Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
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 reveling In feast Of
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is In force, but, so far as Chicago Is
concerned. IL Is q dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This, Is us far as the Federal author.
ity can go.
1t cannot interfere with local condi.
tions.
These are wholly under the control
of the local government and the local
government believes that when the
tubercular parts of the beef and 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 Chicasoans IRE eat.
Ing lumpy Jaw cattle every day, In
blissful 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 II when they wake ur
and realize the terrible danger that
constantly menaces themselves md
their fnmilies under present conditions
Speaking Of the supineness Of tho
Chicago Health Department In this
matter. the Chicago Tribune In re
Gently printed editorial declared:
"The Health Department should a
once enact and enforce the regulations
which have been prepared BY the De
lpartment Of Agriculture.
"If those regulations are necessar!
to insure the good quality Of Chicas'
meat which Is to be eaten by English
men they are equally necessary to In
sure the good quality Of Chicago mea
which IL to be eaten In Chicago. Il
foreigners IRE deserving Of protection
the people OF Chicago are also. The,
will not get the same degree OF pro
lection unless the local inspection !
us good as the Federal inspection.
"rhere will be an attempt to wor
of on Chicago consumers inferior meat
which cannot be marketed elsewhere
Many of the smaller packers who hav
no outside trade will not maintain
high standard Of cleanliness In the,
establishments unless they are force
to. There Is need Of vlgllant municlpt
inspection to keep this city from b.
coming Il dumping ground for poor me'
and to enforce. sanitary regulations
packing houses which are outside II
scope of Federal supervision"
. What an awful fuss the daily new
capers make over the insurance Ssa
dais! And yet not one person In 1000
affected by them. Yet the daily new
papers have nothing to say against Il
, Beef Trust. which robs every ma
: woman aud child In the cOmmuni
every day.
The workingman and every otn
man for that matter II entitled to pu
food and pure medicine. a gOvernme
that does not protect man and b
family In these particulars deserves
he Overthrown. The Beef Trust mu
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The Beef Trust IL going 10 cOntI
the grazing business rs well as I
rest of the cattle trade. II IL acqu
ing title to millions of acres Of la
In Colorado for the purpose of ra
4 ing cattle.
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The number, of cattle afflicted wi
tuberculosis IL said to be very lar.
The report of the Chicago Health !