Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18
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.

ping. private refrigerator lines. i'm.
mense grain elevators aud cold.storage
plants scattered at the strategic points
and In part, no doubt, to the sheer
brutal force Of unlimited millions Of
dollars; a power welded by few per.
sons whom society does not hold per.
sonally responsible at present.
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The spirits Of thousands OF moor
boys who went out to FIGHT Cor the
United States In the Spanish-Ameri.
can war, must hover over the fortunes
Of the Beef Trust In q demand for
veneeanccs
These thousands were killed b. the
"embalmed heef" Of the Beef Trust
and BY the poisons used In the makeup
Of their Beef Trust rationa
Neither the bullets Of the Cpanlards
or the terrors Of the Cuban climate
did any havoc TO the American soldier.
poor boy, at all comparable with the
damage done BY the frightful embalmr
ed food Of the Beef Trust.
The young fellows who offered their
lives to the American government did
not for q moment imagine that TIE
country for which thsy were nghtins
would permit Q Beef Trust b furuish
them with poisoned rauonA
But Il did.
The soldiers trusted their country
and ate the poison.
The result was death, disease, beokso
constitutions for thousanda
These are facts which the war no.
ords will corroboeatA
st. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 2O.-A coro.
ncr's jury investigating the death a
Ernest Goers, who died Feb. 8 after
eating pork sausage. to-day returned Q
verdict recommending that the author.
tiles take proper means for q more
rigid inspection and examination OF oil
food products The testimony showed
that the sausage eaten by Gosrs was
bought from South st. Paul packing
house, where government inspectors in
spect all meat products
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Talk about government inspectionl
We take the following from the last
annual report Of Dr.. Charles J. whaln,
Commissioners OF Health Of the city Of
Chicago. The facts speak for them.
selves.
AT the Union Stock Yards during
tina Last i've months OF the year, seven
inspectors (lve Of whom were appoint.
cd In November) have condemned and
destroyed 2,704 .006 pounds Of meat .
being unit for food: all Of which
would have bsen sold In tho city Of Obi.
caso. and for which the purchases
would have paid flrst-class prices"
"From these asures 4 IN vevv >.sAsnt
that inspection BY the city Of all food
products 10 Of untold value. not only
from q financial but from q sanitary
aud hygienic standpoint"
1.-THE following will show how nsoes-
sary city inspection 10 ct the Union
Stock Yards:
~rhe city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and ON the cut.
ting noors AFTER PASSING GOV.
ERNMENT INSPECTION:
"l26 cattle, cause, actinomycosis.
"07 cattle. cause, emactatiOn.
'24 cattle. cause. tuberculosis. evi.
dence Of disease having been trimmed
out.
"l8 cattle, cause, 'dowuers.'
NJ shssp. sansA pneumonia.
~ bog, sause, pyaemia and tubercu.
losis.
"47,720 pounds Of cut meats shipped
from Ct Louis, Omaha. &C., for can.
ming. This NEST Wa sour and slimy."
The new government inspection IL q
Joke.
The law went into force and effect
Oct l and every day since that date
the market reports Of the daily news.
papers have quoted prices on "canner
cows" and "canner cattle"
Everybody knows. or ought to know,
by this time what "canner" IL.
1t may be az well, however, to say
that q "canner" 10 a sickiy animal,
diseased, crippled or worn out A cow
that has "thr0wn" Its calf and that
gives no milk. An animal that 10 un.
ut for dairy purposes and 1T only for
the bone yard.
This 10 the liberated. cancerous or
tubercular creature that 10 thrown to
the tender mercies Of the Beef Trust
and cut up and sold to the people.
Read the market reports and you
will see the figure that the "cannsr''
cuts In the live stock market.
The Government inspectors. most Of
whom were packing house employees.
have disclosed through the daily press
the wonderful way In which the public
IL to be protected.
They have caused to be printed fac
SMILES OF the government stamps,
showing cattle divided into seven sec.
lions, labeled the "round," "the loin."
'the rib" "the chuck" "the brlsket,"