Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-26
It Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed Upol
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Attempt
to Make It Pay Costs Of Inspection
Now 1T Has Raised the Price of the Food Products
the Country and Its Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record

How do we know that suflcIent prs.
cautions arc taken to prevent contsmi.
nationf
How do the trust gentlemen know /,
They inform us that what soes On
behind the walls Of their plants n
thelr own affair; that is, their bust.
ness they will manage II az they see
mt. Whose affair is II, then, Il tho
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned by trichinae, II cancer In.
creases7
Other countries are not 40 dull -
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very well the
monstrous perils involved in the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and, therefore.
try to exclude American meats,
To quiet their objections the Unit.t,
states ls supposed to keep an insp.ctor
upon meat Intended for export and 70
place upon 1t an official stamp certify.
Ing that It Is ft tor food.
II. then, these are the methods IN
regard to export beef. about which
there is nominal inspection, what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, ON
which there Is no inspection ut allf
Whywas the Beef Trust allowed to 20
on year after year violating the law
ana no attempt made to prevent ~
Why IRE the laws inert against this
criminal organization' Why is man
sent to prison for five years for fore.
Ing hvc-dOllnr check and these men
30 free for swindllng q natlons
Why do we contribute our dollar.
year after year to swell unnecessary
lOartls2
why are We content to have ouP
food prepared for 10 In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind cer.
ta'nIy suggest fraud and treachsey3
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
Al to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubsrcu.
'osis ana the cancer, put q stop 10 pri.
vate slaughtering. Let oil the slsugh.
tering Of food animals be done b. the
state In the light Of day, without any
or this dark lantern business, on eousp
terms for oil. There are very few
private slaughter houses In EnslanA
The cities and towns run their slsusu.
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 Il comes 10
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has q rieht
to saved profits that be makes by
spreading disease. We have zone too
far on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back bcause some sentlemaus
profits are threatened. The State WIN
not allow you to 60 around With smalI.
p0x or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each. may be strictIS
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 ont
cancer, million times worse than
cholera. II It can provide pest bousee
for public safety II can provide slaush.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case is ut least as clear
as In the other.
The Eagles prediction that the Reef
trust would raise the price Of food
on the people has been fulfilled. The
action OF the packers Is expected to
arouse particularly those members of
Congress who have Insisted that the
packers should pay the cost of the
meat inspection, for which Congress-
now approprlates $3.OOO,OOO annually.
One of the arguments used against this
proposal has been the allegation that
the packers would at once shift the
cost OF the inspection to the cattle
raisers.
Now that the packers propose to
shift the loss from condemned car.
casses while ut the same time they
profit by the advertisement Of the gov
ernment guaranty Of the wholesome.
ness OF their products the proponents,
Df the plan to make them pay for the
government inspection Insist they have
IN argument. Senators BeverIdge, OF
Indiana. and Galllnger. of NV Hamp-
shire. have already promised to renew
The aght In the next Congress-
~a
Congress should ut once add to the
neat inspection law these three pro-
'islOns:
PACKERS should DO obliged to
'ear all the expense attached to In.
pectiOn.
2-Packers should be obliged to.
'rlnt date OF canning on he labels Of
II canned goods.
3-All meat In transit should be In
pected by the g0vernmspk