Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-24
1t Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed Upon
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Attempt
to Make It Pay Costs Of Inspection
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products of
the Country and Its Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record

How do we know that sufficient pre.
CAUTIONS are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know,
They inform us that what .oes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair: that Is, their bust.
ness; they will manage II as they zee
fit. Whose affair is Il, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II we are
poisoned by trichlnae, II cancer In.
crcases?
Other countries are not 40 dull 40
, we nre about these things. Other
countries understand very well the
monstrous perils involved In the meth.
obs Of this monopoly. and, therefore,
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the United
States Is supposed to keep an lnsp.,tor
upon meat Intended for export and to
place upon 1t an. official stamp certify.
Ing that It Is 1T Cor food.
II. then, these are the methods IN
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection. what do
you suppose IRE the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there IL no inspection ut all
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to 70
ron year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent Il?
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organization? Why IL man
sent to prison for Ave years for fors.
Ing a hve.dollar check and these men
60 free for swindling a nationf
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
hoards?
Why are we content 70 have our
food prepared for ~ In secret under
conditions TINT to any sane mind Ger.
talnly suggest fraud and treachery3
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 stop to pri.
vatc Strengthening. Let oil the slaugh.
terlng Of food animals be done by the
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for all. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaugu.
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 IRE I'M invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When 1t comes to
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has right
to saved profits that 10 makes By
spreading disease. We have gone too
fur on the road to public sanitation to
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State win
not allow you to go around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each may be strictly
your own affair. Compared with. Gun.
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera It 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 at least as clear
as In the other.
&SA
The Eagles prediction that tho Beef
Trust would raise the price OF food
on the people has been fulfilled. The
action Of the packers Is expected tn
arouse particularly those members of
Congress who have insisted that the
packers should pay the cost of the
meat Inspection, for which Congress
now approprlates 100000 annually.
one OF the arguments used against this
proposal has been the allegation that
the packers would mt once shift the
cost Of the inspection to the cattle
ralsers.
Now that the packers propose to
shift the loss from condemned cur.
cases while ut the same time they
profit by the advertisement Of the gov
eminent guaranty of the wholesome
ness OF their products the proponents
of the plan to make them pay for the
government inspection insist they have
IN argument. Senators Beverldge, Of
Indiana, and Gallinger, Of New Hamp-
shire. have already promised to renew
the fight In the next Congress.
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Congress should ut once add to the
meat Inspection law these three pro.
visions: