The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-28
Inspector Declares Farmers
Are More to Be Feared
Than the Butchers.
SYSTEM CITY MAY GET.
TON is SECURED 1T is PRoBA.
BILE THAT FOUR MEN WILL BE
ASSIGNED HERE.

| In view OF the TACT that the citizens
o. this city are demanding govern
ment inspection for all meats sold
and consumed in Richmond. brought
about by the sickening discoveries
| Of tuberculosis cattle in Wayne coun-
| ty; cattle which were brought to the
market and slaughtering pens to be
butchered and consumed by the peo-
pie of this city, but which were caught
in time by DR.. Waggoner, government
inspector, his remarks along the line
of tuberculosis are particularly inter
esting. This disease is considered
the most dangerous that is found in
cattle and other animals of the United
States and from a pure food stand
point should be fought with might and
main, not only by the people, but by
the stock owners, dealers and breed
erS themselves. In speaking on the
matter, DR.. Waggoner said:
Subject not Appreciated.
There are few if any subjects con-
nected with animal husbandry upon
which more has been written and pub
lished within recent years than tu-
tivity, in the discussion and investi-
CATION of the disease, there are few
subjects upon which there is SO great
a difference of opinion. and there
is none whose Importance is SO in
adequately appreciated. 1t is unfortu-
nate that in the first attempt to con-
troll the disease in the United States,
measures were adopted by some state
which were so radical and
harsh that they aroused the anita
gonism OF the cattle owners, those
persons who first of all should have
been in sympathy with the movement
The question of the suppression of tu-
berculosis and the protection
osis cattle. is not question of senti-
nent, but one of fact and it should be
examined as a business proposition.
Entire Community Affected.
THE breeders of cattle have found I
hat untold losses have resulted from /
he ravages of disease. They have I
lad vast herds of fine and valuable /
'nimals destroyed through tubercu !
osis. Besides the influence upon the
.erds and the owners of the animals.
has an influence upon the
A herd of animals is not /
red for the use of the owner but the
object is to produce and sell
airy products, meat and stock ami
lals to other people. Is it right to sell
tuberculosis animal to go into an
Their owners herd when the disease is
kelly to spread and to damage that
erd? Is it right to sell tuberculosis
attic and hogs for slaughter, when we
now that many of these animals are
in establishments where
here is no inspection and that dis
ased carcasses may consequently be
sed for human food? Is it right to
ell the milk from tuberculosis cat
e, knowing that it may. be used for
he nourishment of the most delicate
nildren, when such milk frequently
ontains tuberculosis bacillus
Not Through the Lungs.
THE lungs of the human are the
oints to which the tuberculosis bac
Ii generally make their way and it J
thus that many people, and even d
aysicians are inclined to think they Z
e breathed into the lungs from the
lst and other sources I do believe
lis is the case as experiments have v
nded to show that the ingestion of 7