Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-12
/ ioods Chicago with Lumpy law
Cattle and the Authorities
Do Nothing.
This City the Dumping Ground for
All the Bad Cattle i'm the
West.

partment for the week ending May 10
states that two cows suffering from
tuberculosis were found among tho
herds that supply Chicago with milk.
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The Health of the Public is a para.
mount issue with any people.
The fact that the Chicago Health An.
thoritics condemned nearly four million
pounds of meat afflicted with tubcrcu.
lusis during the last four months Of
1903 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 10 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 bc an investigation Of the
Beef Trust by the Illinois Legislature
next winter.
And there will be.
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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 cv.
cry week since then.
The spirits Of Thousands Of poor
boys who went out to fight for the
United Stntes In the Spanish.Amarl.
can war. must hover over the fortunes
Of the Reef Trust In q demand for
vengeance
These thousands were killed by the
''embalmed heef" Of the Beef Trust
and by the poisons used In tho makeup
Of their Beef Trust rations.
Neither the bullets Of the Spaniards
or the terrors Of the Cuban climate
did any havoc to the American soldier.
poor boy, at all comparable with the
damage done BY the frightfui embalm.
ed food Of the Beef Trust.
The young fellows who offered their
lives to the American government, did
not for moment imagine that the
country for which they were fighting
would permit a Beef Trust to furnish
them with poisoned ratlona
But II did.
The soldiers trusted their country
and ate the poison.
The result was death, disease, broken
constitutions for thousands.
These are facts which tho war rec.
ords will corrotoratc.
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The Beef Trust slaughter houses are
like mOrgues. The Beef Trust mag.
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In nsgaxlne articles. or course these
slaughter Joints are clearly. They
have to be. They are sanitary In near.
" every respect. The only unsani.
tary things about the Trust slaughter
houses are the cancerOus cattle. the
tuberculosis cows and the trIchina
hogs. The surroundings have to be
kept clearly. like all buildings devOt-
al to the care of cadavers. Even tho
embalmed beef turned ont by tho
Trust Il sanltary-from an embalmer's
standpoint.
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One hundred ana sixteen articles pro-
ducM by the Beef Trust In Chicago
have been examined AMI condemned by
the honest pure food commissioner Of
the state Of North Dakota. Every one
NJ them was condemned because II
contained n poison ana was therefore
detrimental to the public health. Lack
Of space alone prohibits IN 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.