Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-23
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 su6lciest ues.
cautions are taken to prevent coutanl.
nation?
How do the trust geatlemen ksovS
They inform us that what spss a
behind the walls Of their plants u
their own affair; that ID, their busl.
ness; they will manage II as they ~
IT. Whose affair is II, then, V ths
nation cats diseased meat, II ~ aee
poisoned by trichinae, II cancer In.
creascs?
Other countries are not 20 duh %
we nre about these thineA 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 Uniosd
States Is supposed to keep an insIDsStoe
upon meat intended for export and b
place upon It an official stump certify.
Ing that 1t Ia fit Tor food.
II, then, these IRE the methods 10
regard to export beef. about which
there Is nominal inspection, what Do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumptiou, On
which there Is no inspection at aiif
Whywas the Beef Trust allowed b 70
on year after year violating the Law
and no attempt made to prevent Il?
Why IRE the laws inert against this
criminal organization? Why ls q man
sent to prison for fvc years for eoes.
Ing hve-dollar check aud these men
so free for swindling a nation?
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 seCst undar
conditions that to any sane mind CO.
tainly suggest fraud and tzeacheeyi
We are not obliged to have thess
things II we do not want them. IT,
remedies are simple enough.
As to the "luinpy Jaw" the tubsreu-
losis and the cancer, put q stop 20 pri-
vate slaughtering Let sli ths slassh-
terlng Of food animals be done by u
State In the light Of day, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for oil. There are vesy ceW
private slaughter houses In Eugiaua
Tho cities and towns run ti,slr slasgh.
ter houses under medical iuspeceiou.
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat
And We need not worry about tos -
lection TINT publicly owned slasghoae
houses are an invasion Of ths peivats
rights Of business. When it comas q
life and death there are no privaes
rights Of business. No man has Q riehe
10 saved profits that 10 makss n
spreading disease. We have eons -
fur on the road to public sanitatiea b
turn back because some oaatlamaHs
profits are threatened. Ths 0taes viN
not allow you 10 60 around With msall
pOx or to conceal scarlet cevee u youe
house, although each may b slsictiy
your own affair. Compared With en-.
Ger. smallpox and scarlet Gsvse scs
nothing. II the state can take radical
measures to stamp out cholsea e a.
take radical measures 10 Otamp euf
cancer. q million times worss than
cholera. II It can provide pest houass
for public safety II can provlds slaneh-
ter houses for public safety. And ID
duty In the one case 10 at lsast q elsar
% In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin, De.
%. 1905:
"At the Union Stock Yards ti,e co,.
lowing have been condemned and De.
strOyed:
"2sOM cattle. weighing Iss,sas
pounds:
1850 hogs, weighing 4O.475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5024 pounds,
"l5 calves. weighing S55 pounds.
~ sheep, weighing 200 pounds.
"Twenty.One cattle, nine hogu ana
5,O24 pounds cut meats were con,
demned after (passing) government in
spectlpn."
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Health Department Bulletin, Noveu,-
ber 20. 1905:
"Condemnations of undt food dnriue
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, o07aa
pounds OF cattle, hogs. calves aud si,ssp.
AT retail markets GG,739 pounds of
beef, ham and poultry"
The Beef Trust will he stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
OF experts" try to save It
Thirty years ago, according to ti,s
Chicago Health Department, the ma
jority Of the deaths In Chicaso wees
among infanta Now. thanks b tiss
Beef Trust, the great majority OF ~
pasple who die are adults, the avseaoD
age Of the deceased having iucssaas1
from Infancy in 1876 to 81 ysass =
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