Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-23

that inspection BY the city Of all food
products IL Of untold value. not only
from a financial but from q sanitary
and hygIenic standpoint"
1.-THE following will show how neces.
sary city inspection II at the Union
Stock Yards:
1.-THE city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
ERNMENT INSPECTION:
1926 cattle, cause, actinOmycosls.
"O7 cattle. cause. emaciation.
"?4 cattle. cause, tuberculosis, evi.
dence Of disease having been trimmed
out.
"18 cattle, cause. 'd0wners.'
"?7 sheep. cause, pneumonia.
''O4 hogs, cause, pyaemia and tubercu.
loels.
"47.72O pounds Of cut meats shipped
from 1t. Louis. Omaha, ETC., for can.
ming. This meat was sour and Shiny"
The discovery Of tons Of rotten
canned goods and decayeti material In.
tended for food In the possession OF
Chicago business houses, hears out the
Eagles declaration made some time
ago that Chicago business associations
deplOred the attacks on the Beef Trust
because they were just 40 guilty them
selves.
The Beef Trust can poison the pro.
pie; the railroad trusts slaughter the
people and the theatrical trust roast
the people. But the Milk Fed Press
views the situation with cOmplacsncy
because Of MIX Fed ads; Transports.
tion courtesies and theatrical passes
with the privilege Of getting acquaint
I'd with IN actor or two.
Some OF the fellows who are ad.
vertising cattle cars, electric cars and
other wonderful improvements and
who offer the stock Of same for sale
at fabulously low figures. should be
looked after by the police. There are
too many Of them ut large In Chicago
to-day.
The Beef Trust mas caused Q big
raise In the price Of shoes. The o..
hged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market. which Con.
gress closed practically for the benefit
Of the bssf trust By clapping duty Of
ID per cent id vaiorem ON foreign
hides. The alleged heef trust accord
Ing to Associated Press dispatches.
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust nxes
now the cost Of the leather. the raw
material out Of which shoes are made,
aud hence II controls both the prices
OF shoes In the domestic market and
In the export shoe trade, built up ",
great expense By our shoe manufac-
turers.
Furthermore, II 10 common knowl
edge that the domestic price Of butter.
eggs, butterins. dressed poultry. the
grains. fruits, vegetables. apples. pota
toes and probably other foods ID resu.
lated largely BY the same trust OF cor
pOrations.
This ID logical and unavoidable NJ
present. II u due In part b special
privileges Of lower rates In the ship
ping. private refrigerator lines. im
mense grain elevators and cOld-storage
plants scattered at the strategic points
aud In part, no doubt, to the sheer
brutal force Of unlimited millions Oi
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 ut 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
cag0 Health Department which 1t pub
fishes, all reference to the condemna'