Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04
For Years Stole Millions Of Gallons Of Water from the Peoue
Of Chicago through blind Pipe" and Never Made Rest
tuition and Never Was Punished for Stealno
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products Of
the Country and Its Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record

How do we know that sufficient pre.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know,
They inform us that what goes ON
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own AFFAIR: that II, their busi.
ness; they will manage II as they 80
mt. Whose aifair ID Il, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, IL we are
poisoned BY trIchInae. II cancer In
creases?
Other countries are not 20 dull 90
we nrc about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll tho
monstrous perils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and. therefore,
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the United
states Is supposed to keep an insp.ctor
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon It an official stamp certify.
Ing that It Is flt Tor food.
II. then, these are the methods In
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what do
you suppose IRE the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there Is no inspection at ali7
whywas the Beef Trust allowed to 20
on year after year violating the law
ana no attempt made to prevent IT.
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organixation2 Why is q man
sent to prison for i've years for forg.
Ing nve.dollar check and these men
60 free for swindlins q nationP
Why do we contribute our dollar.
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are We content to have our
food prepared for % In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind Ger.
talnly suggest fraud and treacheryf
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
Az to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu-
losis and the cancer, put stop to pri.
vate slaughterlng. Let all 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 all. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaueb.
ter houses under medical Inspection
But In England the people do not care
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 to
life and death there are no privsts
rights Of business. No man has Z rishN
10 saved profits that he makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back because some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State viii,
not allow you to 60 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each may bs strictlS
your own Qffair. 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 ont
cancer, million times worse than
cholera. II It can provide pest houses
for public safety II can provide sla,,eh.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case Is at least as clear
az In the other.
Insanitary conditions In the stock
yards were severely censured by DIR.
Arnold 9. Klebs In a lecture ON "Con.
sumption aud the Home" given In the
Public Library under the auspices Of
the Chicago Medical Society.
some day these insanitary condi.
lions out at the stock yards will cause
Q great upheaval In Chicago" lie said.
They are directly responsible for a
great deai OF the tuberculosis now
prevalent In Chicago. and firmly
believe that one Of the greatest strides
that can be made towards stamping
out this disease IL to bring about
proper conditions at the stock yards"
IT the laws regarding the selling Of
diseased meat were enforced t,,e Beef
Trust would now be In jall.
Tie daily papers should cease the
publication OF fake financial advertise
ments.
The 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.
)ority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among Infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust. the great majority OF tho
eaople who die are adults, the averass
age Of the deceased having increased
irom Infancy In 1876 to q ysars d,
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