Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-26

that inspection by the city Of all food
products Is Of untold value, not only
from financial but from sanitary
and hyglenic standpoint"
1.-THE following will show how neces.
sary city inspection Is ut the Union
Stock Yards:
"'rhe city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
EMINENT INSPECTION:
1926 cattle. cause, actlnomycosls.
'O7 cattle, cause. emaclatlOn.
''2i cattle, cause, tuberculosis. evil.
dencc Of disease having been trimmed
out.
"1G cattle, cause, 'dOwners.'
'27 sheep. cause. pneumonia.
'D4 hogs, cause, pyaemla and tubercu.
lOsis.
ATTIC pounds Of cut meats shipped
from st. Louis, Omaha, etc, for can.
ming. This meat was sour and shiny"
The discovery Of tons Of rotten
canned goods and decayed material I'm.
tended for food In the possession OF
Chicago business houses, bears out the
Eagles declaration made some time
ago that Chicago business associations
deplOred the attacks on the Beef Trust
because they were just as guilty them
selves.
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The Beef Trust can poison the pso.
pie; the railroad trusts slaughter the
people and the theatrical trust roast
the people. But the Milk Fed Press
Views the situation with complacencv
because Of MIX Fed ads. transporta.
ton courtesies and theatrical passes
with the privilege Of getting acqualnt
cd with IN actor or two.
Some Of the fellows who are nd.
vertising cattle cars. electric cars and
other wonderful improvements and
who offer the stock Of same for sale
ut fabulOusly low figures. should be
looked after by the police. There are
too many Of them at large In Chicago
today.
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The Reef Trust mas caused a big
raise In the price Of shoes. The al.
legged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market. which Con,
gress closed practically for the benefit
of the beef trust by clapping duty OF
Is per cent al valorem on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust. accord,
Ing to Associated Press dispatches,
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust fixes
now the cost Of the leather, the raw
material out Of which shoes are made,
ana hence II controls both the prices
Of shoes In the domestic market and
In the export shoe trade, built up u,
great expense by our shoe manufac.
turers.
Furthermore, 1t is common kn0wl.
edge that the domestic price OF butter.
eggs, butterine, dressed poultry. the
grains, fruits, vegetables. apples. pOta'
toes and probably other foods Is regu.
lated largely by the same trust Of cor,
porati0ns.
This IL logical and unavoidable AT
present 1t 10 due In part b special
privileges Of lower rates In the ship
ping. private refrigerator lines, I'm
mense grain elevators aud cold-storage
plants scattered at the strategic points
and In part, no doubt, to the sheer
brutal force OF unlimited millions OF
dollars; a power welded by few per
sons whom society does not hold per
sonally responsible at present.
The following from the Bulletin of
the Health Department for month of
May: '"rhe meat inspectors at the
stOckyards condemned and destroyed a
total Of 4Sl,705 pounds Of beef, pork,
veal and mutton"
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The Trust press of Chicago carefully
eliminates from the reports of the Chi,
cago Health Department which 1t pub.
fishes, all reference to the condemna.
tiOn of tubercular and cancerOus
cattle at the Union Rtnck Yards. The