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TXXB3 OHIOAOO ICA.C:riBJ. TUBERCULOSIS AND CANCER IN CHICAGO BEEF! BEEF TRUST IS BAD. It Aims at the Lives, the Health and the Pockets of Chicago Citizens. BUY APPENDICITIS. Beef Trust Patrons Have a Chance to Get All They Want of It. s I ' I :ft Frightful Food Thrown Into This City While the Government In spectors Sit Supinely By. Wbnt kind of government Inspection hnve we been getting of Into lu the matter of beef, pork and other food products? What sinister Influence Is nt work to poison the people of Chicago lu the In terest of corporate monopoly? If It Is the Beef Trust, the people should drive It out of the Statel In one year the people of Chicago would have served on their tables 7,141,1110 pounds of diseased meats, fish, poultry and vegetables If It were not for the activity of the city health Inspectors. According to the report of Dr. Charles J. Whalcn, Health Commis sioner, the government inspectors have been derelict in their work and for years Chicago markets have been vend ing stuff that Is unlit to cat. In one week, ending Nor. 18, this Is what the city Inspectors condemned and destroyed: Two hundred nnd eleven cattle, 07, 8) pounds; 771 hogs, 120,002 pounds; forty sheep,, 1,410 pounds; three calves, 980 pounds; fourteen quarters of beef, 88 pounds; total weight, 232,000 pounds. Condemned and destroyed after pass lag government Inspection: Fourteen quarters of beef, 0,388 pounds; four cattle, 1,407 pounds; total weight, 7,885 pounds. Inspectors in the "loop district" con demned and destroyed 31,830 pounds of meats, flsh, fruits and vegetables. Three lots of bams nnd bacon, weighing 3,025 pounds, were condemn ed by the Inspector nt the wholesale markets before 8 o'clock n. m. This material had been sent to Chicago from St. Louis and Omaha, having been rejected thore. Suit has been entered against eight markets for violating of the ordinance which forbids tbo hanging or exposing of dressed meats on the street Dr. Wbalen sums up the results achieved by his department from the time city inspection was resumed as follows: Since Aug. 7 the weekly condemna tions of unfit food have averaged 137, 300 pounds of meats, flsh, poultry, etc., and 23,100 pounds of fruit and vege tables, which, If maintained for the year, would make an aggregato of 7,141,310 pounds of meat, etc., nnd of 1,201,200 pounds of fruits and vege tables condemned and destroyed as un fit for human food. The principal causes of meat con demnation wcro tuberculosis, "lumpy Jaw," hog cholera, Immaturity, and emaciation; of fish, "taint" and stale ness, and of fruit and vegetables, rot tenness. Under date of Nov. 17 the chief meat Inspector at the Union stock yards re ports to the director of tbo laboratory that "as a result of tho activity of tho city meat Inspectors in condemning, tanking, and destroying emaciated and tuberculosis cattle In tho "coolers" after they bad been passed by tho gov ernment Inspectors, tho packers aro nil vising shippers not to send such ani mals Into this market. Tho condemned food has been found not only In the stock yards, but In pri vate markets and tho big cold-storago warehouses. It has been found In trnn lt from other big meat packing cen ters nnd In rare Instances ulready pre pared for tho table. Dr. Whalcn says tho city has a big problem to crush out this Immoral nnd dangerous traffic, and ho will resort to every legal rcsourco to brlug his cru sade to a successful end. Tho beof trust Is aiming to control tho next legislature. Of what uso Is tho Illinois Pure 1'ood Law, when millions of chickens, turkeys nnd geeso aro kept lu cold Htorngo within tho Stato for years, with their entrails undrawn? These Beef Trust delicacies nro said to ho responsible for much sickness and ter rible disease. Tho price of shoes Is order of tho Beef Trust, iiered tho hide market. going up by It hns car- Do not vote for any man for the legislature who is not known to be an enemy of tho Ilcef Trust. How many Congressmen who nro not controlled by Trust? havo wo tho Beef Tho Beef Trust owned Legislature of Illinois passed a law limiting tho liability of any corporation taking a human llfo to 5,000. And tho peoplo sit supine and permit this sort of thing! Tho Beef Trust lobby would well In thu hamlH of a mob. look Tho Beef Trust has raised tho prlco of shoes by raising tho prlco of hides. Governor Douglas of Massachusetts is a largo manufacturer of shoes. Ho tends a delegation of tho Hoot and Shoo Manufacturers to appeal to tho President to remove the duty on hides, so that they will bo cheaper. This country produces more hides than It needs to shoe Its people; but the Deef Trust controls these hides. The Deef Trust raises the prlco of hides. This raises the price of leather, and this In turn V ltnlses the the price of shoes. So tho Deef Trust is becoming the oppressor of the poor lu tho matter of food and raiment. The Legislature to bo elected nest fall must take steps to drive out Tbo Ilecf Trust, The l'atent Medicine Trust, The Life Insurance frauds, nnd The manufacturers who oppose the pure food laws, If Illinois is to take her proper place In tho sisterhood of States. New York is showing an example to tho wholo country In the vim and vigor with which she is going after the life Insurance frauds. Tho developments in this Investiga tion show the methods that these com panies have used In tbo New York Stato Legislature, and which they have, presumably, used In the Illinois Stato Legislature. Hut where the Insurance crooks harmed one man, the Beef Trust hnrms a million men. The Beet Trust goes into every man's home and taxes every mouthful of meat that be cats. It starves his family and puts the necessaries of llfo beyond the reach of tho common people. It is enabled to do this through the crookedness of our legislators, who are controlled by Beef Trust agents. The Beef Trust maintains a strong lobby at Springfield and kilts nil leg islation which it does not like and looks out for legislation strictly to its interest. The peoplo are forgotten. But if the people are forgotten, they do not forget. They remember the steady influence of the Beef Trust at Springfield and they also remember tbnt while Mis souri and othor neighboring States aro moving against tho gigantic and rob blng combines that Illinois is supine. Cheaper meat and better moat is sold to tho peoplo of the Eastern States than to tho peoplo of Illinois, bocnuso tho peoplo of tho Eastern States will not stand for so much cor ruption in their State Legislature as Illinois does. Tho Beef Trust is doing more to wards bringing on n great and bloody revolution In tho United States than all other agencies combined, Tho Beef Trust regulates tho price of food and laughs at tho law. Tho Beef Trust must go. Tho Beef Trust must go. Tho number of momitcrs of the pres ent Legislature controlled by tho Beef Trust Is known to a limn. Tho Beef Trust has triumphed In tho councils of tho Itepubllcau party nt Washington, There will bo no hostile legislation this winter. Tho Presi dent's message on tho subject of rail road discrimination tho Beef Trust's long suit was surprlslugly weak, com ing from him. All of which means that Dcpow nnd tho other railroad men anil trust magnates are bossing tho Ite publlcau policy In Congress. And It means also that tho Democrats will sweep tho country next fall from tho Atlantic to tho Pacific. Remember tho Beef Trust when you nro nominating candidates for tho Legislating this year. Illinois Is not only tho headquarters of thu Beef Trust, but tho peoplo of Illinois aro Its principal victims. Tho Illinois Legislature will cither get after iho Beef Trust or tho peoplo will get after tho Illinois Legislature. The Beef Trust slaughter houses nro llko morgues. Tho Beef Trust mag nates love to pralso their cleanliness In mngazlno articles. Of course tho.so slaughter Joints nro cleanly. Thoy have to bo. Thoy nro snnltary.In near ly every respect. Tho only unsani tary things about tho Trust slaughter houses aro tho cancerous cattle, tho tuberculosis cows and tho trichina hogs. Tho surroundings havo to bo kept cleanly, llko all buildings dovot ed to tho euro of cadavers. Kven tho embalmed beef turned out by tho Trust Is sanitary from an ombnlmer's standpoint. Tho Beef Trust Is commencing to squirm. Tho public Is going to get homo startling facts before long. An opinion given by Attorney General .Stead to the Illinois live stock board THE says the board has no right to pass ou slaughtered animals, but must con lino Its Inspection to live stock. The opinion -advises the board that it would have no staudlng as party to a suit to enjoin tho Chicago health de partment from condemning carcasses passed by the 8tnte and government Inspectors. "This opinion," said Sec retary Prltchard of tho health depart- ment, "strcngtuens mo citys ciaims to bo supremo In tho inspection of meat." Many of tho Beef Trust employes wear rubber gloves whllo handling tho cadavers. Othcrwlso they are in imminent danger of blood poisoning. Even tho embalming of food for the gulllblo public has Its attendant dan gers. The number ofilead and diseased bogs shipped by tho Beef Trust and sold as food is something awful. Numbers of hogs dlo in tho cars in transit to tho Beef Trust: their bodies aro often eaten by the other hogs and their pet disease transmitted by them to the human race. The government Inspectors If they work every mlnuto of their time, can glvo but ten seconds to each animal in spected. No wonder cancer, lupus, tuberculosis and llko aliments aro spreading. Tho Beef Trust has ruined many a prosperous small, business. Tho hldo Industry, tbo boot nnd shoo trade, tho sheepskin tanners, tho leather tunnors, tho wool pullers, tho wool trade, tho vegotablo market, tho poultry busi ness, tho retail meat markets, tho wholcsalo meat markets, tho soap trade all theso nnd many inoro have been swallowed up by this awful lovlathan. How much longer will. tho peoplo stand It? How much longer will tho American peoplo put up with diseased food? A correspondent asks: "How mnny of tho representatives of foreign gov ernments nro In tho pay of tho Beef Trust? It might Interest tho peoplo of somo of them to find out." Peoplo out of town and newsdealers In other cities ordering extra coplos of tho Chicago Eaglo Beef Trust edi tions must plnco their orders beforo Wednesday of each week. Tho demand for papers Is so great that unless orders for them are placed early It will bo impossible to till all of them as promptly as wo would wish. Dealers lu Germany, Franco and Great Britain must lncloso postnge with their orders. Peoplo who think that they get good meat nro Invited to rend tho follow ing clipped from tho llvo stock report of tho Chicago Dally News, January 0, 1000: "Quality of offerings was not good. It was such as tho trndo usually looks for on Tuesday, with tho Wisconsin shipments largely predominating. It was not tho nbsenco of good finished stuff that mado tho slow market, how evor, lis tho buyers wcro geuornly looking for low-priced' cnttle. Ship pers had only a few orders at most, nnd tho great percentage of thorn wero for plain finished cattlo. Slnco tho ending of tho western senson thero has gcnornlly been as good a domain! for tho commoner sorts of cattlo as for tho hotter priced steers. A fow toppy kinds havo reached $0.23 this week, but thoy aro as scurco as tho proverbial hen's teeth," Wo do not sco any quotations In tho dallies on trichina hogs, Tho public (McTulswho nro con trolled by tho Beef Trust will bo known beforo long. All tho rotten old Beef Trust lobby Ists, consisting of crooked lawyers, castoff politicians and scarecrow states men, nro gottlng ready. But when the BEEF TRUST 18 BO88. Illinois Legislature, meets theso worthies will be pointed out so that ho who runs may read. Fcoplo must remember thnt the city had only eleven inspectors at work ou cattle, hogs, sheep and provisions. Necessarily their work must hnve been very Incomplete when there wcro 300,000 cattlo a week to Inspect. Tu berculosis and cancer arc bound to bo shipped to all quarters as food. How many government officials docs the Beef Trust control? Beef Trust cold storage Is n bad thing. Yet It Is popular Just now. The rotten food turned out In tho shapo of diseased poultry from Beef Trust roosts Is thus touched upon by Health Com missioner Whalcn, of Chicago, In his annunl report: "Cold storago Is one of our present necessities, but It Is evident that It has been shamefully misused by dis honest men. While certain articles of food aro better nftcr more or less prolonged storage, certain fruits nnd vegetables spoil so soon nftcr removal from the cold storago as to give a very unfavorable Impression. "Again, poultry or gnnio Is often stored in an undrawn condition nnd Is afterward sold to tho public. Attention has been called to many cases of ptomalno poisoning resulting from eat ing gnmo or poultry which bad been stored In an undrawn state. The real evil comes from frecxlng mora or less tainted meats nnd flsh. , Tho process of decay Is checked, but tho ptomaines remain. Tho purchaser does not detect any odor, but a gnstro-ontcrltls Is apt to result nono the less. "Thero Is n 'suspicion thnt much of tho sickness contracted lu strange hotols, Is thus caused." Dally News cattlo report January 10: "Quality was rather poor, offers run ning largely to canners nnd cutters. Bull trade was steady at yesterday's decline. Bologna bulls wcro taken more readily than tho fat sorts." Tho Standard Oil - Trust docs not sell cancer or tulterculosls to Iho ioo pie. But tho Nowspnpor Trust finds abundant space to dvoto to tho OU Trust but has not a lino for tho Beef Trust. Why? Why Is not tho Illinois Anti-Trust lnw strictly enforced against tho real trusts? Tho law Is upon tho statuto books and Is rigidly lived up to as against small nnd honest corporations which aro obliged to muko affidavit once n year und send tho samo with ono dol lar to Springfield to prove that they are not lu u trust. A Trust hns no moro standing In lnw In Illinois than a Burglar. Both exist lu violation of tho law nnd both nro felons lu the eyes of tho lnw. Tuberculosis and cancer can now go Into every homo without let or hindrance. Tho Health Department, after proving thnt tons of tuberculosis aro dumped 'on tho market every week, has discharged Its Inspectors! Tho Beof Trust absolutely controls legislation in Illinois. It does as it pleases with tho peoplo. Why does not tho Attorney General of Illinois get nftor tho Beef Trust ou tho following points: Anti-Trust Lnw Violated. It Is vio lating tho trust laws of Illinois by par celing out territory between subordin ate coucorns. In being an organization In restraint of trndo besides violating ovcry do tall of tho Anti-Trust law. Fraud lu Products Sold Millions of pounds of beef, pork, mutton, sausage and othor products have been sold un der fnlso nainos und fnlso representa tions, containing materials other than thoso represented to tho buyer. Fraud lu Beef Sold Millions of pounds of Inferior beef havo been sold to government and private consumers, Killing Independent Concerns Tho Beof Trust has organised and still Is organising fako Independent com panies as a final dospcrate measure to crush competitors who rcfuso to buy of tho trust Rebates to Dealers In every town nt least ono principal dealer gets a secret rcbato In consideration of his agreement to buy no "outside" or In dependent beef; pork or mutton. Secret Scrvlco Methods Canvass ers nro sent out In tho gulso of dis tributors to secure tho names of per sons buying Independent beef. Crushing Competitors Beef Is sold nt cost und below until. Independent competitors aro driven out What did that delegation of Stock Yards commission men ask the mayor to do? Did they ask him to order tho city health Inspectors out of the Stock Yards? Why did tho city administration point with pride to the fact that it protected tho peoplo of Chicago from tho Beef Trust for five months and then flunk? Did tbo same Influences affect this administration that health officials charged tho Harrison administration with truckling to? Is thero any ono so base that he would sacrlflco tho work of honest health Inspectors and Imperil tho lives of every mnu, woman and child in Chicago to oblige somo political friends? Or nro thero deeper reasons? Speak out, somebody, for hell Is not hot enough to roast a man who would bow to tho Beef Trust in a matter of tuberculosis and cancer. How many murders is tho Beef Trust guilty of In Chicago? now many Innocent peoplo nro killed every year by tuborculosls und cancer? Thoro will bo somo music over tho Beof Trust when tho next Illinois Leg islature meets. Tho Beef Trust controls tho food supply of tho American peoplo. Tho Beof Trust is bringing on a revolution. What object can tho members of tho Beef Trust havo In opposing tho Illi nois pure food laws and wanting them amended? Why is Illinois ufruld to tackle tho Beef Trust? Tho Beef Trust saturates Chicago with stenches from its rendering es tablishments nud gtuo factories. It robs tho peoplo of Chicago through Its control of tho prlco of tho food thoy cat and tho leather they wear. Tho Beof Trust counts on n solid legislative delegation from Cook Coun ty which will favor mouopoly and en courage high prices. Chicago Is tho home and tho head quarters of tho Boef Trust Tho American peoplo must put an ciid to tho Beef Trust or suffer tho eonscqueuces of bad food. How mnny lumpy-Jaw cattlo aro slaughtered by tho Beef Trent overy day and fed to tho people? Tho Englo feels nigliiy compliment ed over tbo wuy Its reading mutter Is stolen aud reprinted without credit. But It feels sorry that the able editors who steal it cannot glvo it a wider circulation than they do. As the Eagle reaches its rcadors at least twenty four hours earlier than tho principal purlolners, tho thefts aro easily recog nized. The Beef Trust counts upon electing a majority of tho Illinois dologatlon to Congress next year. Now that tho city has quit Inspect ing, thore is nothing to prevent the Beef Trust from spreading tubsreulo sis und cancer broadcast The Real Cause of the Disease Is Bad Meat Beyond Doubt. Appendicitis Is a Beef Trust dis ease. It comes from tho breakfast delica cies mado out of canuer vows und trichina pork. The Trust sausage is one of tho won ders of creation. It is mado out of tho cheapest meat and tho trimming of canners, lumpy Jaw cattle and deud swine. After being thoroughly mixed with a horrlblo concoction known to tho trade as potato flour, this chopped, stamped, crushed and chemically treat ed meat Is stuffed Into tho frequently diseased guts of dead animals and is sold to tbo public as sausage. Dcsplto tho chemicals compounded with the "meat" to make It smell "natural," both tho compound Itself, as well as tbo "casing," as tbo gut is now called, aro frequently the ubodo of micro-organisms. It is these micro-organisms that cause appendicitis. Tho word appendicitis means an In flammation oftbo vermiform appendix, which lies lu the lower right hand cor ner of tho abdomen. The vermiform appendix Is a sack attached to the Intestine. It Is into this resting place that the microbes crawl and causo trouble. Tho real trichina microbe which Is very abundant lu pork, and for which no search Is made by tbo Beef Trust, cats through all tho human Intestines, and, playing no favorites, Is alwuys fatal. But tbo bad meat microbe, which causes appendicitis, has not strength enough to bora through tbo intestines. It merely crawls into the first and only stopping place In tbo bowels the vermiform appendix and hero it works away until it starts inflamma tion. When the first physicians began to realise the etiological importance of tbo appendix in intestinal Inflamma tion, it was thought that seeds or oth er offending material becamo lodged therein, but many operations soon proved tbo contrary, for ofttlmcs no foreign bodies wero found lu It, and other abdominal operations often show ed collections in tho appendix that had caused no trouble. Most of tho best physicians and tho ablest surgeons aro now convinced that appendicitis is cnused by bad meat. Tho disease, singularly ouougb, was never beard of uutll Beef Trust meth ods begau to prevail lu this country, and now it Is to bo found wherever Beef Trust products havo a sale According to tho United States cen sus, 5,111 persons died from uppcudl- cltls lu 1000. The discaso was not even mentioned in tho United States census report of 1800 ten years beforo be cause thero woro no cases and no deaths. How is that for tho work of tbo Beet Trust? Now tho city Inspection has been stopped aud that It was always the habit to uso tho carcases of caucerous or lumpy Jawed cattlo after tho can cers wero cut out, tho public is prob ably getting a fuller dose of lumpy Jawed cattlo for food tbau ever. Ou tbo very day tbat tbo city discontinued Its luspectlon nnd coudomuatlon, tbo Commissioner of Health of Chicago is sued tbo following remarknblo Instruc tions lu his bulletin of December 30, 1005: "Tho Commissioner has Issued the following Instructions to tho chief in spector ut tho Union Stock Yards: "'Whllo actinomycosis is usually confined to tho head, aud may bo said iu ono 8ouso to bo a localized disease, and whllo somo Inspectors coudem'n only tho part Involved, I bellovo it is safest aud most practicable to condemn tho entlro carcass wherever tho acti nomycotic abscess opeus luto the mouth, pharynx, larynx or any part of tho digestive or respiratory tract; of when the lymphatic glands are Invoh ed; or where thero aro actinomycotic tuuiors lu tho lungs; or wbon the le sions havo become generalised, since generalization In actinomycosis appears to run n very ntyplc course, making tho detection of all foci inside the musclo very difficult ; thoreforo, the eu tiro carcass Is to be condomued. "'In cases where tbo actinomycotic lesions are positively localized, the ln footed part may be cut away and the remains of the carcass used. "These instructions apply only to "lumpy Jaw." Thero muy bo othor reasons why you should want to con demn a carcass, and It Is then a mat ter of Judgment for you and yonr men. But you should never hesitate to con demn If you believe the animal to be not fit for human food.'" Tbo spirits of thousands of poor boys woo went out to fight for the United States In the gpantsn-Amerl-cuu war, must hover over the fortunes of the Beef Trust In a demand for vengeance I These thousands were killed by toe "embalmed beef" of tbo Beof Trust and by tho poisons used In the makeup of their Beef Trust rations. Neither tho bullets of the Spaniards or tho terrors of the Cuban climate did any havoc to tho American soldier, poor boy, at all comparable with tho dntungo dono by tho frightful embalm ed food of tho Beef Trust. Tho young fellows who offered their lives to the American government did) not for a moment Imngino that the country for which they were fighting would permit a Beef Trust to furnish them with poisoned rations. But it did. Tho soldiers trusted their country and ate tho poison. The result was death, disease, broken constitutions for thousands. Theso aro facts which the war rec ords will corroborate. Tho Importation of foreign serf who work for wages tbat no Amcrlcnn could live upon, is ono of the policies of tbo Beef Tntst, aud ono tbat l attracting wldo spread attention. In their efforts to breakdown tbo high Ideals of Labor, tbo Trust Is forcing somo of Its Importations to adopt has ardous methods of .gaining a liveli hood. This fact has created condi tions thai even tho novelist Is looking up. Tho announcement Is mado by Doublcday, Page ft Co. that they will publish Upton Sinclair's now book, "Tho Jungle," February 15. It Is tho most startling book written In America In many years and wilt doubtless cro ato n profound sensation. "The Jun glo" Is first of all a novel, of real peo ple of today; but It Is Incidentally a searching expose of the horrlblo living and working conditions In Packing- town, Chicago, from tbo point of view of the working man, told with candor and almost brutal realism. "Tho Junglo" narrates the adven- tures of a family of Lithuanians emi grants, which comes to America In search of fortune, nnd shows the conditions that turn tho hero for a time into a criminal and a tramp. So terrible was the picture painted and so serious tho charges mado against tho conditions in tho packing trade that Doubleday, Pago ft Co. sent a well-known New York lawyer to Chi cago to mnko an Investigation. Ho reported thnt tho book was true In every essential detail. Every render to whom 'tho manu script of "Tho Junglo" was submitted agreed tbat It was an unforgettable book. Somo compared it to Zola, ami all agreed that It was a remarkable human document. Jack London has called It "tho Undo Tom's Cabin of wngb slavery," while David Graham Phillips has declared It "the greatest novel published In America In fifty years." Mr. Sinclair, wbo bas had a most interesting career himself, Is the ' well-known author of "Manassas" and "Prince Hngon." What other political associations be sides tho Harrison Democracy does, tho Beef Trust own In Chicago? Why not let tho Beof Trust nnmo the government beof Inspectors at Chica go? Why did tho Stato Llvo Stock Board wish to enjoin tho city of Chi eugo from destroying tuberculous nnd cancerous cattlo after government nud Stato Inspectors had approved them, aud after tho city Inspectors had con demned them? If Mayor Duuno's administration de stroyed over .'1,000,000 pounds of can cerous nud tuberculous meat In live mouths, by thu luspectlon work of only eloven Inspectors, how many bil lions of pounds of cancor and tuber culosis wero fed to tho peoplo during tho years that thero wus no city in spection? The Beef Trust Is arranging to con trol tho next Illinois Legislature abso lutely. By the way, wbo did tho city hall, collecting from tbo Ico Trust last year? Hogs that go to England and the United States are not examined for trichina. All hogs for Germany,. Franco and Austria are. Some escape, though. By tho way, what is Dr, Dyson, wbo used to be government chief Inspector, doing now? The Beef Trust will get its desert before mnny years roll by. The Trust press cannot hide the truth from Un people. Little by little they will learn the facts, and when they do waM tP you will bear an explosion. top the Tuberculosis Trustl '..-,C f. J- . j ' t. ' tfrtWiiflK, Aj-ixstrt ' I 'i.. !,.' i,I'Ii'2is