Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-09

that inspection by the city Of oil food
products IL Of untold value, not only
from financial but from sanitary
and hyglenic standpoint"
1.-THE following will show how neces.
sary city inspection Is at the Union
Stock Yards:
"The city meat inspectors have con.
demned In the coolers ana on the cut.
ting floors AFTER PASSING GOV.
EIiNMENT INSPECTION:
1926 cattle, cause, actinomycosIs.
"07 cattle, cause, emaclatlOn.
"2i cattle. cause, tuberculosis. EVIL.
dcnce Of disease having been trimmed
out.
nc cattle, cause, 'downers.'
''27 sheep. cause, pneumonia.
''O4 hogs, cause, pyaemla aud tubercu.
losis.
"47.72O pounds Of cut meats shipped
from st. Louis, Omaha, ETC., for can.
ming. This meat was sour and Shiny"
The discovery Of tons Of rotten
canned goods and decayed material In.
tended for food In the possession Of
Chicago business houses. bears out the
Eagles declaration made some time
ago that Chicago business associations
deplOred the attacks on the Beef Trust
because they were just rs guilty them
selves.
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The Beef Trust can poison the p.o.
pie; the railroad trusts slaughter the
people and the theatrical trust roast
the people. But the Milk Fed Press
Views the situation with complacency
because OF Milk Fed ads. trnnspor.a.
tion courtesles and theatrical passes
with the privilege Of getting acquaInt.
cd with IN actor or two.
Some Of the fellows who are ad.
vertising cattle cars. electric cars and
other wonderful improvements and
who offer the stock OF same for sale
Mt fabulously low figures. should be
looked after by the police. There are
too many Of them ut large In Chicago
to-day.
The Reef Trust mas caused a big
raise In the price Of shoes. The nj.
legged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market. which Con.
gress closed practically for the benefit
OF the beef trust by clapping duty OF
10 per cent ad val0rem on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust. accord.
ing to Associated Press dispatches.
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust fixes
now the cost Of the leather. the raw
material out of which shoes are made,
and hence II controls both tho prices
OF shoes In the domestic market and
In the export shoe trade, built up AZ
great expense by our shoe manufac,
turers.
Furthermore, II Is common knOwl.
edge that the domestic price OF butter,
eggs, butterine, dressed poultry. the
grains. fruits. vegetables. apples, pOta.
toes and probably other foods Is regu.
lated largely by the same trust OF cor,
p0ratiOns.
This IL logical and unavoidable n,
present. 1t IL due In part 10 special
privileges, OF lower rates In the ship
ping. private refrigerator lines, i'm
mense grain elevators and cOld.storage
plants scattered at the strategic points
and In part. no doubt, to the sheer
brutal force OF unlimited millions OF
dollars; a power welded by few per.
sons whom society does not hold per
sOnally responsible at present.
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Tho following from tue Bulletin of
the Health Department for month of
May: "rhe meat inspectors at the
stockyards condemned and destroyed a
total of 4Sl,705 pounds OF beef, pork,
veal and mutton"
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The Trust press Of Chicago carefully
eliminates from the reports of the Chi.
cago Health Department which 1t pub.
fishes. all reference to the condemna.