Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-26
people In ignorance Of true. but awful.
conditions which menace their health.

conditions which menace their health
The Illinois Legislature should In.
vcstigate the Beef Trust thoroughly
this winter.
Chicago Is the headquarters OF this
nefarlous Trust, and therefore Illinois
Is more Interested in the subject than
any other state.
That Is. Illinois ought to be more
Interested In the subject.
But while Kentucky and North Da.
kota and Pennsylvania and Vermont
and other states, through their pure
food departments. have adopted drastic
measures against the Beef Trust poi.
sons, Illinois has rested supinc.
The Legislature can ascertain from
the pure food commissioners Of Ken
lucky ana North Dakota. what the
lawyers of the Beef Trust promised to
do In those States, II given another
chance.
The Legislature can also ascertain
what the Beef Trust Is not required to
do In Illinois.
tuberculosis, cancer and append.
cltis. all directly traceable to Beef
Trust products. are on the increase.
The new Government inspection law
does nothing for the people Of Illinois.
10 tuberculosis any better for the
'eOple this year than It was last year;
In another column will be found ex.
tracts from the Health Department an
iual report and weekly bulletins. DO
you think that In the face Of these doc.
iments and the facts they contain that
the city can refuse to continue the In
>pecti0n and condemnation OF tuber
.ulOsis and cancerOus cattle at the
stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
for culinary use out Of hogs that die
Il chOleraY
How many thousands Of carcases
ave the city inspectors condemned that
we're found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed Out2
Where does ali the meat that ar.
sives ut the Stock Yards ut night
Ome frOm9
How many condemned hogs have been
%Old as mess pork?
10 II, or Ii 1t not 20. that some Of
che cattle condemned by city lnspec.
tors have been found with their whole
'usides one mass Of corruption?
IL II not true that the butchers nj
the yards are afraid to cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting contagion them,
selves?
IL II true that many canned cattle
ire now killed outside the city and their
'arcases shipped In with tumOrs and
ancers still attached?
Why do Kansas City and other
points ship their Tuberculosis, iumpy.
lawed and cancer cattle to Chicago?
Why 10 It that diseased cattle can.
DOT be shipped TO any point east Of
Chicago?
Why is II, and by whose orders was
It that after the city inspectors had
condemned TO lumpy-jawed cattle
that they We're "released"2
BY whose orders was II done?
10 there another city besides Chi.
cagO that will even allow lumpy.
lawed "critter" to enter IT.
10 It not true that In st. Louis each
lumpy'jawed beast means a fine of
$500, ana that In Toronto. Canada, the
beast and even its hide are destroyed?
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The Chicago Reef Trust house which
pleaded guilty In Pennsylvania to the
charge of selling poisonous and adul.
terated sausages, was fined on two
charges.
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All pork for Germany Ia examined
carefully for trlchina before exporting.
Pork for Great Britain Is never ex.
amined for trichlna.
Hence the following figures may be
interesting:
In 1904 Great Britain imported from
the United States 1864 5O pounds OF
canned pork, valued at $77O,408, and
l3,000.85l pounds of fresh pork, valued