Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-23
It Floods Chicago with Lumpy Jaw
Cattle and the Authorities
Do Nothing.
This City the Dumping Ground for
All the Bad Cattle in the
West.

Does the Meat Inspection law pro.
tect the foreigner?
1t certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
Chicago is reveling In n feast Of
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is in force. but, so far as Chicago IL
concerned. 1t Is a dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This Is as far as the Federal author.
ity can 90.
II cannot interfere with local condi.
tons.
These are wholly under the control
of the local government and the local
government believes that when the
| tubercular parts Of the beef and the
lumpy Jaw or cancerous parts of the
beef are cut out. that the rest of the
carcass Is good to eat.
So thousands Of Chicagoans are eat.
Ing lumpy Jaw cattle every day. n
blissful ignorance of the awful facts
and the Beef Trust IL getting richer
than ever by purveying bad food TO the
people.
The most radical legislation IL neces.
sary to obliterate this evil and the
people will get II when they wake up
and realize the terrible danger that
constantly menaces themselves and
their families under present conditions.
Speaking Of the supineness Of the
Chicago Health Department In this
matter, the Chicago Tribune In a re.
Gently printed editorial declared:
1.-THE Health Department should at
once enact and enforce the regulations
which have been prepared by the De
partment Of Agriculture.
III those regulations are necessary
to insure the good quality Of Chicago
meat which 10 to be eaten by English.
men they are equally necessary to In
sure the good quality Of Chicago meat
which IL to be eaten In Chicago. II
foreigners are deserving Of protection
the people OF Chicago are also. They
will not get the same degree Of pro.
lection unless the local inspection Is
rs good as the Federal inspection.
There will be an attempt to work
of on Chicago consumers inferior meats
which cannot he marketed elsewhere
Many Of the smaller packers who have
no outside trade will not maintain q
high standard Of cleanliness In the;I
establishments unless they are forced
to. There Is need Of vigilant municipal
inspection to keep this city from be-
coming dumping ground for poor meat
and to enforce sanitary regulations 10
packing houses which are outside thu
scope Of Federal supervision"
What an awful fuss the daily nsws
Mpers make over the insurance Ssau
dals! And yet not one person In 1000 u
affected by them. Yet the daily news
papers have nothing to say against thu
Beef Trust. which rObs every man
woman aud child In the community
every day.
The wOrkingman and every OtneI
man for that matter Ii entitled to pur'
food and pure medicine. A government
that does not protect man and bill
family In these particulars deserves Il
be overthrown. The Beef Trust mus
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The Beef Trust IL going to contro
the grazing business as we'll AZ tn
rest of the cattle trade. 1t Ia acquiE
ing title to millions Of acres OF Liant
In Colorado for the purpose Of raia
Ing cattle.
The number of cattle afflicted wit
tuberculosis IL said to be very large
The report Of the Chicago Health Dc