Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02

that inspection by the city Of all food
products IL Of untold value, not only
from a financial but from q sanitary
and hyglenic standpoint"
1.-THE following will show how neces.
sary city inspection IL at the Union
Stock Yards:
"rhe city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
ERNMENT INSPECTION:
1926 cattle, cause, actinomycosls.
'O7 cattle. cause, cancellation.
'24 cattle, cause, tuberculosis, evl.
dence Of disease having been trimmed
out.
40 cattle, cause, 'downers.'
"?7 sheep, cause, pneumonia.
"04 hogs, cause, pyaemla and tubercu.
losis.
"47.7oO pounds Of cut meats shipped
from st. Louis. Omaha, ETC., for can.
ming. This meat was sour and Shiny"
The discovery Of tons Of rotten
canned goods and decayed material In.
tended for food In the possession Of
Chicago business houses, bears out the
Eagles declaration made some time
ago that Chicago business associations
deplOred the attacks on the Beef Trust
because they were just as guilty them
selves.
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The Beef Trust can poison the p'o.
pie; the railroad trusts slaughter the
people and the theatrical trust roast
the people. But the Milk Fed Press
views the situation with complacsncy
because Of Milk Fed ads. Transports.
ton cOurtesies and theatrical passes
with the privilege Of getting acQuaint'
cd with an actor or two.
Some Of the fellows who are ad.
vertising cattle cars, electric cars and
other wonderful Improvements and
who offer the stock Of same for sale
ut fabulously low figures. should be
looked after by the police. There are
too many Of them at large In Chicago
to-day.
The Reef Trust mas caused q bis
raise In the price of shoes. The al
legged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market. which Con-
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Of the beef trust by clapping duty Of
10 per cent ad valorem on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust, accord
Ing to Associated Press dispatches
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust fixes
now the cost of the leather. the raw
material out Of which shoes are made
and hence II controls both the prices
Of shoes In the domestic market aud
In the export shoe trade, built up al
great expense by our shoe manufac
turers.
Furthermore, 1t Is common knowl
edge that the domestic price Of butter
eggs, butterine. dressed poultry, thu
grains, fruits, vegetables, apples, pota
toes and probably other foods is regu
lated largely by the same trust Of cor
pOratiOns.
This IL logical and unavoidable a
present. 1t IL due In part b specia
privileges of lower rates In the ship
ping, private refrigerator lines. i'm
mense grain elevators and cOld'storag'
plants scattered at the strategic point
aud in part, no doubt, to the shee
brutal force of unlimited millions o
dollars; a power welded by few per
sons whom society does not hold per
sonally responsible at present.
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The following from the Bulletin o
the Health Department for month o
May: "The meat inspectors at tn
stOckyards condemned and destroyed
total Of 1,705 pounds Of beef, porl
veal and mutton"
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The Trust press of Chicago CAREFUL
eliminates from the reports of the Oh
, cago Health Department which 1t pull
fishes, all reference to the condemns
, ton of tubercular and cancero,
cattle at the Union STOCK Yards. TT
{ aim Of the Trust press - - keep Il