Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-15

Does the Meat Inspection law pro.
tect the foreigner?
1t certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
Chicago Is revelIng In a feast Of
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is In force. but, so far MS Chicago II
concerned. Il Is dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export aud for
meat shipped to other States.
This IL rs far as the Federal author.
Ity Gun 20.
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
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 Chicagoans are eat.
Ing lumpy jaw cattle every day, IN
blissful ignorance Of the awful facts
und the Beef Trust Is getting richer
than ever by purveying bad food to the
people.
The most radical legislation Is neccs.
sary to obliterate 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 a re.
Gently printed editorial declared:
"The Health Department should at
once enact ana enforce the regulations
which have been prepared by the De-
partment Of Agriculture.
"lf 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 Il 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 Il
rs good Us the Federal inspection.
~rhere will be 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 0
high standard Of cleanliness In their
Establishments unless they are forced
to. There is need Of vigilant municipal
Inspection to keep this city from be-
coming a dumping ground for poor meat
and to enforce sanitary regulations In
packing houses which are outside the
scope Of Federal supervision"
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President Roosevelt and the member
Of Congress FIRST heard about the Beef
Trust horrors from the Eagle In No
vember, 1905, and they have heard
more every week since then.
The Beef Trust slaughter houses are
like MOrgues. The Beef Trust mag.
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In magazine articles. OF course these
slaughter Joints are clearly. They
have to be. They are sanitary In near
~ every respect The only unsani
tary things about the Trust slaughter
houses are the cancerOus cattle. the
tuberculosis cows aud the trlchlna
hogs. The surroundings have sto be
kept clearly. like all buildings devot.
ed to the care of cadavers. Even the
embalmed beef turned out by the
Trust Is sanitary-from an embalmer's
standpoint.
One hundred and sixteen articles pro.
duced by the Beef Trust In Chicago
have been examined and condemned BY
the honest pure food commissioner Of
the State Of North Dakota. Every one
IT them was condemned because II
contained poison ana was therefore
detrimental to the public health. Lick
Of space alone prohibits us from print
Ing the list and the names Of the
houses shipping the stun.
~
The Reef Trust mas caused q biz
raise In the price of shoes. The al
legged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market. which Con
gress closed practically for the bench,
of the beef trust by clapping duty Of
IS per cent nd val0rem ON foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust, accord
ing to Associated Press dispatches
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust fixei
now the cost OF the leather, the raw
material out Of which shoes are made
and hence II controls both the price,
OF shoes In the domestic market ant
In the export shoe trade, built up a,
great expense by our shoe manufac
turers.
Furthermore, 1t Is common knowl
edge that the domestic price of butter
eggs, butterine, dressed poultry, thu
grains, fruits, vegetables, apples, pOta
toes and probably other foods is regu
lated largely by the same trust of cor
pOratiOns.
This Is logical and unavoidable Al
present. 1t IL due In part 10 specia
privileges OF lower rates In the ship