Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-02
people In ignorance of true, but awful.
conditions which menace their health.

conditions which menace their health.
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The Illinois Legislature should In
vcstigate the Beef Trust thoroughly
this winter.
Chicago Is the headquarters OF this
nefarious Trust, and therefore Illinois
Is 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 suplne.
The Legislature can 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.
cltls. all directly traccable to Beef
Trust products. ARE on the increase.
The new Government inspection law
does nothing for the people of Illinois.
IL tuberculosis any better for the
oeople this year than 1t was last year;
In another column will be found OK.
,rncts from the Health Department an.
iual report and weekly bulletins. DO
sou think that In the face Of these doc
lments ana the facts they contain that
the city can refuse to continue the In
spection 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
" cholera?
How many thousands Of cnrcases
nave the city inspectors condemned that
were found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar.
rives mt the Stock Yards ut night
.Ome from2
How many condemned hogs have been
cold as niess pork!
Is II, or IL 1t not 50, that some Of
the cattle condemned by city inspcc.
tors have been found with their whole
lnsides one mass If corruption?
IL It not true that the butchers ut
the yards IRE afraid to cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting contaglon them.
selves?
Is II true that many canned cattle
are now killed outside the city and their
.arcases shipped In with tumOrs and
.ancers still attached?
Why do Kansas city and Other
points ship their tuberculOus, lumpy
jawed and cancer cattle to Chicago?
Why IL 1t that diseased cattle can
not be shipped TO any point east OF
Chicago?
Why Ii II, and by whose orders wal
It that after the city inspectors hat
condemned 40 lumpy-jawed cattl,
that they were "released"?
By whose orders was It done?
Is there another city besides Chi
cago that will even allow lumpy
jawed "critter" to enter It?
Is 1t not true that in st. Louis eacl
lumpy-jawed beast means a fine o.
$500, and that In Toronto, Canada, thu
beast and even Its hide are destroyed
Pork for Great Britain Is never OK
amined for trichina.
Hence the following figures may b,
interesting:
In 1904 Great Britain imported from
the United States 7,576,45O pounds O
canned pork, valued at $77O,4GS, an,
l3,080,651 pounds Of fresh pork, value,
at 81, o0O,S55.
In 1904 Germany imported from tn
United States 4S1OO pounds of came,
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