Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-05
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How DO we know that sufficient pre.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know,
They inform us that what soes on
behind the walls Of their plants n
their own affair; that is, their busi.
ness; they will manage II AZ they 80
ut. Whose affair is II, then, II the
nation cats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned by trIchinae, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not no dull %
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perils involved in the meth.
DDS OF this monopoly. and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the Unitsd
States Is supposed to keep an insp,stor
upon meat intended for export and 70
place upon It an official stamp certify.
Ing TINT It Is At Tor food.
II, then, these are the methods IN
regard to export beef, about which
there Ii nominal inspection, what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there is no inspection at allf
whywas the Beef Trust allowed 10 10
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent IT.
Why are the laws ipcrt against this
criminal organisation3 Why 10 q man
sent to prison for I've years for forg.
Ing q fve-dollar check and these men
90 free for swindling q nationf
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content to have our
food prepared for 10 In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind Ger.
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryf
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
A to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis and the cancer, put a stop to pri.
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugb.
terlng Of food animals be done By the
State In the light Of day. without any
Of this dark lantern business, ON squsI
terms for all. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaugh.
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 To
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has a right
to saved profits that he makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State win
not allow you to 90 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, although each may be strlctlS
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger, smallpox and scarlet fever arc
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera II can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, a million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest housee
for public safety It can provide slauRh.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case IL at least a. clear
% In the other.
I0HA
Health Department Bulletin, Dee.
23, 1905:
AT the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned aud de.
stroyed:
"2sOA cattle. weighing l4s,sa4
pounds:
1855 hogs, weighing 4O,475 pounds.
Cut meats weighing 5.O24 pounds.
10 calves, weighing s55 pounds.
" sheep, weighing 900 pounds.
"Twenty-One cattle, nine hogs and
b,O24 pounds cut meats were CON.
demned after Oassing) government In
spectlon."
Health Department Bulletin. Novem.
ber 20, 1905:
"Condemnations Of unit food durIns
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, 8s,70S
pounds OF cattle. hogs, calves and sheen
AT retail markets 88,730 pounds Of
beef, ham and poultry"
The Beef Trust will be stopped, no
mtter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
OF experts" try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago, according to tho
Chicago Health Department, the ma.
|ority Of the deaths In Chicago were
among Infants. Now, thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority Of ~
Sanple who die are adults. the averaSs