Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-09
people In Ignorance Of true, but awful.
conditions which menace their health.

IWOpIe III ignorance Oh true, Dut uWIui'
conditions which menace their health.
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The Illinois Legislature should In.
vcstlgatc the Beef Trust thoroughly
this winter.
Chicago Is the headquarters OF this
nefariOus Trust, and therefore Illinois
IL more interested In the subject than
any other state.
That Is. Illinois ought to be more
Interested In the subject.
But while Kentucky and North Da.
kota and Pennsylvania and Vermont
and other states, through their pure
food departments, have adopted drastic
measures against the Beef Trust pol.
sons, Illinois has rested supine.
The Legislature cun ascertain from
the pure food commissioners Of KEN
lucky ana North Dakota. what the
lawyers Of the Beef Trust promised to
do In those States, II given another
chance.
The Legislature can also ascertain
what the Beef Trust Is not required to
do In Illinois.
Tuberculosis, cancer and append.
citls. all directly traccab!e to Beef
Trust products. are on the Increase.
The new Government inspection law
does nothing for the people OF Illinois.
Is tuberculosis any better for the
Jeople this year than 1t was last year!
In another column will be found OK.
tracts from the Health Department an,
dual report ana weekly bulletins. DO
you think that In the face Of these doc.
iments and the facts they contain that
the city can refuse to continue the In.
spectlOn and condemnation OF tuber.
culosis and cancerous cattle ut the
Stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
tor culinary use out Of hogs that die
II cholera?
How many thousands Of carcases
aave the city inspectors condemned that
we're found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
"ucSc uOcb uh Suc tucut TINT uC'
eives at the Stock Yards ut night
ONE fr0mT
How many condemned hogs have been
sold ~ niess pork!
IL II, or IL It not 20. that some OF
the cattle condemned by city inspec.
tors have been found with their whole
'nsides one mass NJ corruption?
Is Il not true that the butchers at
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting c0ntagion them.
selves?
Is II true that many canned cattle
are now killed outside the city and their
arcases shipped in with tumors AMI
ancers still attached?
Why do Kansas City and other
points shi. their tuberculous. lumpy.
lawed aud cancer cattle to Chicago?
Why IL 1t that diseased cattle can.
not be shipped TO any point east OF
Chicago?
Why Is It, and by whose orders was
It that after the city inspectors had
condemned TO lumpy-jawed cattle
that they We're "reeased"2
by whose orders was It done?
10 there another city besides Chi.
cago that will even allow a lumpy.
lawed "critter' to enter It?
Ia It not true that In st. Louis each
lumpy.jawed beast means a iine of
$500. and that In Toronto, Canada, the
beast and even its hide are destroyed?
All pork for Germany IL examined
carefully for trlchlna before exporting.
Pork for Great Britain Ia never OK.
amincd for trichina.
Hence the following figures NAV be
interesting:
In 1904 Great Britain imported from
the United States 7,570,45O pounds OF
canned pork, valued at $77O,4GS, and
13,000.65l pounds of fresh pork, valued
at $1,2O0.S55.
In 1904 Germany imported from the