Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-15
It Floods Chicago with lumpy Jaw
Cattle and the Authorities
Do Nothing.
This City the Dumping Ground for
All the Bad Cattle in the
West.

ping. private refrigerator lines, i'm.
mense grain elevators and cold.storags
plants scattered at the strategic points
and In part, no doubt, to the sheer
brutal force Of unlimited millions of
dollars: a power welded by few per.
sons whom society does not hold Der.
sonally responsible at present.
The spirits Of thousands Of Door
boys who went out to fight Cor the
United States In the Spanish meri.
can war. must hover over the fortunes
Of the Beef Trust In q deraud foe
vengeance
These thousands were killed By the
'embalmed heef' Of the Beef Trust
and by the poisons used In the makeup
Of their Beef Trust rations.
Neither the bullets Of the Spaniards
or the terrors Of the Cuban climate
did any havoc to the American soldier,
poor boy. at all comparable with the
damage done by the frightful embaim.
ed food Of the Beef Trust.
The young fellows who offered their
lives to the American government, did
not for moment imagine that the
country for which they were fightins
would permit Beef Trust to furnish
them with poisoned ratlons.
But II did.
The soldiers trusted their country
and ate the poison.
The result WINS death, disease. broken
constitutions for thousands.
These nre facts which the war rec.
ords will corroborate.
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st. Paul, MIMI. Feb. 2O.-A coro-
ners jury investigating the death Of
Ernest GOers, who died Feb. 8 after
eating pork sausage, to-day returned a
verdict recommending that the author.
tiles take proper means for n more
rigid inspection and examination OF all
food products. The testimony showed
that the sausage eaten by GOers was
bought from South st. Paul packing
house, where government inspectors In.
spect all meat products.
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Talk about government inspectioni
We take the following from the last
annual report Of Or. Charles ]. Whalsn,
Commissioner or Health Of the city Of
Chicago. The facts speak for them.
selves.
AT the Union Stock Yards duriue
the last i've months Of the year, seven
inspectors (ave Of whom were appoint.
cd In November) have condemned and
destroyed 2.704.03S pounds Of meat. %
being unit for food: all Of which
would have been sold In the city Of Obi.
cago, and for which the purchases
would have paid hrst.class prices"
"From these hgures Il n ve-v evident
that inspection BY the city Of all food
products II Of untold value, not only
from a financial but from q sanitary
and hyglenlc standpoint"
1.-THE following will show how neces.
sary city inspection 10 at the Union
Stock Yards:
"The city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
ERNMENT INSPECTION:
"lo5 cattle. cause. actlnomycosis.
'D7 cattle. cause, cancellation.
"24 cattle, cause. tuberculosis. evi.
dence Of disease having been trimmed
out.
40 cattle. cause. 'd0wners.'
"?7 sheep. cause, pneumonia.
'04 hogs. cause, pyaemia aud tubercu.
losis.
"47.720 pounds Of cut meats shipped
from st. Fouls, Omaha, etc., for can.
ming. This meat was sour and Shiny"
The new government inspection II q
Joke.
The law went into force and effect
Oct. I and every day since that date
the market reports Of the daily news.
papers have quoted prices on "canner
cows" and "canner CATTLE"
Everybody knows. or ought to know.
by this time what "canner' Is.
1t may b6 as well, however, to soy
that "canner" IL a sickly animal,
diseased, crippled or worn out A COW
that has "thrown" Its calf and that
gives no milk. An animal that Ia I'm.
fit for dairy purposes aud at only for
the bone yard.
This Is the liberated. cancerous or
tubercular creature that 10 thrown to
the tender mercies of the Beef Trust
ana cut up and sold to the people.
Read the market reports and you
will see the figure that the "cannsr"
cuts In the live stock market.
The Government inspectors, most of
whom were packing house employees,
have disclosed through the daily press
the wonderful way In which the public
Is to be protected.
They have caused to be Drinted fac