Chicago eagle., 1907-06-29

cagoan.
Chicago is reveilns In a feast Of
lumpy Jaw beef, tuberculosis cattle and
the like.
The new Federal meat inspection law
Is In force. but, 30 far rs Chicago is
II is a dead letter.
The United States law only applies
to meat intended for export and for
meat shipped to other States.
This Is rs far as the Federal author.
ity can 60.
1t cannot interfere with local condi.
tlons.
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 tho
carcass Is good to eat
So thousands Of Chicagoans are eat.
Ing lumpy Jaw cattle every day, Ia
bllssful ignorance Of the awful facts.
The most radical legislation IL neces.
sary to obliterate this evil and the
people will get It when they wake up
and realize the terrible danger TINT
constantly menaces themselves and
their families under present conditions.
Speaking Of the seriousness Of the
matter, the Chicago Tribune In q 70.
Gently printed editorial declared:
"The Health Department should at
once enact and enforce the regulations
which have been prepared BY the De-
partment Of Agriculture.
III those regulations are 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 II to be eaten In Chicago. n
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 "
as good a. the Federal inspection.
'"There will be nm 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
high standard of cleanliness In their
establishments unless they are forced
to. There IL need Of vigilant municipal
inspection to keep this city from be-
coming a dumping ground for poor meat
and to enforce sanitary regulations IN
packing houses which are outside tho
scope Of Federal supervision"
Tho Beef Trust will be a national 10
President Roosevelt and the member
Of Congress first heard about the Beef
Trust horrors from the Eagle In No.
ven,bcr, 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. or course these
slaughter joints are cleanly. They
have to be. They are sanitary In near
ly every respect. The only unsani
tary things about the Trust slaughter
houses are the cancerous cattle, the
tuberculosis cows and the trlchina
hogs. The surroundings have to be
kept cleanly, like all buildings devot'
ed to the care of cadavers. Even the
embalmed beef turned out by the
Trust is sanitary-from an embalmer's
standpoint.
One hundred and sixteen articles pro.
duced by the Beef Trust In Chicago
have been examined and condemned by
the honest pure food commissioner Of
the State OF North Dakota. Every one
of them was condemned because II
contained poison ana was thercfors
detrimental to the public health. Lach
OF space alone prohibits us from print
Ing the list anu the names OF thu
houses shipping the stun.
The Beef Trust mas causei a bil
raise In the price Of shoes. The al
legged beef trust controls incidental!
the domestic hide market. which Con
gress closed practically for the bench
Of the beef trust by clapping duty o
ID per cent ad valOrem on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust. accord
ing to Associated Press dispatches
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust Axe
now the cost of the leather. the raw
material out Of which shoes are made
and hence II controls both the price
of shoes In the domestic market ant
In the export shoe trade. built up a
great expense by our shoe manufac
turers.
Furthermore, It is common knOwl
edge that the domestic price of butter
eggs, butterine, dressed poultry, tn,
grains. fruits. vegetables, apples, pOta
toes and probably other foods ia regu
lated largely by the same trust of cor
poratlOns.
This Ia logical and unavoidable a
present. It u due In part b specia
privileges OF lower rates In the ship