Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-08
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products
the Country and It's Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record

How do VIC know that sufficient prs|
cautions are taken to prevent contami1
nationf
How do the trust gentlemen knoVi
They inform us that what goes Cd
behind the walls Of their plants u
their own affair; TINT IL, their busi|
ness; they will manage II as they se(
ft. Whose affair 10 II, then. II th4
nation eats diseased meat. II We ar@
poisoned by trlchinae, II cancer in|
creases?
Other countries nrc not 20 dull a
we are about these things. Othel
countries understand very well thu
m0nstrous perlls involved In the meth
ods Of this monopoly. and. therefore,
try to exclude American meats.
TO quiet their objections the Unitsd
States In supposed to keep an insp-:tol
upon meat intended for export and 4
place upon It an official stamp certify
Ing that II Is fit Tor food.
II, then, these are the methods d
regard to export beef, about which
there IL nominal inspection. what a
you suppose are the methods abou|
meat for domestic consumption. ol
which there IL no inspection ut ali3
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to q
on year after year violating the laI
aud no attempt made to prevent IT.
Why arc the laws Inert against thi|
criminal organization? Why II a mai
sent to prison for dvc years for fOrd
Ing Avc.dollar check and these mel
60 free for swindling a nation?
Why do we contribute our dollar
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content to have ou|
food prepared for us In secret unds|
conditions that to any sane mind cd
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryi
We are not obliged to have thsa|
things II we do not want them. RI
remedies are simple enough.
As to the ''lumpy Jaw" the tubercq
losIs and the cancer. put stop to pr|
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugI
terlng Of food animals be done by ID
State In the light Of day, without an|
OF this dark lantern business. on equd
terms for all. There are very fs)
private slaughter houses In England
Tho cities nnd towns run their slaugI
|, ter houses under medical iuspectiOI
But In England the people do not cad
, to be poisoned In their meat.
And We need not worry about the ol
lection that publicly owned slaughts
houses are an invasion Of the prlva(
rights Of business. When II comes
life aud death there are no prlvst
J rights OF business. No man has z righ
; 70 saved profits that he mal,ss b
! spreading disease. We have gone ID
! far on the road to public sanitation
J turn back because some gentlemauI
profits are threatened. The State vii
not allow you to 60 around with ANAL
. pox or to conceal scarlet fever in you
house. although each may bs strictl
. your own affair. Compared with caI
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever Cd
nothing. II the State can take radlc1
measures to stamp out cholera Il cs|
take radical measures to stamp od
cancer. q million times w0rse the
cholera. II 1t can provide pest hous@
for public safety 1t can provide slaugI
ter houses for public safety. And II
duty In the one case ls at least as cles|
% In the other.
insanitary conditions In the stod
rards were severely censured BY ID
Arnold @. Klebs In u lecture on "CoI
sumption and the Home" given In I'll
. Public Library under the auspices 4
|. the Chicago Medical Society.
"SOme day these insanitary cOnd
tlOas out ut the stock yards will caul
great upheaval In Chicago" he sail
, ''rhey are directly responsible for
! great deal Of the tuberculosis no|
prevalent In Chicago. and frm|
believe that one Of the greatest strld|
that can be made towards stampIl|
out this disease Is to bring ab0J
proper conditions at the stock yards
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II the laws regarding the selling 4
diseased meat were enforced the Bel
Trust would now he In jail.
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The daily papers should cease t4
publication of fake financial advertis|
, ments.
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: The Beef Trust will be stopped, d
matter how hard the Chicago tru|
press aud fake committees compost
J Of experts try to save It
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, Thirty years ago, according to u
Chicago Health Department. the mi
jority OF the deaths In Chicago wei
among Infants. Now. thanks to tn
Reef Trust. .ae great majority OF "a
p.S;pls who die are adults, the averad
, age OF the deceased having increas4
from infancy In 1915 to q years
Honnl