Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-16
It Floods Chicago with Lumpy Jaw
Cattle and the Authorities
Do Nothing.
This City the Dumping Ground for
All the Bad Cattle i'm the
West.

Does the Meat Inspection law pro.
tect the foreigner?
1t certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
Chicago Is reveling In n feast of
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
is In force. but, so far as Chicago Is
concerned, 1t Is a dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This Is as far as the Federal author.
ity can go.
1t cannot interfere with local condi.
lions.
These are wholly under the control
Of the local government and the local
government believes that when the
tubercular parts Of the beef and the
lumpy Jaw or cancerous parts Of the
beef are cut out, that the rest Of the
carcass Is good to eat.
SO thousands Of Chicagoans are eat.
Ing lumpy Jaw cattle every day, III
blissful ignorance Of the awful facts
and the Beef Trust II getting richer
than ever by purveying bad food to the
people.
The most radical legislation Is neces
sary to obliterate this evil and the
people will get 1t when they wake ur
and realize the terrible danger that
constantly mcnaces themselves and
their families under present conditions
Speaking Of the suplneness Of the
Chicago Health Department In this
matter, the Chicago Tribune In No
Gently printed editorial declared:
"The Health Department should al
once enact and enforce the regulations
which have been prepared by the De
partment Of Agriculture.
III those regulations are necessary
to insure the good quality Of Chicago
meat which Is to be eaten by English
men they are equally necessary to In
sure the good quality Of Chicago mea
which Is to be eaten In Chicago. II
foreigners are deserving Of protection
the people OF Chicago are also. They
will not get the same degree Of pro
lection unless the local inspection 4
M good as the Federal inspection.
''rhere will he an attempt to worl
of on Chicago consumers inferior meat
which cannot be marketed elsewhere
Many Of the smaller packers who have
no outside trade will not maintain ,
high standard Of cleanliness In the'
establishments unless they are forcet
to. There Is need Of vlgllant municipa
inspection to keep this city from be
coming a dumping ground for poor mea
and to enforce sanitary regulations Il
packing houses which are outside tn
scope Of Federal supervision"
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What an awful fuss the daily newt
papers make over the insurance sat
dais! And yet not one person In 1000
affected by them. Yet the daily new
papers have nothing to say against tn
Beef Trust. which r0bs every mar
woman and child In the cOmmunit
every day.
The workingman and every otne
man for that matter Ii entitled to pur
food and pure medicine. A government
that does not protect a man and hi
family In these particulars deserves
be OverthrOwn. The Beef Trust mus
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The Beef Trust Ia going to contrt
the grazing business as well as til
rest OF the cattle trade. 1t Is acquiI
ing title to millions of acres OF Ian
In Colorado for the purpose Of rail-
Ing cattle.
The number Of cattle afflicted wit
tuberculosis Ia said to be very larg
The report Of the Chicago Health d.