Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-07
1T Has Fought Every Effort to Have Dates Placed Upon
Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Atempt
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

The most amazing stupidity concsiv.
able Of any people with foreheads y
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
Speculative interest, says Charles I'd.
ward Russell In a powerful article
written BY him in the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how care
less community might tolerate q mo-
nopoly Of some things, how II might
endure to have Its transportation, for
instance, or its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that II should tolerate
monopoly Of the primal necessity OF
food Ii beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked say.
ages have uniformly been too Wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such q monStrous
condition Ii our own. 4.
From thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this ldi0tic
arrangement let NJ cite one.
There u no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba.
GILL that prey upon mankind are com.
mon among the animals he eats for
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. Il 10 % com.
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewarned will use none but stcr.
ilized milk. What II hog cholera"
among swine Ii merely typhoid fever
In men. Trichinea In hogs poisons
human beings. Roth these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than al these. and more
deadly, ID another fact that 10 seldom
commented upon because II 10 too ap.
pailins to dwell much upon. What 10
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle = simpiy
cancer. The germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
"lumpy Jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy Jaw" 10 unnt for human
food.
This opens 6elo that demands the
immediate attention Of the severn.
ment. Cancer 10 the most terrible Of
all diseases. After It has reached Q
certain stage Of development Il y ab.
solutely incurable. Its progress 70
that stage may be without the pa.
tents knowledge or suspicion. Its
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked. II Stays Ito victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
Of this most terrible Of human af.
fiictions has been something to alarm
US all. II was once rare; II now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870.
n, the number Of caneerous patients
was one In 6S7. In 1904 the number
was one In 27S. In 1870. when the
total population Of the city was 2l0,.
238. the number Of cancer cases re-
ported ut all the institutions was q;
In 1900, with q total population Of
326.0O2. the number Of cancer cases
reported at oil the institutions was
1893, and In 1908, with about the same
population. the number was 267. I
append the table that shows this %.
tonlshing increase.
Here u . similar report from two
well.known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.