Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-19

polling packers to print the date OF
the canning on the labels Of all camel
goods sold by them.
The fact that the Beef Trust fought
a proposed law to this effect. last year.
only goes to emphasize the necessity
that exists for one.
According to all accounts the canned
goods of the Beef Trust are bad enough
when comparatively new. without un.
loading on the public canned goods that
have been years In warehouse.
More than that. the government
should compel the packers to pay all
the expenses of meat inspection.
The government should also inspect
all meat In transit.
Lately the Beef Trust has been
branching out and gobbling up other
lines Of business.
1t controls the meat business.
1t controls the poultry trade.
1t controls the egg market.
1t controls the hide market.
1t controls the boot and shoe trade.
And lately 1t has stepped into the
control Of a large part Of the vegetable
market.
1t is the Beef Trust and the Beef
Trust alone that has made the cost
of living rs high rs 1t IL.
The Beef Trust buys cattle, swine
and sheep on the hoof for almost moth.
Ing.
II you will take the trouble to look
ut the market reports Of the daily
papers you will see that the trust pays
from sl.25 to 81 per 100 pounds for
GINNING cows This Is cent and a
quarter to two cents a pound. For
very high grade meat they pay as
high as five or six cents pound.
The trust utilities every portion Of the
CATTLE. hoofs. horns, intcstIncs, hide,
hair ana bones.
1t could AFFORD to sell the people
meat ut reasonable prices and make a
big profit Itself.
But II Is too hogsish to do this. 1t
has the American public BY the throat
and makes the American public pay
outrageous prices.
The following from the Chicago
Daily Journal market report for Oct.
10, 1907. Is fair sample Of what the
Beef Trust pays Tor cattle, per 100
pounds:
Prime TAT steers ....,.... 81. IJM 80
Good To choice steers ,.... iaOM 6I5
Medium 10 good steers 80. 6.75M $50
Common Ia medium steers. h.25m5.7O
Inferior killers ........... I.iOM 90
Good To choice cows ...... 5000 800
Medium COWS ............ 3.aOm3.SO
Common tn good cutters. .3.li5nr3.OO
Inferior To good Gamers .. 1,aOM lao
Prime heifcrs ............ -i.5O6iJ.75
Premium Ia good hcifcrs,., $500 Ito
Common Ia fair hclfcrs -. 3.OOmI.5O
Bologna bulls ............ 2.GO6r3. II
Fat butcher bulls ..,.....: l.GOm5.O0
Good 10 choice calves $50. 5000 S,a
Medium calves ........... G.I56f7.T
inferior heavy calves ..,.. 3OOm4.OU
Selected feeders ..,,...... i.5Om5!Nl
Fair To good feeders .,,... 4.3O6ii.+l
Medium feeders .......... 33OM Ia
Fair To good stOckcrs .., 35Om 3.S
Inferior light stockers go. 2lOM3,H
You will see IRON Tie above figure.
that the average price paid by thu
Beef Trust Is about 4 cents pound.
But do the people who have to pay
eXOrbltant prices for food get goot
food?
Let us look ut some of the record,
of the Chicago Health Department fol
a reply:
| IHe tolloWiuS tEom TIC ShiSNSs
Health Department Bulletin OF OctO
her %, 1905, speaks for Itself:
The city inspectors at the UniOr
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED by
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS
"They also condemned ana destroyed
3.O93 pounds Of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection ut thos'
places"
This shows the sort of government
inspection we have.
II a few Of the governmental Omis
sions are rectified how many thous
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe an(
America are ut this moment harborini
Cuts OF meat from tuberculosis cattle
/ IA etc~e report Of the Health Com
la.A...sAes sSoeks Of meat hanging II
the coolers Of trust houses. with tuber