Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27
1T Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed Upon
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Attempt
to Make It Pay Costs Of Inspection
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products of
the Country and It's Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record.

How do We know that SUFFICIENT pre.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
nation7
How do the trust gentlemen know
They inform Us that what. goes On
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that ID, their busi.
ness; they will manage II a. they -
At. Whose affair Ii II, then, II The
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned BY trlchinae, II cancer In.
creases2
Other countries are not 10 dull -
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous pcrlls involved In the meth
obs Of this monopoly. and, therefore,
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the Unitsd
Suites Is supposed to keep ap insp3ctoe
upon meat intended for export and 10
place upon It an official stamp certify.
Ing that II II flt Tor food.
If, then, these IRE the methods IN
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what DO
YOU suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there Is no inspection at ailf
whywas the Beef Trust allowed to %
on year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent ~
Why IRE the laws inert against this
criminal organizntion2 Why IL a man
sent to prison for five years for forg.
Ing fvc.dollar check and these men
90 free for swindling nation3
Why do we contribute our dollars
year aftsr year to swell unnecessary
h0artls7
Why are we content TO have our
food prepared for 10 In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind CT.
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryf
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies IRE simple enough.
As to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis and the cancer. put stop to pr.
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugh.
tcring Of food animals be done by The
state In the light Of dry. without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for oil. 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 DO poisoned In their meat
And we need not worry about the OBJ
lection that publicly owned slauRhtee
houses are an invasion of the private
rights Of business. When II comes 70
life and death there are no private
rights OF business. No man has q right
to saved profits that 10 makes By
spreading disease. We have gone too
fur ON the road to public sanitation 10
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State win
not allow you to 20 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each may be Strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger. smallpox and scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera Il can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, q million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety It can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And il
duty In the one case is at least a. clear
as In the other.
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The Eagles prediction that the Reef
Trust would raise the price OF food
Oh the people has been fulfilled. The
action of the packers Is expected to
arouse particularly those members Of
Congress who have Insisted that the
packers should pay the cost OF tho
meat inspection, for which Congress
now approprlates S3,00O,OOO annually.
One of the arguments used against this
proposal has been the allegation that
the packers would ut once shift the
cost OF the inspection to the cattle
ralsers.
Now that the packers propose 10
shift the loss from condemned car
casses while ut the same time they
profit by the advertisement of the gov.
ernment guaranty of the wholesome
ness of their products the proponents
of the plan to make them pay for ths
government inspection insist they have
an argument. Senators Beverldge, Of
Indiana, and Galllnger, of New Hamp.
shire, have already promised to renew
the fight In the next Congress.
Congress should ut once add to the
meat inspection law these three pro.
visions:
Hackers should be obliged to
bear all the expense attached to In
spection.
2--Paclers should BIO obliged to
print date Of canning on the labels of
all canned goods.
3--All meat in transit should be In
spected By the government.