Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09

lit food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats rs show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa.
cilitles for microscopic laboratory ex.
animation have not yet been restored.
THE Union Stock Yards city inspec.
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
Of beef carcasses, 3 hogs and cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
'.rhe total stock yards condemnation
amounted to 170.S0S pounds"
Speaking Of the $685., 600 pounds Of
food condemned In 1905 by Chicago
Health Department inspectors. DR.. q.
]. Whalen. Health Commissioner, says
In his annual report:
EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE
MEATS WERE CONDEMNED on
ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS
commenting upon this condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Whalen),
American Medicine December %.
says: One stands aghast ut the crlml.
nal cupldity which will induce men to
attempt to sell such dangerous foods to
an unsuspecting community. 1t Is now
In order to 60 step farther and lind
out who Is responsible for this moral
obliqulty.
"It IL well known that combinations
Of the larger meat dealers have exist
cd In the past to the end Of raising
the price OF food stuffs beyond the point
to which healthy competition would re-
duce them. The cutlery has always been
In protest against the increased cost
Of living. but here for the first time
are the combinations which control the
food supply, brought into direct rela.
ton to the public health.
ut IL high time that this matter
be taken out of the class OF minor Of
lenses AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
In war, when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. II Is the height Of dis
honor-even murder-to poison the
water supply of a country. Is 1t any
better to poison the food supply? 1t
Is time that the public mind should
develop conscience in this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De-
partment Bulletin, November 4, 1908 :
'The total amount of meats con-
demned during the period was l,343,3i3
pounds. or the principal causes OF
condemnation, So PER CENT WERE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS, II per cent for
MISUNDERSTANDING jaw--and 4 per
cent for hog cholera
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Chicago Is at the mercy Of the Beef
Trust. The Illinois legislature must
come 10 her rescue.
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The Government meat law, passed to
oll!ge the packers, In leu OF law
which would please the people, fools
| nobody,
Senator Beverldge OF Indiana, an
able ana honest man, rlddled the new
meat law in a great speech recently.
He declared that the law ought to
be amended SO as to make the pack
crs and not the Government pay for
the inspection, besides being vitality
amended in number OF other ways
In the meantime the people of the
world are slowly discovering, despite
the concealments Of the subsidized
American press, that the present sys-
| ten Is a delusion and a snare. In this
connection, the following dispatch from
Paris, France, explains itself:
paris, Nov. 20.--Omlssion OF the
microscopic examination of pork from
the new American meat inspection reg
ulations has resulted In preliminary
decision on the part OF the French
customs authorities barring American
ham. bacon, canned pork, etc.
after long diplomatic negotiations
several years ago France agreed to
admit American pork on government