Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-09
FOR the Past Three Years. Carefully Collected from Official
Reports and Press kilograms, Furnish Pure Food
Data for the Campaign of 1908

4 1--WE note copy Of your letter oi
september 18th. saying that Armour
h Co.'S OlcO was found to contain no
racic acid. and you have reported thu
same to the commonwealth attorney
beg to say that we have given instruc
ttOns to the oleOmargnrlne department,
to cease using any prcscrvativcs Il
they are using IT,"
~ Armour h Go. have nj
ready begun the manufacture Of sau
sagc for Kentucky at Louisville. Will,
nm agent Of Swift Il Co. states that hIs
firm have Installed a separate de-
partment In the Chicago plant In or
der TO make sausage without boracit
acid FOR KENTUCKY AND PENN
SYLvANIA."
The following Associated Press dis.
patch appeared In the Chicago daily
papers of October ~. 1906:
| Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. II, 1OO6.--On
the charge that Armour X Co. have
been selling meat preserved by boriC
acid to local consumers State officials
went to Washington to-day to urge
action by the federal authorities.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Warren, who caused warrants to be
issued for several Of the Cpmpnny's 4
agents, sent his assistant, Oliver d.
Schick. accompanied by n. u. Critch.
field, state secretary Of agriculture. to
lay the case before Secretary Wilson
and DIR. II. II. Wiley ut Washington.
The meats alleged TO have been
"doctorcd" were discovered OH Sept. II
ana ns the pure food net became opera.
tive on Sept. / Commissioner Warren
declares the company II liable under
the federal laws for violation of this
act.
The following appeared on the sec.
ond page Of part I. Of the Chicago
Sunday Tribune of October ~. 1907.
II speaks for itself:
RULING OF MICHIGAN JUDGE
BLOW TO ARMOUR COMPANY.
Petition to Have Injunction Against
Snlc Of Sausage Dissolved Refused
Another Plea Falls.
Niles. Mlch., Oct. 1O--[Speclal.l l.
Judge Coolidge to-day refused to grant
the petition made by Armour 4 Co. TO
have the Injunction forbldding the com.
pnLy from selling sausage In Michigan
dissolved. The injunction was oh.
tained by State Food Commissioner
Bird on the grounds that the sausnges
were adulternted In violence Of tho
pure food laws.
Judge Coolidge also refused 10 sus.
tain the temporary injunction obtained
by Armour 4 Co. f0rbiddIng Bird from
posting certain bulletins showing that
the sausagcs contained certain adultcr.
ants.
Tho following dIspatci, published IN
the Chicago Record. Herald. Oct. 81,
1907. explains itself:
Lincoln. Ncb, Oct. 3O.-Willian
Huxtable. representing Swift 4 Co., anil
Claude byron. representing Armour h
o.. were today hound over to tho dIs.
trlct court on the charge Of violating
the pure food law by selling unbranded
meats. The Cudahy company agreed to
abide by the decision In the cases OF the
other two concerns.
Chicago Health Department annual
report. 1907, page o.: " a
number Of samples of butter. cheese,
liquid eggs, sausage ami potted or can.
ned meats and other canned foods have
been found to be preserved with boric
acid during the past year."
During the annual convention Of the
American Meat Packers Association,
which opened In Chicago Oct. Z, 1907,
the committee appointed To ask the gov
ernmcnt to return to the packers meats
rejected ana condemned by govern.
ment inspectors, made the following
report: mo provision has been made |
Tor the return OF meats to inspected es.
after they have been re-
Jected, but your committee expects,
when this is fully considered by the de-
relief will be granted"
In other words, meats condemned |
because Of cancer, tuberculosis, lumpy- |
jaw ana the like will be returned to
the packers!
What will the packers do with this
meat?
ship 1t abroad, or sell 1t to the peo-
pie of Chicago?
People are beginning to appreciate
me enormlty of the withdrawal of Chi.
'ngo city Inspectors from the big pack
ng houses.
@cSA
Does bOric acid cause appepdicitisY
IN the course of an article rc-puhllshed
rom New York paper, In the Chicago
Daily News Of November 3, 1906, we
ina the following:
I'm the meantime physicians, as well
rs the public at large, continue to won
Ter whether either one of the authori.
les just mentioned may find it possible
% correct some of the abuses that are
most frequent, says the New York
Post The troublesome problem of the
lsc of borlc acid as a food preserya-