Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-19
1t Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed Upon
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Attempt
to Make It Pay Costs Of inspection.
Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products of
the Country and Its Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record

How do we know that sufficient ORE.
cautions IRE taken to prevent contaml.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know
They inform us that what goes On
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that IL, their bust.
ness; they will manage Il as they 80
fit. Whose nfrair Is II, then. II the
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned by trichinae, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not 10 dull %
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very we'll the
monstrous perIls involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and, therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the Unioso
States Ii supposed to keep an inspector
upon meat intended for export and %
place upon II an ofiicial stamp certify.
Ing that II Ii flt Tor food.
II, then, these are the methods IN
regard to export beef, about which
there Is nominal inspection, what Do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, 90
which there Is no inspection at ailf
Whywas the Beef Trust allowed b 10
ON year after year violating the law
and no attempt made to prevent ~
Why IRE the laws inert against this
criminal organization? Why Ii man
sent to prison for five years for eorg.
Ing q nve-dollar check and these men
60 free for swindlIng q nationS
Why do VIC contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content to have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions TINT to any sane mind Ger.
tainly suggest fraud and treachcryi
We IRE not obliged to have these
things II We do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
Al to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis and the cancer. put a stop to pr.
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugh.
tering Of food animals he done BY the
state In the light Of dry, without any
Of this dark lantern business, on eQus'
terms for oil. There are very few
private slaughter houses In Englan&
The cities and towns run their slaugu.
ter houses under medical inspection.
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat
And we need not worry about tho oh.
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are I'm invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When Il comes 10
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has q right
to saved profits that he makes By
spreading disease. We have gone too
far on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back because some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State win
not allow you to 90 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house, although each may be strlctly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger. smallpox ana scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera II can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer. q million times worse than
cholera. II It can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slaugh.
ter houses for public safety. And Ito
duty In the one case II ut least as clear
as In the other.
@SA
Tho Eagles prediction that the Reef
Trust would raise the price Of food
on the people has been fulfilled. The
action OF the packers Is expected to
arouse particularly those members Of
Congress who have insisted that the
packers should pay the cost OF the
meat Inspection, for which Congress
now approprlates 100000 annually.
One Of the arguments used against this
proposal has been the allegation that
the packers would at once shift the
cost Of the inspection to the cattle
ralsers.
Now that the packers propose to
shift the loss from condemned car.
casses while ut the same time they
profit by the advertisement Of the gov.
ernment guaranty Of the wholesome
ness of their products the proponents
OF the plan to make them pay for the
government inspection insist they have
an argument. Senators Beveridge, Of
Indiana, and Galllnger, Of NIw Hamp-
shire. have already promised to renew
the fight In the next Congress.
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Congress should ut once add to the
meat inspection law these three pro.
visions:
Fuckers should be obliged to
bear all the expense attacl ed to In
spectl0n.
PACKERS should be obliged to
print date of canning on the labels Of
all canned goods.
! 3-All meet In transit should be In
spected BY the government