Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04
It Floods Chicago with Lumpy Jaw
Cattle and the Authorities
Do Nothing.
This City the Dumping Ground for
All the Bad Cattle in the
West.

Does the Meat Inspection law pro.
tect the foreigner?
It certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
Chicago IL revellng In feast OF
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is In force. but, SO far Us Chicago II
concerned, It Is dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This Is rs far as the Federal author.
ity can 20.
1t cannot interfere with local condi.
lions.
These are wholly under the control
Of the local government and the local
government believes that when tho
tubercular parts OF the beef and the
lumpy Jaw or cancerous parts Of the
beef are cut out. that the rest Of the
carcass Is good to eat
So thousands Of Chicagoans are eat.
Ing lumpy Jaw cattle every day. IN
bllssful ignorance of the awful facts
md the Beef Trust 10 getting richer
than ever BY purveyins bad food to the
people.
The most radical legislation 10 nsces'
sary to obliterate this evil and tht
people will get Il when they wake W
and realize the terrible danger that
constantly menaces themselves and
their families under present conditions
Speaking Of the seriousness Of the
matter. the Chicago Tribune In q ~.
Gently printed editorial declared:
"The Health Department should at
once enact and enforce the regulations
which have been prepared BY the De.
partment Of Agriculture.
III those regulations are necessary
to Insure the good quality Of Chicago
meat whicA 10 to be eaten BY English
men they are equally necessary to In
sure the good quality Of Chicago meat
which 10 to b eaten IN Chicago. II
foreigners are deserving Of protection
the people Of Chicago are also. They
will not get the same degree Of pro-
lection unless the local inspection Il
a. good 20 the Federal inspection.
'.There will be an attempt to work
OF on Chicago consumers inferior meats
which cannot be marketed elsewhere
Many Of the smaller packers who have
no outside trade will not maintain Z
high standard Of cleanliness In the;l
establishments unless they are forced
to. There 10 need Of vigilant municipal
inspection to keep this city from be-
coming a dumping ground for poor meat
and to enforce sanitary regulations Ia
packing houses which are outside thu
scope Of Federal supervision"
President Roosevelt and the member,
Of Congress first heard about the Bee
Trust horrors from the Eagle In No
vember, 1905, and they have heard
more every week since then.
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The Beef Trust slaughter houses arr
like morgues. The Beef Trust mag
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In magazine articles. OF course thes'
slaughter joints are cleanly. They
have to be. They are sanitary In near
~ every respect. The only unsanl
tary things about the Trust slaughtel
houses are the cancer0us cattle, thu
tuberculosis cows and the trichini
hogs. The surroundings have to b'
kept clearly. like all buildings devot
ed to the care of cadavers. Even thu
embalmed beef turned out by thu
Trust Ia sanitary-fr0m an embalmer'i
standpoint.
One hundred and sixteen articles pro
duced by the Beef Trust In Chicago
have been examined and condemned BY
the honest pure food commissioner o.
tile State Of North Dakota. Every On(