Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-19
4 Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty Of
Spreading Tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How do we know that sufficient prs.
cautions are taken to prevent contami.
natiOn2
How do the trust gentlemen know,
They inform us that what soes On
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that is, their busi.
ness; they will manage It AZ they see
Mt. Whose affair IL Il, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned by trichInae, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not 20 dull %
we are about these things Other
countries understand very well the
inonstrous perils involved In the meth.
DDS Of this monopoly, and. therefore.
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the United
States Is supposed to keep an inspector
upon meat intended for export and 10
place upon II an official stamp certify.
Ing that It Is At 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, on
which there Is no inspection mt allf
Whywas the Beef Trust allowed to 10
on year after year violating the law
ana no attempt made to prevent IT.
Why IRE the laws inert against this
criminal organixation2 Why 10 q man
sent to prison for five years for forg.
Ing a fvc.dOllar check and these men
80 free for swindling q nationF
Why do we contribute our dollars
ycar after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are we content to have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind Ger.
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryf
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
Az to the "lumpy Jaw" the tubercu-
losis and the cancer, put a stop to pri-
vate slaughtering. Let all the slaugh.
tering Of food animals he done by the
State In the light Of day. without any
Of this dark lantern business, on equal
terms for oil. There are very few
private slaughter houses In ENGLAND
The cities and towns run their slauRh.
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 the oh.
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are an invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When II comes 70
life and death there are no private
rights Of business. No man has q risht
10 saved profits that be makes b.
spreading disease. We have gone TO-
fur on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back because some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State viii
not allow you to 60 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each may be strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger, smallpox ana scarlet fever arc
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera II can
take radical measures to stamp ont
cancer. q million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety It can provide slauRh.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case IL ut least as clear
az In the other.
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%. 1905:
"At the Union Stock Yards the fo.
lowing have been condemned and De.
strOyed:
"2soN cattle. weighing 1852,
pounds:
1850 hogs, weighing 4O.475 pounds.
cut meats weighing 5.O24 pouuds.
10 calves. weighing S55 pounds.
~ sheep. weighing 200 pounds.
"rwenty-one cattle, nine hogs ana
5.O24 pounds cut meats were con.
demned after Oassing) government In.
spectlOn."
Health Department Bulletin. Novem.
ber 20. 1905:
"Condemnations Of unat food durIns
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards. 0s7na
pounds OF cattle, hogs, calves and sheen.
AT retail markets 80.730 pounds OF
beef ham and poultry"
The Reef Trust will be stopped, no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
Of experts" try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago, according to thu
Chicago Health Department. the ma.
1ority OF the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now, thanks to the
Reef Trust, the great majority OF the
E=snple who die are adults. the averass
age Of the deceased having increaseA
from Infancy In 1876 to 81 years n,
100Al