Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-20
For Years Stole Millions Of Gallons Of Water from the People
Of Chicago through blind Ppes and Never Made Rest.
tuition and Never Was Punished for Stealing.
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 ore.
cautions are taken to prevent contaml.
nationf
How do the trust gentlemen know, {,
They inform US that what eoes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that is, their busi
ness they will manage Il a. they 80
ut. Whose affair IL Il, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned BY trlchinae, II cancer In.
creases3
Other countries are not 40 dull 40
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous pcrils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and, therefore.
try to exclude American meats,
To quiet their objections the Uniteo
states Is supposed to keep pn inspector
upon meat intended for export and TO.
place upon It an official stamp certify.
Ing thnt It Is 1T Tor food.
II, then, these nre the methods IN
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there Ii no inspection ut alif
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to 10.
ON year after year violating the law
ana no attempt made to prevent ~
Why arc the laws inert against this
criminal organixation7 Why Ii man
sent to prison for i've years for fors.
Ing q 6vc.dollar check and these men
60 free for swindlins q nationf
Why do we contribute our dollars
year utter year to swell unnecessary
boards?
| Why are We content to have our
food prepared for 10 In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind Ger.
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryi
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 tubcrcu.
losis and the cancer, put a stop to prs.
vate slaughterlng. Let all the slaugl,-
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 all. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaugls
ter houses under medical inspection
But In England the people do not care
to he poisoned In their meat.
And we need not worry about the oh.
lection that publicly owned SLAUGHTER
houses are IN invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When Il comes 10
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man haa q risht
to saved profits that he makes b.
spreading disease. We have gone too
far 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 arc
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera Il can
take radical measures to STAMP out
cancer, million times worse than
cholera. II It can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slausb.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case 10 ut least az clea,
as In tho other.
Insanitary conditions In the stock
lards were severely censured by DIR.
Arnold G. Klebs In a lecture on "Con-
sumption and the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices of
the Chicago Medical Society.
"s0me day these insanitary condi-
lions out ut the stock yards will cause,
q great upheaval In Chicago" lie said.
They are directly responsible for n
great deal OF the tuberculosis now
prevalent In Chicago. and firmly
believe that one Of the greatest strides
that can be made towards stamping
out this disease Ia to bring about
proper conditions at the stock yards"
It the laws regarding the selling OF
diseased meat were enforced the Beef
Trust would now be In jail.
The lumpy-jaw Industry Is thriving.
So Is scarlet fever, diphtherla aud tu-
berculOsis.
The Beef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
of experts" try to save II.
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Thirty years ago, according to tho
Chicago Health Department, the ma.
1ority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority OF tho
paople who die are adults, the averanp
age OF the deceased having increaseA
from Infancy In 1875 to a years q
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