Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-09
people In Ignorance Of true. but awful,
conditions which menace their health.


conditions which menace their health.
The Illinois Legislature should In
vcstigate the Beef Trust thoroughly
this winter.
Chicago Is the headquarters Of this
ncfarlous 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.
hut while Kentucky and North Da.
kota and Pennsylvania aud Vermont
aud other States. through their pure
food departments. have adopted drastic
measures against the Beef Trust pol.
sons, Illinois has rested supine.
The Legislature Gun 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.
cl,ls. all directly traccnble 10 Beef
Trust products. are on the Increase.
The now Government Inspection law
does nothing for the people of Illinois.
" tuberculosis any better for the
@Ople this year than It was last year;
In another column will be found OK.
'rncts from the Health Department nm
iual report ana weekly bulletins. DO
yOu think that In the face Of these doc
iinents AMI the facts they contain thu,
the city can refuse to continue the In,
>pectiOn aud condemnation Of tubcr.
.ulOsis and generous cattle Mt the
stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
Tor culinary use out Of hogs that die
Il cholera?
How many thousands Of carcases
nave the city inspectors condemned that
xere found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does NIL tho meat that ar.
rives ut the Stock Yards at night
Olne frOmy
How many condemned hogs lave been
sOid ~ nicss pork:
10 II. or Ii II not no, that some Of
the cattle condemned by city ,nsI,ec.
tors have been found with their whole
'nsides one mass If corruption?
Ia II not true that the butchers nj
che yards ure afraid to cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting c0ntaglOn them.
.elvesY
IL 1t true that many canned cattle
tre now killed outside the city and their
arcases shipped In with tun,ors and
'ancers still attached?
Why do Kansas City and other
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy.
lawed ana cancer cattle to Chicago?
Why Is It that diseased cattle can.
not be shipped to any point east Of
Chicago?
Why is II. and by whose orders was
It that after the city inspectors had
condemned 10 lumpy-jawed cattle
that they were "released"2
by whose orders was II done?
10 there another city besides Chi.
cagO that will even allow lunlpy.
Iawed "critter' to enter It?
IL II not true that in st. Louis each
lumpy-jawed beast mems fine Of
$500. and that In Toronto. Canada, the
beast and even its hide are destroyed?
Pork for Great Britain is never OK.
amined for trichlna.
Hence the following figures may he
Interesting:
In 1904 Great Britain imported from
the United States 7,570,45O pounds OF
canned pork, valued ut $770,46S, and
1899. 65i pounds Of fresh pork. valued
ut $l,2C0,S55.
In 1904 Germany imported FROM the
United States 4S,100 pounds of canned
pork, valued at $4,s35 and NO FRESH