Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-11
It Floods Chicago with Lumpy Jaw
Cattle and the Authorities
Do Nothing.
This City the Dumping Ground for
All the Bad Cattle i'm the
West.

Does the Meat inspection law pro.
tect the foreimeri
It certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
Chicago IL revealing In a feast Of
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is In force. but, 80 far as Chicago Ia
concerned, It Is dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This Is as fur as the Federal author.
ity can 60.
1t cannot interfere with local condi.
lions.
These are wholly under the control
of the local government and the local
government believes that when the
tubercular parts Of the beef and the
lumpy Jaw or cancerous parts Of the
beef are cut out, that the rest Of the
carcass Is good to eat.
SO thousands of Chicagoans are cat.
Ing lumpy jaw cattle every day. In
bllssful ignorance Of the awful facts
and the Beef Trust Is getting richer
than ever by purveying bad food to the
people.
The most radical legislation 10 neces-
sary to obliterate this evil aud the
people will get II when they wake up
and realize the terrible danger that
constantly menaces themselves and
their families under present conditions.
Speaking Of the seriousness Of the
matter, the Chicago Tribune In a ne
Gently printed editorial declared:
'"rhe Health Department should at
once enact and enforce the regulations
which have been prepared BY the De-
partment Of Agriculture.
"lf those regulations are necessary
to insure the good quality Of Chicago
meat which ID to be eaten by English.
men they are equally necessary to In.
sure the good quality Of Chicago meat
which II to be eaten Ia Chicago. II
foreigners are deserving Of protection
the people Of Chicago are also. They
will not get the same degree Of pro.
lection unless the local inspection 10
as good a. the Federal inspection.
"There will be IN attempt to work
of on Chicago consumers inferior meats
which cannot be marketed elsewhere.
Many Of the smaller packers who have
no outside trade will not maintain Q
high standard Of cleanliness In their
establishments unless they are forced
to. There IL need Of vigilant municipal
inspection to keep this city from b.
coming dumping ground for poor meat
ana to enforce sanitary regulations 10
packing houses which are outside the
scope Of Federal supervision"
~A
President Roosevelt and the member
Of Congress first heard about the Beet
Trust horrors from the Eagle In No
vember. 1905. and they have heard
more every week since then.
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 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
ed to the care Of cadavers. Even the
embalmed beef turned out by the
Trust is sanitary-from an embalmers
standpoint.
One hundred and sixteen articles pro.
duced by the Beef Trust In Chicago
have been examined and condemned BY
the honest pure food commissioners Of
the state Of North Dakota. Every one
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