Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-26
It Floods Chicago with Lumpy Jaw
Cattle and the Authorities
Do Nothing.
This City the Dumping Ground for
All the Bad Cattle in the
West.

pnrtment for the week ending May 10
states that two cows suffering from
tuberculosis were found among the
herds that supply Chicago with milk.
The Health Of the Public Is a para.
mount issue with any people.
The fact that the Chicago Health An.
tliorities condemned nearly four million
pounds of meat afflicted with tubercu.
losls during the last four months Of
1900 shows the danger the people are
In from Beef Trust methods.
Facts and figures speak for them.
selves and the attention of the public
Is called to the official report of the
Chicago Health Department on the sec.
Ond page Of this paper.
These reports cover the period before
the city inspection force was cut down
and are from the official records,
There must be an investigation Of the
Beef Trust by the Illinois Legislature
next winter.
And there will Ike.
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President Roosevelt and the members
Of Congress first heard about the Beef
Trust horrors from the Eagle last No.
vember. and they have heard more ev.
cry week since then.
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The spirits Of thousands Of poor
boys who went out to fight sor the
United States In the Spanish.Ameri.
can war, must hover over the fortunes
Of the Beef Trust In q demand for
vengeanccs
These thousands were killed BY the
'embalincd heef" Of the Beef Trust
and BY the polsons used In the makeup
Of their Beef Trust ratlons.
Neither the bullets Of the Spaniards
or the terrors Of the Cuban climate
did any havoc to the American soldier.
poor boy. ut all comparable with the
damage done by the frightful embalm.
ed food Of the Beef Trust.
The young fellows who offered their
lives to the American government, did
not for a moment imagine that the
country for which they were fighting
would permit Beef Trust to furnish
them with poisoned ratlons.
But It did.
The soldiers trusted their country
and ate the poison.
The result was death, disease, broken
constitutions for thousands.
These are facts which the war rec.
ords will corroborate.
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The Beef Trust slaughter houses are
like morgues. The Beef Trust mag.
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In magazine articles. OF course these
slaughter Joints arc Clearly. They
have to be. They are sanitary In near.
" every respect. The only unsani.
tary things about the Trust slaughter
houses are tho cancerous cattle. the
tuberculosis cows and the trlchinn
hogs. The surroundings have to he
kept cleanly. like oil buildings devot.
cd to the care OF cadavers. Even the
embalmed beef turned out by the
Trust Is sanltary-from an embalmer's
standpoint.
One hundred and sixteen articles pro.
duced by the Reef Trust In Chicago
have been examined anu condemned by
the honest pure food commissioner of
the State OF North Dakota. Every one
Vt them was condemned because II
contained poison ana vas therefore
detrimental to the public health. Lack
Of space alone prohibits us from print
Ing the list and the names OF the
houses shipping the stun.
The Reef Trust Is still trottlng people
over here from England and sending
them back with glowing reports of the
Trust and Its products.