Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-05-09
THE FILTHY EGG FROM China


ton on the Pacific coast. more esps
cially In California:
According to reports OF travellers
and also those of white people who
have resided In China for any length
of time, the Chinese eggs are often
produced under extremely filthy CON
ditions. There are no privies or tot
let's or any sanitary arrangements In
that country, the inhabitants depend
ing largely upon the chickens to act
as scayengers. The collins contain
ing the dead are seldom buried, but
merely a few stones heaped upon
them, the visitors In that land tell us
how they have often seen the chick
ems going in and out OF broken or
decaying collins and scratching out
the worms that had been feeding up
on the dead. AN egg produced UNI
der such circums tances cannot be fit
food for human beings from the view
point of the white man. 1t does not
therefore. require much stretch of the
imagination to think OF Chinese eggs
in connection with offal, carrion, re-
fuse, and human excreta, which, in
stead OF being buried or disposed of
IN sanitary way is used by the thrift
ty out indescrlbably dirty Chinaman
as chicken feed. This certainly
makes The Chinese egg repugnant to
the white race if used for food. Ii
the reader is inclined to doubt these
statements, simply ask friends who
have been In China, or some OF the
Americans who took advantage Of the
service in the Philippines to visit
China, or, If still in doubt, go on a
visit to Chinatown In San Francisco
and smell few Of the odors down
there.
''The Chinese egg comes into direct
competition with our California prod
uct. Now, 1t Is certainly unfair bust
ness to expect or require California
to accept low prices for
their eggs, simply because Chinese
eggs are cheap. There certainly ought
to be wide difference in the price
between the vile Chinese egg and the
big white produced by the White Leg
horn hen In California poultry yards.
The poultrymen are now being told
that we must sell our eggs at very
low prices this spring, because imports
ers can get plenty of eggs at very
low prices In China. The Chinese
egg costs the importer about 8 cents
per dozen in Shanghai. California
cannot produce eggs for
double this amount. The Chinese eggs
are sold in large quantities to the
bakeries, delicatessen shops, and res
taurants, and some are now going d.
rect to the retail trade They are
produced by a Chinaman in China who
Is able to Live on $50 year No
white man can compete with this.
Most of US poultrymen pay more
than this amount in taxes. We have
big poultry plants, We have
invested large sums In the necessary
land, and we have established Amer
can homes. The Chinaman does not
pay taxes in this country, and their
Eggs come In duty free, and this is
The opportunity he has long been wa&
ing for. II something Is not done at
once, IL these eggs are permitted to
,ome in right along unchecked, they
will destroy the industry that our poul-
rymen have built up. 1t is unfair and
Unjust to our poultrymen; they abso-
utely cannot meet such competition.
They do not live and they do not pro-
Jose to live as the Cinnamon do in
China.
California poultrymsn feed their
hens the best of wheat, corn and mill
,tuffs. Everything possible Is done
% keep the flock clean and healthy.
The California egg 10 large, clean and
white. The Chinese egg is small, dark
,olored and produced under the vilest
conditions imaginable by native
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