Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-02
4 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 suficlent pre.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen knovf
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that IL, their busi.
ness; they will manage It as they -
ft. Whose affair IL II, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned by trlchlnae, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not 40 dull %
! we are about these things. Other
countries understand very well tho
monstrous perils involved in the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly. and, therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
TO quiet their objections the United
Suites is supposed to keep IN inspector
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon It an official stump certify.
Ing that 1t Is 1T Tor food.
If, then, these are 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 Is no inspection at allf
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to 20
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent IT.
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organixation2 Why Ii q man
sent to prison for i've years for forg.
Ing Hve-dollar check and these men
60 free for swindlIng q nationi
Why do We contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
J. boards?
/! Why are we content to have our
tood prepared for 10 In secret under
coalitions that to any sane mind Ger.
",nN suggest fraud and treachery2
we are not oblIget to have these
th'pgs II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
As to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis ana the cancer, put stop to pri.
,ate slaughterIny Let oil the slaugh-
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 oil. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
Tho cities and towns run their slaugh.
ter houses under medical inspection.
But In England tho people do not cara
to be poisoned In their meat.
And we need not worry about the Oh
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When Il comes %
life and death there are no private
rights OF business. No man has q right
10 saved profits that he makes b.
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back because some gentlemau's
profts are threatened. The State win
not allow you to 20 around with small.
p0x or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each may be strictly
your own AFFAIR. Compared with can.
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera II can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer. q million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slaugh-
ter houses for public safety. And Ito
duty In the one case is ut least as clear
as In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%, 1905:
AT the Union Stock Yards the fol-
lowing have been condemned and de-
strOyed:
"2s0A cattle. weighing l4s.s2a
pounds:
1850 hogs, weighing 4O.475 pounds
Cut meats weighing 5.O24 pounds.
10 calves, weighing 855 pounds.
Y sheep, weighing 200 pounds.
"Twenty.One cattle. nine hogs and
5,024 pounds cut meats were con.
demned after Dassing) government In.
specti0n."
Health Department Bulletin. Noyem.
Der 20. 1905:
"condemnatlons of unnt food during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, 8s70S
pounds OF cattle, hogs. calves and sheep.
AT retail markets 88,730 pounds OF
beef, ham and poultry"
Ihe Beef Trust will be stopped. no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed,
Of experts" try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department, the ma.
jority of the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority OF the
Easple who die are adults. the averass
age Of the deceased having Increased,
from infancy In 1875 to 81 years u.
D.. Ill a.!