Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-09
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

How do we know that sufficient pre.
cautions IRE taken to prevent coutami.
nation2
How do the trust gentlemen know,
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls Of their plants 10
their own affair; that Is, their bust.
ness they will manage It as they seo
nj. Whose affair Is II, then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II we are
poisoned by trichinae, IL cancer in.
creases?
Other countries are not 10 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
states Is supposed to keep an inspector
upon meat intended for export and to
place upon 1t an official stamp certify.
Ing that 1t Is ft Tor food.
II. then, these are the methods In
regard to export beef. about which
there Is nominal Inspection, what do
you suppose are the methods about
meat for domestic consumption, on
which there Is no inspection at allP
Why the Beef Trust allowed to 10
on year after year violating the law
ana no attempt made to prevent Il?
Why are the laws inert against this
criminal organization? Why In a man
sent to prison for five years for forg.
Ing a fvc.dollar check and these men
go free for swindlIng a nationf
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 Ger.
tainly suggest fraud ana treacheryP
We are not obliged to have these
things II we do not want them. The
remedies are simple enough.
Az to the ''lumpy Jaw" the tubercu.
losls and the cancer, put a stop to pri.
vate slaughtering. Let oil the slaugh.
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 oil. There are very few
private slaughter houses In England
The cities and towns run their slaush.
ter houses under medical inspection.
But In England the people do not care
to be poisoned In their meat.
And s,ooA not s,,nss., ~l~~..A
lection that publicly owned slaughter
houses are an invasion of the private
rights Of business. When Il comes 10
life aud death there are no private
rights Of buhiness. No man has Q rishN
to saved profits that be makes by
spreading disease. We have zone too
fur on the road to public sanitation 10
turn back bcause some gentlemau's
profits are threatened. The State win
not allow you to 60 around with small.
pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your
house. although each may be strictly
your own affair. Compared with can.
Ger, smallpox and 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 It Gun provide pest houses
for public safety It can provide slauRh.
ter houses for public safety. And N,
duty In the one case IL ut least as clear
as In the other.
Health Department Bulletin, Dec.
%, 1905:
AT the Union Stock Yards the fol.
lowing have been condemned and de.
strOyed:
"2soh cattle. weighing 14s,s2a
pounds:
1906 hogs. weighing 4O.475 pounds.
"Cut meats weighing 5,O24 bounds.
10 calves. weighing s55 pounds.
Y sheep, weighing 26O pounds.
"Twenty-one cattle nine hogs and
5,O24 pounds cut meats We're con,
demned after Dassing) government In.
spection."
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Health Department Bulletin. Novem.
ber %, 1905:
'"Condemnatlons Of unit food during
the week:
AT the Union Stock Yards. 8s,703
pounds OF cattle hogs, calves and sheen,
AT retail markets 66,739 pounds Of
beef, ham ana poultry"
49,
The Beef Trust will be stopped. no
matter how hard the Chicago trust
press and fake committees composed
OF experts" try to save 1t.
Thirty years ago, according to the
Chicago Health Department, the ma.
lority OF the deaths In Chicago were
among infants. Now. thanks to the
Beef Trust, the great majority OF tho
SaSple who die are adults, the averass
age OF the deceased having lncrease1
from Infancy In 1476 In n warn n