Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-05
people In ignorance of true. but awful
conditions which menace their health

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The Illinois Legislature should I'm.
vcstigate the Beef Trust thoroughly
this winter.
Chicago Is the headquarters Of this
nefnrious Trust. and therefore Illinois
is more Interested IN the subject than
any other state.
That Il. 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 pol.
sons. Illinois has rested supinc.
Tho Legislature can ascertain from
the pure food commissioners Of Ken.
lucky ana North Dakota. what the
lawyers Of the Beef Trust promised to
lO In those States, II given another
chance.
The Legislature Gnu also ascertain
what the Beef Trust Is not required to
do In Illinois.
tuberculosis. cancer and append.
citls, all directly traccable to Beef
Trust products. are on the increase.
The new Government inspection law
does nothing for the people OF Illinois.
Ii tuberculosis any better Tor the
,eople this year than II was last year,
In another column will he found ex.
:racts from the Health Department I'M
,ual report and weekly bulletins. DO
sOu think that In the face Of these doc.
iments and the facts they contain that
The city can refuse to continue the In
.pectlon and condemnation OF tuber
,ulosis and cancerous cattle ut the
stock Yards?
How many concerns make fancy lard
for culinary use out Of hogs that die
" cholera?
How many thousands Of carcases
AVE the city inspectors condemned that
we're found hanging In coolers with the
tuberculosis trimmed out?
Where does all the meat that ar
lives Mt the Stock Yards ut night
Ome fromY
How many condemned hogs have been
Wld rs mess porkI
/ IL II, or II It not so, that some OF
the cattle condemned by city inspec'
tors have been found with their whole
'nsides one mass Of corruption?
Ia II not true that the butchers nj
the yards IRE afraid to cut some cattle
or fear Of contracting cOntagiOn them
selves?
IL Il true that many canned cattle
ire now killed outside the city and their
nrcnses shipped In with tumors and
'ancers still attached?
Why do Kansas City and other
points ship their tuberculous. lumpy.
lawrd and cancer cattle to Chicago?
Why Is II that diseased cattle can.
not he shipped TO any point east Of
Chicago?
Why Ia II. and by whose orders was
It that after the city inspectors had
condemned 40 lumpy-jawed cattle
that they were 'released"?
by whose orders was It done?
Is there another city besides Chi.
cagO that will even allow lumpy-
jnwed "critter' to enter It?
Is II not true that in st. Louis each
lumpy-jawed beast means fine of
$500, and that In Toronto, Canada, the
beast and even its hide are destroyed?
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The Chicago Beef Trust house which
pleaded guilty In Pennsylvania to the
charge of selling poisonous ana adul.
terated sausages, was fined on two
charges.
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All pork FOR Germany Is examined
carefully for trichlna before exporting.
Pork for Great Britain Is never ex.
amined for trlchina.
Hence the following figures may be
interesting:
In 1904 Great Britain imported from,
the United States 7,576,45O pounds of
canned pork, valued ut $77O,46S, and
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