Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-05

that inspection by the city Of all food
products Is Of untold value. not only
from a financial but from sanitary
and hyglenic standpoint"
"Thc following will show how neccs.
sary city inspection Is at the Union
Stock Yards:
"The city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
EMINENT INSPECTION:
"125 cattle, cause, nctlnomycosls.
"O7 cattle. cause, emaciation.
''2i cattle. cause, tuberculosis. evi.
dence Of disease ha, Ing been trimmed
out.
40 cattle, cause, tlOwners.'
'27 sheep. cause. pneumonia.
''O4 hogs, cause, pyaemia and tubercu.
lOsis.
"47,72O pounds Of cut meats shipped
from 1t. Louis. Omaha. ETC., for can.
ming. This meat was sour and shiny"
The discovery Of tons Of rotten
canned goods and decayed material In.
tended for food In the possession OF
Chicago business houses. bears out the
Eagles declaration made some time
ago that Chicago business associations
deplOred the attacks Oh the Beef Trust
because they were just Us guilty them
selves.
The Beef Trust can poison the p,o.
pie; the railroad truss slaughter the
people and the theatrical trust roast
the people. But the Milk Fed Press
Views the situation with complacsncv
because OF MIX Fed ads. transporta
ton cOurtesles and theatrical passes
with the privilege OF getting acqualnt'
cd with IN actor or two.
Some of the fellows who are al.
vertising cattle cars. electric cars and
other wonderful improvements and
who offer the stock Of same for sale
ut fabulously low figures, should be
looked after by the police. There nre
too many of them at large In Chicago
today.
The Reef Trust has caused big
raise In the price Of shoes. The al
legged beef trust controls incidental!
the domestic hide market, which Con
gress closed practically for the benefit
Of the beef trust by clapping u duty OF
Is per cent I'D valorem on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust. accord
Ing to Associated Press dispatches
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust likes
now the cost of the leather, the raw
material out Of which shoes are made,
and hence II controls both the prices
Of shoes In the domestic market aud
In the export shoe trade, built up ~
great expense by our shoe manufac
turers.
Furthermore, 1t Is common knowl
edge that the domestic price OF butter,
eggs, butterlne, dressed poultry. the
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 M
present. 1t Is due In part 10 special
privileges of lower rates In the ship
ping. private refrigerator lines, I'm
mense grain elevators and cOld-storag 81
plants scattered ut the strategic points
and In part, no doubt, to the sheer
brutal force of unlimited millions OF
dollars; a power welded by few per
sons whom society does not hold per
sOnally responsible at present.
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The following from the Bulletin OF
the Health Department for month OF
May: "The meat inspectors ut the
stockyards condemned and destroyed q
total Of 4Sl,705 pounds Of beef. pork
veal and mutton"
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The Trust press of Chicago carefully
eliminates from the reports of the Chi
cago Health Department which 1t pub
fishes. all reference to the condemna
ton of tubercular and cancerou'
cattle at the Union Stock Yards. The
! aim of the Trust Dres0 L. y keen thu