Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-19
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 foreigner?
1t certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
Chicago Is revealing In feast of
lumpy jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is In force. but. so far as Chicago Is
concerned. IL Is a dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat Intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This Is as far as the Federal author.
ity can 60.
1t cannot interfere with local condl.
tions.
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.
80 thousands Of Chlcagoans IRE eat.
Ing lumpy Jaw cattle every day, ~
blissful Ignorance of the awful facts
und the Beef Trust Is getting richer
than ever BY purveying bad food to the
people.
The most radical legislation Il neces.
sary to obliterate this evil and 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 suplneness Of the
Chicago Health Department In this
matter. the Chicago Tribune In a re.
Gently printed editorial declared:
The Health Department should Mt
once enact ana enforce the regulations
which have been prepared by the De.
pnrtment Of Agriculture.
III those regulations nre necessary
to insure the good quality Of Chicago
meat which IL to be eaten by English.
men they are equally necessary to In
sure the good quality Of Chicago meat
which IL to be eaten In 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 IL
rs good as the Federal inspection.
There will he an attempt to work
OF on Chicago consumers inferior meats
which cannot he 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 Is need Of vigilant municipal
inspection to keep this city from be
coming dumping ground for poor meat
and to enforce sanitary regulations IN
packing houses which are outside tho
scope of Federal supervision"
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What an awful fuss the daily nsws
;apers make over the Insurance Ssa0
dals! And yet not one person In 1000 u
affected by them. Yet the daily news
papers have nothing to say against the
Beef Trust. which rObs every man
woman and child In the communIt
every day.
The wOrkingman and every otneI
man for that matter Is entitled to pure
food and pure medicine. a government
that does not protect n man ana hit
family In these particulars deserves to
be overthrOwn. The Beef Trust must
so.
Re~
The Beef Trust Is going to cOntro
the grazing business rs well rs TIN
rest of the cattle trade. 1t Is acquir
ing title to millions of acres OF LAND
In Colorado for the purpose OF rais
Ing cattle.
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The number of cattle afflicted with
tuberculosis Is said TO he very large
The report of the Chicago Health De
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