small.
p0x or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each may be 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 Il can
take radical measures to stamp ont
cancer. q million times worse than
cholera. II II can provide pest houses
for public safety II can provide slaush.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case 10 at least % clear
% In the other.
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%. 1905:
"At the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned and de.
stroyed:
"ssoA cattle. weighing 1852.
pounds:
1850 hogs. weighing 4O.475 pounds.
Cut meats weighing 5.O24 pounds.
"l5 calves, weighing 1856 pounds.
Y sheep, weighing 280 pounds.
"Twenty'one cattle. nine hogs and
b,O94 pounds cut meats were con.
demned after passing government in.
spectIon."
Health Department Bulletin, Noyem.
ber 20. 1906:
"Condemnations Of unit food durlua
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards. 0s,70S
pounds OF cattle, hogs, calves aud sheen
AT retail markets 66,7S9 pounds Of
beef. ham and poultry"
The Beef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
of experts" try to save II.
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 ths
Easple who die are adults. the averass
age Of the deceased having increasoA
from Infancy In 1915 10 81 ysars y
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