Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-29
lit 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 O
the Country and It's Assaults Upon the Health
of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record.

ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS"
commenting upon 0hs condition
CONTINUES Commissioner Wliclan),
American Medicine December %,
says: One stands aghast at the crimi.
nal cupidity which will induce men to
attempt To sell such dangerous foods to
un unsuspecting community. II II now
In order to 70 step farther and find
out who Ii responsible for this moral
obliquity.
"'lt is well known that combina.
tlons Of the larger meat dealers have
existed In the past to the end Of rails.
Ing the price Of food stuffs beyond the
point to which healthy competition
would reduce them. The outcry hns
always been In protest against the In.
creased cost Of living, hut here for the
e.st time are the combinations which
coN'rol the food supply, brous.'4 'S.- .
direct relation to public health.
"'lt Ii high time that th,s n utter
be taken out of the class of mino, OF.
fenscs AND THE DEALERS THEM.
SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE
LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even
Il war. when all kinds Of brutality are
sanctioned. Il In the height of die.
honor-evcn murder-to poison the
water supply Of country. II II any
better to poison the food supply7 II
Ii time thnt the public mind should
develop conscience In this direction
Speaking Of Beef Trust tuberculosis
read the following from the Health De.
partment Bulletin. November 4, 1905:
'.rhe total amount Of mcats con.
dcmncd during the period was 1,343.343
pounds. OF tho principal causes Of
condemnation. 81 PER CENT WE'RE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS. II per cent for
actinomycos -lumpy jaw-and 4 per
cent for hog cholera"
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Health Department Bulletin. Dec. 9.
1906: "A total Of l47,00O pounds Of
meats was condemned and destroyed
(durlng the past week. under the su.
pervision Of the department inspectors
ut the Union Stock Yards. This In.
clules 4,0S3 pounds Of governmcnt.in.
sI,ected cut meats shipped from pack.
Ing houses In the West for Chicago
city trade and canning"
The Beef Trust Il getting worse.
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Not satisfied with importing foreign
paupcr labor to compete with Ameri.
can labor. the Beef Trust kills more
workingmcn annually In its plants than
fall In q big battle In war time. In
one Chicago plant thirteen men were
killed In one day recently.
IIeaith Department Bulletin, Novem.
ber II. 1906:
"Although the condemnation ind de.
structlOn OF food supplies UNIT for
human consumption during the past
three mOnths--since the resumption of
Stock Yards inspection August Z ult.,
BY order Of the C0mmiss,0ner-have
reached immense proportions, much un.
ut food still reaches the market. Only
such animals and meats al show gross
pathologic conditions, recognizable by
the naked eye, are now condemned. ia.
cllities for microscopic laboratory OK.
animation have not yet been restored.
"rhe Union Stock Yards city inspec-
tors condemned and destroyed 30 parts
Of beef carcasses, 8 hogs and cattle
WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED By
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
"rhe total stock yards condemnations
amounted to l76,SOS pounds"
parts OF beef carcasses !"
In other words It has been and Ii
the practice to cut out the cancers and
tubercular tumors and let the rest of
the carcass 60 to the people for food
And yet we call ourselves civilized.
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The Beef Trust will find II hard
to get resting place when the peo.
pie of this country rise against II,
as they surely will. The people of the
whole world are crying for Its exter.
minatlOn.
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An average Of $4,000 pounds OF dis.
eased meat Is condemned every week by
Chicago Health Department inspectors
In butcher shOna and grocery and de-