Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-02
4 Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for tho Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How do we know that suHIcient pre.
cautions are taken to prevent contsmi.
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants n
their own affair; that is, their busi.
ness: they will manage II AZ they ~
ut. Whose affair Is II, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned by trlchinae, II cancer In.
creases?
Other countries are not no dull %
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very well the
monstrous perils involved In the meth
DDS OF this monopoly. and. therefore,
try to exclude American meats.
To quiet their objections the United
Statcs Ii supposed to keep an inspector
upon meat Intended for export and 10
place upon II an official stamp certify.
Ing that 1t 10 ut Tor food.
IT. then, these are the methods In
regnrd to export beef, about which
there Il nominal inspection, what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there Ii no inspection at ailf
Whywas the Beef Trust allowed 10 70
ON year after year violating the law
ana no attempt made to prevent IT.
Why IRE the laws inert against this
criminal organization? Why IL q man
sent to prison for ive years for forg.
Ing q nve.dollar check and these men
60 free for swindlins a natlon3
Why do we contribute our dollars
year after year to swell unnecessary
boards?
Why are We content to have our
food prepared for us In secret under
conditions that to any sane mind cor.
tainly suggest fraud and treacheryf
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
As to the 'lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losis and the cancer. put a stop to pri.
vatc slaughtering. Let all the slaugb.
tering Of food animals be done By the
state In the light Of day, without any
OF this dark lantern business. on equal
terms for all. There arc very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaueb.
ter houses under medical Inspection,
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat.
And we need not worry about the oh.
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are I'm invasion Of the private
rights Of business. When Il comes 10
life and death there are NO private
rights Of business. No man has right
to saved profits that be makes by
spreading disease. We have gone too
TAR on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The state win
not allow you to 70 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each may he strictly
your own AFFAIR. Compared with can.
Ger. hmallp0x ana scarlet fever are
nothing. II the State can take radical
measures to stamp out cholera Il can
take radical measures to stamp out
cancer, million times worse than
cholera. II 1t can provide pest houses
for public safety 1t can provide slauRb.
ter houses for public safety. And its
duty In the one case Ia ut least as clea,
as In the other.
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Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%. 1906:
AT the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned and de.
stroyed:
"2soN cattle. weighing l4s,ss.
pounds:
800 hogs. weighing 4O.475 pounds.
Cut meats weighing 5,O24 pouuds.
10 calves. weighing S55 pounds,
y sheep, weighing 200 pounds.
"rwenty'one cattle, nine hogs and
,,O24 pounds cut meats were con.
iemned after passing) government IN.
spection."
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Health Department Bulletin, Noysu.
'er 90, 1905:
"condemnations Of unit food durIns
he week:
AT the Union Stock Yards, s,7os
ounds OF cattle, hogs, calves ana sheen,
AT retail markets G6.73O pounds OF
'eef, ham and poultry"
The Beef Trust will he stopped, no
natter how hard the Chicago trust
'rcss and fake committees composed
II experts" try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago, according to the
'hlcagO Health Department. the ma
ority OF the deaths In Chicago were
mong Infants. Now, thanks to the
'eef Trust, the great majority Of the
apple who die are adults. the averass
&c Of the deceased having Increased
rom Infancy In 1875 to 81 years u
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