Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01
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.

ping. private refrigerator lines. i'm.
mense grain elevators and cold. storage
plants scattered ut the strategic points
and In part, no doubt, to the sheer
brutal force Of unlimited millions Of
dollars: a power welded by few per.
sons whom society does not hold per.
sonally responsible at present.
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The spirits Of thousands Of door
boys who went out to fight Cor the
United States In the Spanish. Ameri.
can war, must hover over the fortunes
Of the Beef Trust In q demand for
vengeancc'
These thousands were killed by the
"embalmed beef" Of the Beef Trust
and BY the poisons used In the 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. ut all comparable with the
damage done by the frishtful embaim.
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 nghtina
would permit q Beef Trust to furnish
them with poisoned ratlons.
But Il 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 nc.
ords will corroborate.
st. Paul, MIMI. Feb. 2O.-A coro-
ner's jury investigating the death Of
Ernest GOers, who died Feb. 8 after
eating pork sausage, to-day returned
verdict recommending that the author.
tiles take proper means for q more
rigid Inspection ana examination Of all
food products. The testimony showed
that the sausage eaten by Gocrs was
bought from a South st. Paul packing
house. where government inspectors In.
spect all meat products.
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Talk about government inspection!
We take the following from the last
annual report Of Dr.. Charles ]. Whalen,
Commissioner or Health Of the city of
Chicago. The facts speak for them.
selves.
AT the Union Stock Yards during
the last i've months Of the year, seven
inspectors (hve Of whom were appoint.
cd In NOvember) have condemned and
destroyed 2,704,03S pounds Of meat. 40
being UNIT for food; all Of which
would have been sold In the city Of Chi.
cago. and for which the purchaser
would have paid nrst.class prices"
"From these ngures Il II vsrv evident
that inspection BY the city Of all food
products Is Of untold value. not only
from a financial hut from q sanitary
aud hygienic standpoint"
1.-THE following will show how neces.
sary city inspection IL at the Union
Stock Yards:
",rhe city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers and on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
ERNMENT INSPECTION:
1925 cattle, cause, actinomycosis.
"01 cattle, cause, emaciatiOn.
"24 cattle, cause, tuberculosis. evi.
dence Of disease having been trimmed
out.
"16 cattle, cause, 'downers.'
"o7 sheep, cause, pneumonia.
"04 hogs, cause, pyaemla and tubercu.
lOsis.
ALTO pounds OF cut meats shipped
from st. Louis. Omaha. ETC.. for can
ming. This meat was sour and Shiny"
The new government inspection Is a
Joke.
The law went into force and effect
Oct. l and every day since that date
the market reports Of the daily news.
papers have quoted prices on "canner
cows" and "canner CATTLE"
Everybody knows, or ought to know,
by this time what a "canner" Is.
1t may be as well, however, to say
that "canner' Is slckly animal,
diseased, crippled or worn out A COW
that has "thrOwn" Its calf and that
gives no milk. An animal that is un.
ut for dairy purposes and Ut only for
the bone yard.
This Is the liberated, cancerous or
tubercular creature that Ia thrown to
the tender mercies of the Beef Trust
and cut up and sold to the people.
Read the market reports and you
will see the figure that the Gamer
cuts In the live stock market.
The Government inspectors, most Of
whom were packing house employees.
have disclosed through the daily press
the wonderful way In which the public
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