Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-27

Ions Of water from Chicago water
mains by means of blind pipes" lead
Ing from the streets to their packing
houses. While other people had to pay
for the water they used. the Beef
Trust gentlemen paid nothing.
The discovery of these thefts caused
great Indignation among the people ut
the time. but the Beef Trust was never
obliged to make restitution and the
officials who were bribe,l, were never
punished.
The record Of the Reef Trust Is a
record of rascality. vcnality and cor
ruption.
Caught rctl.handcd stealing water
from the people, It simply asked them
what they were going to do about 1t.
Every attempt to prevent the sale
of lumpy Jaw beef In Chicago has
been blocked by the agents of the
Beef Trust.
These are facts that are easily prov
on and yet the lives and happiness of
millions of people are daily put In
peril by this awful trust.
Lately the Beef Trust has been
branching out and gobbling up other
lines of business.
1t controls the meat business.
| 1t controls the poultry trade.
1t controls the egg market.
1t controls the hide market.
| 1t controls the boot and shoe trade.
And lately 1t has stepped into the
control Of u large part Of the vegetable
market.
| In order that the ulti.milliOnalrcs
at It's head may thrive, II has raised
the price Of living upon the people Of
the United States.
1t II the Beef Trust ana the Beef
Trust alone that has made the cost
OF living as high rs II II.
The Beef Trust buys cattle. swine
and sheep on the hOof for almost moth.
Ing.
II YOU will take the trouble 10 look
ut the market reports Of the daily
papers you will see that the trust pays
from $l.25 to 80 per 100 pounds for
canning cows. This Is Il cent ana a
quarter to two cents Il pound. For
very high grade meat they pay as
high as five or six cents pound.
The trust utlllzes every portion of the
cattle. hoofs, horns, intestines, hide,
hair and bones.
1t could afford to sell the people
meat ut reasonable prices 'and make u
big profit itself
Hut II IL too hOgglsh TO do this. II
has the American public by the throat
ana makes the American public pay
outrageous prices.
The following from the Chicago
Daily News market report for April
q. 1907, II a fair sample of what the
Beef Trust pays for cattle, per 100
pounds:
Good to prime steers. $1,000 6.75
Common to good steers. 80. i.750i 800
Inferior to common steers. 3.S56i4.I5
Good to fair cows and
heifers .................3 3.5OGi5.2
Yearlings. good to choice. 5.l5MG.OO
Good cutting to fair beef
cows :. ................ 2.456l32I
Fair to choice feeders. -. 3.SO0L5.ON
Fair to choice stOckers. 5000 "a
Common to good canning
cows :. ................ 1.a5m2.4O
Bulls, common to good. .,. 22563.75
Bulls, good to choice. ...... a756i 4.2l
Calves, fair tn good. ....... 3WOM5.7J
Calves, good to choice. ..... G.OO6i .W
You will see from the above figures
that the average price paid by the
Beef Trust Is about 3 cents n pound.
But do the people who have to pay
eyorbltant prices for food get good
food?
of the Chicago Health Department for
a reply:
The following from the Chicago
Health Department Bulletin Of Octo.
ber %, 1905, speaks for itself:
The city inspectors at the Union
Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT.
TIE FOUND IN THE COOLERS.
WITH A PART OF THE EVIDENCE
OF TUBERCULOSIS TRIMMED OUT.
AFTER HAVING BEEN PASSED BY
THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS"
'They also condemned and destroyed
3,033 pounds of cut meats shipped from
st. Louis and Kansas City, having
passed government inspection at those
places"
This shows the sort of government
Inspection we have.
If few of the governmental omIs-
siOns are rectifed how many thous-
ands are not?
How many homes In Europe and
America are at this moment harboring
cuts OF meat from tuberculosis cattle?
The above report Of the Health Com.
missioner speaks Of meat hanging In
the coolers Of trust houses, with tuber.