Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-30
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 sufficient ORE.
cautions arc taken to prevent contsml.
nation3
How do the trust gentlemen knowp
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that Ia, their busi.
ness; they will manage II a. they ~
at. Whose affair ID II, then, II the
nation cats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned BY trlchinae, II cancer In
creases3
Other countries are not 10 dull -
,, we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perils involved in the meth.
ods Of this monopoly, and, therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the United
Stntes In supposed to keep m insp>.toe
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon II an official stamp certify.
Ing TINT II is At Cor food.
If. then. these are the methods In
| sSS"tu 7" CNpott uscis uuOuS WuiCO
there Is nominal inspection. what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption. on
which there Is no inspection at alli
Why was the Beef Trust allowed to 20
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent ~
Why IRE the laws inert against this
criminal Organixationf Why Ii . man
sent to prison for five years for forg.
Ing five-dollar check aud these men
60 free for swindlins a nation7
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
lloartis?
Why are we content 70 have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind cee.
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryi
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
As to the ''lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis and the cancer, put stop to pri-
vate slaughtering. 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 equat
terms for oil. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaugh-
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 II comes to
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has right
to saved profits that be makes By
spreading disease. We have gone too
far ON the road to public sanitation TO
turn back because some gentlemau'a
profits are threatened. The State will
not allow you to 60 around with small.
pox 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 Il can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, q million times w0rse than
cholera. II Il can provide pest houses
for public safety It can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. Aud Ito
duty In the one case 10 at least % clear
40 In the other.
I04
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%, 1905:
AT the Union Stock Yards tho fol.
lowing have been condemned aud dc.
stroyed:
"2sOA cattle. Weighing l4s.s2s
pounds:
1850 hogs. weighing 4O.475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5,024 pounds.
"16 calves. weighing $50 pounds.
~ sheep. weighing 280 pounds.
"Twenty-one cattle, nine hogs and
6.024 pounds cut meats were con,
: demned after passinO government In
. specti0n."
Health Department Bulletin. Novsu-
ber 25, 1905:
"Condemnations Of unnt food durins
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards. 80,7aS
. pounds Of cattle, hogs. calves aud sheep.
AT retail markets 68.7S0 pounds Of
. beet. ham and poultry"
. ~
: The Beef Trust will be stopped. M
matter how hard the Chicago trus,
press and fake committees composed
Q Of experts try to save 1t.
. Thirty years ago. according to thl
= Chicago Health Department, the ma
jority Of the deaths In Chicago wert
. among infants. Now. thanks to thu
Reef Trust, the great majority Of tn
? panple who die are adults, the averaeI
! age Of the deceased having increased
: from Infancy In 1876 to 81 years 4
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