Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-16

people In ignorance Of true. but awful,
conditions which menace their health.
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The Illinois Legislature should In.
vcstigatc the Beef Trust thoroughly
this winter.
Chicago Is the headquarters Of this
nefariOus Trust, and therefore Illinois
Ii more Interested In the subject than
any other state.
That is. Illinois ought to he more
interested In the subject.
But while Kentucky and North Da.
kota and Pennsylvania and Vermont
and other States, through their pure
food departments, have adopted drastic
measures against the Beef Trust pol.
sons, Illinois has rested supine.
The Legislature can ascertain from
the pure food commissioners Of Ken.
lucky ana North Dakota, what the
lawyers OF the Beef Trust promised to
do Ia those States, II given another
chance.
The Legislature can also ascertain
what the Reef Trust Is not required to
do in Illinois.
Tuberculosis, cancer and append.
citis. all directly traceable to Beef
Trust products, are on the increase.
The now Government inspection law
does nothing for the people Of Illinois.
IL tuberculosis any better for the
people this year than 1t was last year:
In another column will be found OK.
tracts from the Health Department I'M.
nual report and weekly bulletins. DO
you think that In the face Of these doc.
uments and the facts they contain that
the city can refuse to continue the In.
spection and condemnation Of tubcr.
culosis and cancerous cattle ut the
Stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
tor culinary use out Of hogs that die
Of cholera?
How many thousands Of carcases
have the city inspectors condemned that
we're found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar.
eives ut the Stock Yards at night
come from9.
How many condemned hogs have been
sold N mesa pork
10 II, or IL It not 80, that some of
the cattle condemned by city inspec-
tors have been found with their whole
lnsides one mass If corruption?
10 It not true that the butchers nj
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting contagion them.
selves?
Ia 1t true that many canned cattle
are now killed outside the city and their
carcases shipped In with tumors and
cancers still attached?
Why do Kansas City and other
points ship their tuberculous, lumpy.
jawed and cancer cattle to Chicago?
Why Is 1t that diseased cattle can.
not DO shipped TO any point east Of
Chicago?
Why Is II, and by whose orders was
It that after the city inspectors had
condemned 40 lumpy-jawed cattle
that they were released?
by whose orders was 1t done?
Is there another city besides Chi.
cag0 that will even allow a lumpy-
jawed "critter'' to enter It?
IL It not true that In st. Louis each
lumpy-jawed beast means a lne of
$500, aud that In Toronto, Canada, the
beast and even Its hide are destroyed?
Pork for Great Britain Is never OK.
amined for trichina.
Hence the following figures may be
interesting:
In 1904 Great Britain imported from
the United States 7,57G45O pounds of
canned pork. valued at $770,46S, and
$500. G51 pounds Of fresh pork, valued
at 81. COOS
In 1904 Germany imported from the
United States 4S,1OO pounds Of canned
pork, valued Mt "a, 1885 and NO FRESH