Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-27
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.

Does the Meat Inspection law pro.
tect the foreigner?
1t certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
Chicago Is revellng In a feast of
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is in force. but, SO far rs Chicago IL
concerned. It Is dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This Is rs far as the Federal author.
lty can 70.
It cannot interfere with local condi.
lions.
These are wholly under the control
Of the local government and the local
government believes that when tho
tubercular parts Of the beef ana the
lumpy Jaw or cancerous parts Of the
beef are cut out 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 IL neces-
sary to obllterate this evil and the
people will get It 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 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.
"lf those regulations are necessary
to insure the good quality Of Chicago
meat which IL to be eaten by English.
men they are equally necessary to In.
sure the good quality Of Chicago meat
which IL to be eaten In Chicago. II
foreigners are deserving Of protection
the people Of Chicago are also. They
will not get the same degree Of pro.
lection unless the local inspection II
us good as the Federal inspection.
''rhere will be an attempt to work
of ON Chicago consumers inferior meats
which cannot he marketed elsewhere.
Many of the smaller packers who have
no outside trade will not maintain q
high standard Of cleanliness In their
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
and 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 N No
vember. 1905. and they have heard
more every week since then.
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The Beef Trust slaughter houses an
like morgues. The Beef Trust mag
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In magaxine articles. OF course thes'
slaughter joints are clearly. The!
have to be. They are sanitary In near
~ every respect The only unsani
tary things about the Trust slaughte
houses are the cancerous cattle. tn
tuberculosis cows and the trichini
hogs. The surroundings have to b
kept clearly. like all buildings devot
ed to the care Of cadavers. Even tn
embalmed beef turned out by th'
Trust II anitary-from an embaimer'
standpoint.
; One hundred and sixteen articles pro
duced by the Beef Trust In Chicag'
have been examined and condemned b!
the honest pure food commissioner o.
the State Of North Dakota. Every ON