Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-26
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 nr.,
cautions are taken to prevent contsmI.
natlon2
How do the trust gentlemen know,
They inform US that what eoes an
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that is, their busj.
ness; they will manage Il a. they see
ut. Whose affair 10 Il, then, II the
milton cats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned BY trlchInae, II cancer in.
crenses?
Other countries are not 10 dull %
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perlls 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 inspector
upon meat intended for export and 10
place upon It an official stump certify.
Ing TINT It Is at for food.
II, then, these are the methods IN
regard to export beef, about which
there Il nominal inspection. what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there Is no inspection at alif
whywas the Beef Trust allowed b 10
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent ~
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organixationl Why 10 q man
sent to prison for iive years for forg.
Ing q nvc.dollar check and these men
60 free for swindling a natlonf
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 secret under
conditions that to any sane mind Ger.
tatnly suggest fraud and treachery3
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies IRE simple enough.
As to the 'lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis and the cancer, put stop to pri.
vate slaughtering. Lot all 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 oil. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
Tho 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 tho oh.
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are IN invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When II comes 10
life aud death there are NO private
rights Of business. No man has risht
10 saved profits that be makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
fur on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
PROFITS are threatened. The State win
not allow you to 60 around with small.
pox 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 it can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer. q million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety It can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case is at least a. 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 and de.
strOyed:
"2soA cattle. Weighing l4s,sea
pounds:
1865 hogs, weighing 4O,475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5,O24 pounds.
10 calves. weighing S55 pounds.
y sheep, weighing 200 pounds,
"Twenty'One cattle. nine hoRs and
6.O24 pounds cut meats were con.
demned after Uassins) government Ip.
spection."
Health Department Bulletin. Novsu.
W. So 1UOO
"Condemnations Of unit food durins
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, 0a,7oo
pounds OF cattle. hogs. calves and sheep
AT retail markets 80.780 pounds OF
beef' ham and poultry"
The Beef Trust will be st0pped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
OF experts" try to save It.
Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department, the ma.
1ority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority Of the
lsaople who die are adults. the averass
age Of the deceased having increaseA
from i,fancy In 1875 TO 81 years y
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