Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-20
It Floods Chicago with Lumpy Jaw
Cattle and the Authorities
Do Nothing.
This City the Dumping Ground for
All the Bad Cattle i'm the
West.

Does the Meat Inspection law pro.
tect the foreigner?
1t certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
Chicago IL revellng In n feast OF
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is In force, but, so far as Chicago Ii
concerned. It Is n dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This is as far as the Federal author.
ity can go.
It cannot interfere with local condi-
lions.
These are wholly under the control
of the local government and the local
government believes that when the
tubcrcular parts Of the beef and the
lumpy Jaw or cancerous parts of the
beef are cut ont, that the rest Of the
carcass Is good to eat
SO thousands of Chicagoans are eat.
Ing lumpy Jaw cattle every day. IN
bllssful ignorance of the awful facts
and the Beef Trust Is getting richer
than ever by purveying bad food to the
people.
The most radical legislation Is neces.
sary to obliterate this evil and the
people will get 1t when they wake up
and realize the terrible danger that
constantly menaces themselves and
their families under present conditions.
Speaking Of the seriousness of the
matter. the Chicago Tribune In a re.
Gently printed editorial declared:
1.-THE Health Department should at
once enact and enforce the regulations
which have been prepared by the De
partmcnt OF Agriculture.
"If those regulations are necessary
to insure the good quality Of Chicago
meat which Is to be eaten by English.
men they are equally necessary to in.
sure the good quality OF Chicago meat
which II to be eaten In Chicago. II
foreigners are deserving Of protection
the people Of Chicago IRE also. They
will not get the same degree Of pro.
lection unless the local Inspection Is
rs good as the Federal inspection.
''rhere will he an attempt to work
of on Chicago consumers inferior meats
which cannot be marketed elsewhere.
Many Of the smaller packers who have
no outside trade will not maintain q
high standard Of cleanliness In the;l
establishments unless they are forced
to. There IL need of vigilant municipal
inspection to keep this city from be
coming dumping ground for poor meat
ana to enforce sanitary regulations In
packing houses which are outside thu
scope of Federal supervision"
President Roosevelt and the member,
Of Congress first heard about the Bee
Trust horrors from the Eagle In No
vcniber. 1906, and they have heard
more every week since then.
~
The Beef Trust slaughter houses ar,
like mOrgues. The Beef Trust mag
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In magazine articles. OF course thes>
slaughter johns are cleanly. They
have to he. They are sanitary In near
~ every respect. The only unsani
tary things about the Trust slaughte'
houses are the cancerous cattle, tht
tuberculosis cows and the trlchins
hogs. The surroundings have to bt
kept clearly. like all buildings devot
ed to the care of cadavers. Even thu
embalmed beef turned out by the
Trust Ia sanitary-fr0m an embalmeri
standpoint.
One hundred and sixteen articles pro.
duced by the Beef Trust In Chicago
have been examined and condemned BY
the honest pure food commissioners Of
tile State of North Dakota. Every one