Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-29

can he fOuted by multi-mllllOnaire
iaw-breakers, what has become Of our
Government
Appendicitis IL a Bad Meat disease.
1t comes from the breakfast delica.
cies made out Of Gamer cows and
trlchina pork.
The Trust sausage Is one Of the won.
ders Of creation.
1t IL made out Of the cheapest meat
and the trimming Of Gamers, lumpy.
jaw cattle and dead swine.
After being thoroughly mixed with
a horrible concoction known to the
trade us potato fiour. this chopped,
stamped, crushed and chemically treat.
ed meat Is stuffed into the frequently
diseased CUTS of dead animals aud II
sold to the public rs sausage.
Despite the chemicals compounded
with the "meat" to make 1t smell
natural" both the compound itself,
as well as the casing" as the gut is
now called, are frequently the abode
Of heterogeneous.
The word appendicitis means an IN.
fammation Of the vermiform appendix,
which lies In the lower right hand cor.
uer Of the abdomen.
The vermiform appendix 10 q sack
attached to the intestine.
1t IL into this resting place that the
microbes crawl and cause trouble.
The real trichina microbe, which 10
very abundant In pork. and for which
no search 10 made by the Beef Trust,
eats through oil the human intestines,
and, playing no favorites, 10 always
fatal.
But the bad meat microbe, which
causes appendicitis, has not strength
enough to bore through the intestines.
It merely crawls into the frst and
only stopping place In the bowels-the
vermiform appendlx--and there It
works away until 1t starts inhamma.
ton.
When the first physicians began to
realize the Geological Importance Of
the appendix In intestinal inhamma.
ton, 1t was thought that seeds or 9th.
er offending material became lodged
therein, but many operations soon
proved the contrary. for ofttimes no
foreign bodies were found in It, and
other abdominal operations often show.
ed collections In the appendix that had
caused no trouble.
Most Of the best physicians and the
ablest surgeons are now convinced that
appendicitis IL caused by bad meat.
The disease, singularly enough, was
never heard Of until Beef Trust meth.
ods began to prevail In this country,
and now 1t Is to be found wherever
Beef Trust products have a sale..
According to the United States cen.
sus. Bill persons died fro,a appendi.
citls In 1900. The disease was not even
mentioned In the United States census
report of ls00-ten years before-be.
ca"s. tA>-e We're no cases S"' ~
deaths. How Is that for the work OF
the Beef Trust?
That the government Is not vet
through with the Beef Trust was init.
mated by Commissioner Garfield of the
Bureau of Corporations In his testi.
mony before the House committee on
appropriations In the hearing on the
legislative appropriation bill.
When asked by member Of the com.
mlttee II the Beef Trust did not con.
troll the by.products of beef, including
skins and hides, as much today as II
ever did, Mr.. Garfield replied that II
did, "and those special parts of that
industry may he taken up with the
government again, and with the law az
1t now stands we have no fear of run.
ming into the difficulties we met before y
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Meat from lumpy jaw cattle is sold
right along In Chicago. The Health De
partment approves Of Its sale as long hs
the infected portions have been cut out
The ordinance passed by the city cOun'
Gil requiring health inspectors to "pass'
on all meat In butcher shops, does not
apply to this at all. They will put
their o. X. on ell meat offered for sale
that Is not rotten or visibly decayed
That's all. Meat from infected animals
that looks good can be sold as usual
providing the lumpy jaw cancers are
cut out at the slaughter houses.
Does the Meat Inspection law pro-
tect the f0reignerf
It certainly does not protect the Chi.
cagoan.
! Chicago is reveling In q feast OF