Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-16


products Is Of untold value. not only
from a financial but from sanitary
and hyglenic standpoint"
"The following will show how neces.
snry city inspection Is at the Union
Stock Yards:
"The city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
EMINENT INSPECTION:
"126 cattle, cause, actin0mycosls.
"O7 cattle, cause. emaclatiOn.
"24 cattle, cause. tuberculosis. cyl.
dence Of disease having been trimmed
out.
40 cattle, cause, 'downers.'
"27 sheep. cause, pneumonia.
'04 hogs, cause. pyaemia and tubercu.
losis.
"47,720 pounds Of cut meats shipped
from ct. Louis, Omaha. ETC., for can.
ming. This meat was sour and Shiny"
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The discovery Of tons OF rotten
canned goods and decayed material In.
tended for food In the possession Of
Chicago business houses. bears out the
Eagles declaration made some time
ago that Chicago business associations
depl0red the attacks on the Beef Trust
because they were just as guilty them
selves.
The Beef Trust can poison the p.'o.
pie; the railroad trusts slaughter the
people and the theatrical trust roast
the people. But the Milk Fed Press
views the situation with complacency
because Of Milk Fed ads. Transports.
tiOn courtesles and theatrical passes
with the privilege Of getting acQuaint.
cd with an actor or two.
Come 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 tho police. There are
too many Of them at large In Chicago
to-day.
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The Reef Trust mas caused q big
raise In the price OF shoes. The al.
legged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market. which Con-
gress closed practically for the benent
Of the beet trust BY clapping q duty Of
10 per cent id valorsm ON foreign
hides. The alleged beef 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,
and hence II controls both the prices
Of shoes In the domestic market and
In the export shoe trade, built up AZ
great expense by our shoe manufac-
turers.
Furthermore, Il Ia common knowl.
edge that the domestic price Of butter,
eggs, butterine, dressed poultry, the
grains, fruits, vegetables, apples, pota.
toes and probably other foods ID reEu.
lated largely BY the same trust Of cor.
p0rati0ns.
This IL logical and unavoidable ut
present. It 10 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 ut 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 following from the Bulletin of
the Health Department for month of
May: "rhe meat inspectors at the
stOckyards condemned and destroyed a
total Of 48l, 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.
cago Health Department which It pub.
fishes. all reference to the condemna.