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Uructure tf the Randolph btrert llrMiri- nn tho catt ildc cl Mandolpb btrtcU City cl Chicago OFFICE: 169-179 W. Jackson Blvd. STEEL 804-806 EUton Ave. On Steel Wokks Cover an criminations In frvih'tit charges nmoug other things. Th Federal grand Jury, among Its duties, looks after vlolatloua of tbe Interstate Commerce Lows. The price of went continues to war and Hour. Here la a comparison of present prices with the prices of two years ago: Trice, 1000, Price, 1007, cent. cents. Club steaks 18 22 Porterhouse steaks. IS 22 Sirloin steaks 14 20 Itound steaks 12 10 nib roast beef 14 18 Tork chops 12 14 Veal chops 14 18 Leg of jiiutton .... 10 18 'Mutton chops 1U 22 Ilacon .....' 14 23 Ham 8 12 The packer makes over 50 per cent profit on the best quality of beef, at wholesale prices. Hero aro some fig tires to prou It: What the packer pays: 1,100 average weight choice nnd fancy steers, at ?uG0 per 100 !ounds ' $ 71.50 What tho packer sells: 2 hind quarters, ISO lbs each, at JtKj U"i.UU 2 fore quarters, 150 lbs each, at 10c 30.00 2 shoulder clogs, 0 lbs each, at J C J itiU 4 shanks at 00c 2.40 Hide, average weight 100 lbs, at 7c 7.00 Heart CO Mvtr 75 Wood, dried, 4 lbs, at 2Tie 1.00 Tallow, average from choice ateer (5.00 Tauncb offal 3.00 Jl"flU set U Jloofs, horns, bones and Inside offal 50 Total selling price $107.45 Purchase price 71.50 ' Trofit I 35.05 Dr. A. D. Melvln, chief of tho Itu reau of Animal Industry, In the course of an address to the chief meat Inspec tors' convention at the stock yards last month, declared that It was surpris ing to note the large number of pack ers who Ignored the new national law until the railroads refused their ship ments. "Inspection has lrf-en with drawn from forty-six establishments," said Dr. Melvln. "Of these withdraw nls twelve wero for en use, principally on account of failure to maintain the proper standard of sanitation, nnd wine wero for using prohibited preser vatives. Most of the establishments preferred to forfeit their Interstate ' Hardware and Taols Hats and Caps Incubators and Brooders Jewelry and Silverware Neckwear Nets and Seines Office Supplies Pipes and Smokers' Articles Shirts, Collars and Cuffs Sporting Qoods Shoes Tents and Awnings Trunks and Suit Cases Umbrellas Underwear Watches MMM lickMH J' MM Orem MM NEW YORK tii.,,i..i'"j WAREHOUSE! 178-190 Qulncy Street WORKS: 80-90 Mendel St Area op 109,642 Square Feet trade rather than stand loss from the condemnation of nnlmals nnd meat nnd bear the expense of complying with the sanitary requirements. This latter fact emphasizes tho necessity for a thorough State or city Inspection." To adopt the new charter menus the establishment of an unbroaknble ring In the City Council for four years. Congress should at sace add to tho meat Inspection law these three pro visions : 1 Packers should he obliged to tM'itr till the expense attached to In spection. -'Packers should ho obliged to print dato of canning on the labcla of all cnnnetl goods. '1 All moat In transit should be In spected by the government It will rejoice the public to know that meat condemned because It Is dis eased, la "tanked," stewed Into lard and placed on the market. Illinois la not only the headquarters of the Beef Trust, but the people of Illinois are Its principal victims. In tho course of nn able editorial on "l S. Inspected and Passed" In its lisuo of Dec. 20, 1000, tho Chicago Dally Nows said: "It Is well for the people of Illinois nnd of Chicago to remeinlter, however, that this law applies only to Interstnto and foreign commerce. Whllo the larger packing houses engaged In Interstate nnd foreign business doubtless will pre pare all their product whether for outside or local consumption under the snmo conditions, there Is In the Federal law nothing which of Itself af fords protection to tho local consumer. It Is quite possible that some of the smaller concerns might make n busi ness ofputtlng on tho Illinois and Chi cago market meat products that could, not be exported Into other States. For the protection of local consumers prop er local Inspection may now bo of more Imfiortnnce In some Instances than It was before the passage of the Federal Inspection law." If ymi want to It taxed to death, vote for the new city charter .Sept. 17. If you don't, tote against It. Are all diseased beef carcasses to bo sold to the poor after this, instead of being destroyed by city Inspectors? There Is great graft iu the new char- ter. The people of Chicago are not In favor of Sunday closing. THE BEEF TRUST MUST GO! It Has Fought Every Effort ' to Have Dates Placed Upon Its Canned Goods, and Has Combatted Every Attempt to Make It Pay Costs of Inspection. Now it Has Raised the Price of the Food Products of the Country and Its Assaults Upon the Health of Our Citizens Are Matters of Record. Congress should pass n law com pelling packers t print tho date of the canning mi the label of nil cuius 1 goods eld by them. The fact that the Ileef Trust fousht n prooed law to this effect, last year, only goes to cmphuslzc tho uecoslty that exists for one. Aivordlug to all accounts the canned goods of the Ileef Trust ure bad enough when eomparltlvely new, without un loading on tho public entitled goods that have lieeii years In u wnrehousc. More than that, the government should ctmiiel the packers to pay till tile expenses of meat Inspection. The giriiuient should also lusiiect all meat hi transit. Lately the Meet Trust hnH been branching out and gobbling up other lines of business. It controls the meat business. It controls the poultry trade. It controls the egg market. It controls the hide market. It controls the boot and shoe trade. And lately it has stepped Into tho control of a large part of tho vegetable market. In order that the inultl-nillllonnlrcs at its head may thrive, It has raised the price of living upon the people of the United States. It Is the Ileef Trust and the Dec Trust alone that has made tho cost of living as high as It Is. Tho Ileef Trust buys cattle, swine uud sheep on the hoof for almost noth ing. If you will toko the trouble to look at the mnrket reort of the dally putters you will see that the trust pays from $1.25 to $2 er 100 pounds for cfliuilng cows. This is n cent and a quarter to two cents a pound. For very high gnido meat they pay hs high as live or six cents n pound. Tho trust utilizes every portion of tho cattle, hoofs, horns, Intestines, hide, hair and bones. It could afford to sell the people meat at reasonable prices nnd make u big profit Itself. Hut It Is too hoggish to do this. It has the American public by the throat Mild makes the American public pay outrageous prices. The following from the Chicago Dally Journal market report for .luuo lit, 1007, Is a fair sample of what the Hoof Trust pays for cattle, per 100 iwuuds : Prime fat steers $0.fl0f5i".00 (lood to choice steers...... fl.0OS.5O Medium to good steers .... 5.0fttl.00 Common to medium steers. 5.250 5.00 Inferior killer 4.75(85.15 flood to choice cows 4.00ff4.73 Medium cows .25ia3.S5 Common to good cutters.... 2.50(3.00 Medium to good dinners. ... 1.75'02.4O Inferior canners 1.25 1.00 Prime heifers 4.lOft(5.uo Medium to good heifers.... 3.50(34.25 Common to fair heifers .... 3.00(33.05 (lood to choice bulls 4.5O05.OO ltolognn bulls 3.403.85 flood to choice calves 11.75,7.25 Medium calves 5.00(30.00 Inferior heavy calves 3.00(34.00 Selected feeders 4.l."(f?5.00 Hood feeders 4.40(17 4.00 Medium feeders 4.00H35 Fair to good stoekers .'l.iiOffM.OO Inferior light stoekers U.OOtfiS.CO You will see from tlto above figures that the average price paid by tho Ileef Trust Is about 4 cents a jiound. Hut do the people who huve to pay exorbitant prices for food get good food? Let us look at some of the records of the Chicago Health Department for a reply: The following from the . Chicago Health Department Bulletin of Octo ber 28, 1005, speaks for Itself: The city (inspectors at the Union Stock Yards condemned "FIVE CAT TLB FOUND IN THE COOLERS, WITH A PAHT OF THE EVIDENCE OF TUBEUCULOSI8 THIMMED OUT, AFTKH HAVING BEEN PASSED BY THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS." "They also condemned and destroyed 3,003 pounds of cut meats shipped from St Louis and Kansas city, having passed government Inspecttcn at those places," This shows toe sort of government Inspection we have. If a few of the governmental omis sions are rectified how many thous ands are not? How many hotm In Europe and America are. at this moment harboring cuts of meat from tuberculosis cattle? The above report of the Health Com missioner speaks of meat hanging In the coolers of trust bouses, with taber eulnr tumors "trimmed rmt" nuulw in be cut Into steaks. ' Plunking of the .1.035,000 nounds of food condemned ,n IOCS by Chicago Health Department Inspectors, Dr. C. J. Whalen, Health Commissioner, says In his annual report: "EIGHTY PKIl CENT OF THE MEATS WEItB CONDEMNED ON ACCOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS." "Commenting upon this condition (continues Commissioner ' Whelan), 'American Medicine December 23, says : 'One stands aghast at the crimi nal cupidity which .will Induce men to attempt to sell such dangerous foods to an uususpcctlng community. It Is now In order to go n step .farther and And out who Is rcsKuslblc for this moral obliquity. "It Is well known that combina tions of the larger meat dealers have existed In tho (Mist to the end of rais ing the price of food stuffs beyond the point to which healthy competition would reduce them. The outcry has always been In protest against the In creased cost of living, but hero for the first time nre the combinations which co.v'rol the food supply, broupM t3r direct relation to public bcnltn. "'It Is high time that thli n.Mter be taken out of the class of mlnoi of fenses AND THE DEALERS THEM SELVES LOOKED UPON IN THE LIGHT OF PUBLIC DANGERS. Even to war, when all kinds of brutality are 'wnctioned. It la the height of dis honor oven murder to poison the water supply of a country. Is It any better to poison the food supply? It Is time that the public mind should develop a conscience In this direction.' " Speaking of Beef Trust tuberculosis read the following from the Health De partment Bulletin, November 4, 1003: "The total amount of meats con demned during the period was 1.343,343 pounds. Of the principal causes of condemnation. 85 PER CENT WERE FOR TUBERCULOSIS, 12 per cent for actinomycosis lumpy Jnw nnd 4 iter cent for hog cholera." Health Department Bulletin, Dec. 0, 1005: "A total of 147,000 ouuds of moats was condemned and destroyed (during the past week) under tho su pervision of the department lnsiectors at tho Union Stock Yards. This In cludes 4,083 pounds of govcrnmout-ln-siected cut meats shipped from (lack ing houses In the West for Chicago city trade und canning." The Beef Trust Is getting worse. Health Department Bulletin, Novem ber 11, 1005: "Although the condemnation and de struction of food supplies unfit for human consumption during the past three months since the resumption of Stock Yards liuqiectlon August 7 ult., by order of the Commissioner bavo reached immense proportions, much un fit food still reaches the market Only such nnlmals and meata aa snow gross pathologic conditions, recognisable by the naked eye, are now condemned. Fa cilities for microscopic laboratory ex amination have not yet been restored. "The Union Stock Yards city Inspec tors condemned and destroyed 3(1 parts of beef carcassed, 3 hogs and 0 cattle WHICH HAD BEEN PASSED BY THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS. "The total stock yards condemnations amounted to 170,808 pounds." "Parts of beef carcasses 1" Iu other words It bus been and Is the practice to cut out the cancers and tubercular tumors and let the rest of the carcass go to the people for food! And yet we call ourselves civilized. The Beef Trust will find It bard to get a resting place when the peo ple of this country rise against It aa they surely will. The people of the whole world ure crying for Its exter mination. An average of 50,000 pounds of dis eased meat Is condemned every week by Chicago Health Department Inspectors In butcher shops and grocery and de partment stores "Inside the Union loop." If this great amount of tubercular, cancerous and maggoty material can be found by the Inspectors and destroyed "Inside the loop," a small territory bounded by the river, Van Buren street Wabash and Fifth avenues, bow many million pounds are sold to the public nnd consumed In the vast territory out side the loop? This Is a very pertinent (pestlon. That 50,000 pounds of diseased meat can escniie stockyards Inspection every week nnd find Itself Into department and other stores "Inside the .loop," should sufllce to call attention to the vast nmount of poisonous food that es capes Inspection at the atockyards and ia sold outside the loop. Facta are tacts, and (fare aera Is The moat amazing stupidity conceiv able of any people with foreheads la that they should allow their supply of food to pass Into the hands of one speculative Interest, says Charles Ed- ywuru iiuBBVii in a powenui airicie written Dy mm in tne Appeal to uea son. You can understand bow a care less community might tolerate a mo nopoly of some things, bow It might endure to have Its transportation, for Instance, or Its electric light, control led by one ownership, for men can live without sleeping cars or arc lamps; but that It should tolerate a monopoly of the primal necessity of food Is beyond comprehension nnd without precedent. Even naked sav ages have uniformly been too wise for that, and the only nation that has ever submitted to such a monstrous condition Is our own. From a thousand Illustrations of tho Injuries we all suffer from this Idiotic arrangement let us cite one. There is no way of communicating disease to the human body surer than through Infected meat tissue. Some of the worst and most destructive ba cilli that prey upon mankind nre com mon among tho animals he eats for food. Cows have tuberculosis and spread vast quantities of It through the human population. It Is so com mon among cows that the wise and the forewarned will use none but ster ilized milk. What Is "bog cholera" among swine Is merely typhoid fever In men. Trlcblnea In hogs poisons human beings. Both those diseases nre common among awlne. Worse than all these, and more deadly, la another fact that la seldom commented upon because It la too ap palling to dwell much upon. What Is called ''lumpy Jaw" In cattle la simply cancer The germs of cancer are communicable. Many cattle bave "lumpy Jaw." Any animal with "lumpy Jaw" la unfit for human food. This opens a flold that demands the Immediate attention of tho govern ment. Cancer Is the most terrible of all diseases. After It haa reached a certain stage of development It la ab solutely incurable. Its progress to that stage may be without the pa tient's knowledge or suspicion. Its advance beyond that atage cannot even be checked. It slaya lta victims with the most horrible torture. In this country the recent Increase of this most terrible of human af flictions baa been something to alarm us all. It waa once rare; It now threatens to become common. In the Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870 71, tbe number of cancerous patlenta waa one In 587. In 1001 tbe number waa one In 878. In 1870, wben tbe total population of tbe city waa 216, 239, tbe number of cancer cases re ported at all tbe Institutions waa 42. In 1000, wltb a total population of 325,002, tbe number of cancer cases reported at all tbe Institutions was 108, and In 1008, with about tbe same population, tbe number waa 247. I append the table that abowa tbls as tonishing Increase. Here Is a similar report from two well-known hospitals elsewhere: ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW YORK. Total No. Year. of patlenta. Cancer. 1878 1,055 23 1870 1,017 40 lOoOe MMMMMIIMi 1474 30 1881 ,, 1,855 22 1882 2,160 20 loOQe itMiniMitMi t2f182 86 1884 2,248 37 1885 2,372 22 1880 2,594 9 1887 2,728 77 1888 .2,487 55 I8HB.,,,,,, ....,,.,, ,2,754 70 1800 ... .2,115 ,78 1801 2,704 1802 2,788 1893 284 JOB 1894 2,704 ' 95 1805 :...,.... 8,284 101 lnoQe iMMllltttlltl allS 89 loUTe tel4 p8 1898 8452 M 1899 8,088 JoUUte MMtMMMKI fBtSol 1901 8,770 1902 8474 1903 8468 1904 4JM No report 78 88 114 11B 181 106 PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL. Year. No. treated. Cancer, 1868-69. 2,104 1869-70. 1,987 8 1870-71 ... 1871-72. 2,178 8 1872-78 2,186 18 1878-74 1,888 17 1874-75.., 1,874 17 1875-70 !414 81 187&77t MtiMMMM 1, J Jo 8 lo777oe f Mttftfttltt 18BI 88 1878-79. 1478 18 vm ,i si '18S0-81 2,179 18 1881-82 2)184 15 1882-83 2.130 17 1883-84 2,186 14 1884-85 2,200 27 1806-97 2,801 87 1807-08 3,241 08 1808-00 3,807 04 1800-00. 19004)1 1001-02 .. 1902-03 4,005 67 1903-04 4,337 61 From 1885 to 1800 tbe figures are' missing. These nre sample pages from the dreadful records. The trend of medi cal Investigation has been toward the conclusion that the origin of tho bu rn nn cancer Infection Is to be found In meat. It Is no longer held to he possible that cancer or a tendency to cancer qnn be Inherited. The Infec tion Is duo always to an active aueft taken In some way Into the system. The meat of cattle alllleted with "lum py Jaw" would be such an ngent. There come to the slaughter houses of the trust, week by week, many cat tle alllleted with "lumpy Jaw." What becomes of them? I don't know; you don't know: no body knows outside of the products of the slaughter houses. And yet there can be no question to a man who desires to live that Is of greater Importance than tills. Tho op erations of those slaughter houses are conducted behind closed doors. No outsider Is allowed to glimpse what goes on there. No representative of the public ever gets behind that cur tain. You can go there nnd be enter tained with n fake exhibition of fake slaughtering conducted as a public spectacle. That amounts to nothing. The real work no one ever sees but the employes, Whut becomes of tho diseased rat tle? Theoretically they are burned and converted Into fertilizer. Who sees the burning? Who knows thatvlt is done or how It Is done? Nobody out side of the employes. All we kuow Is that "lumpy law" Is cancer; that many cattle have "lumpy Jaw;" that "lumpy Jaw" Is communicable nnd Unit cancer frightfully Increases. The Loudon Lancet, the leading medical Journal of Europe, sent a man to Chicago to Investigate, so far as ho could, tho slaughtering processes of the trust houses. He returned with a reve lation that should havo'called for gov ernment Investigation. He declared that the methods employed wore most unsanitary, That the work was done In a hurried, careless, slipshod way; that there wus no tolerable inspection or sanitary supervision; that tbe health of the world waa menaced by those conditions. To this scathing Indict mont from a great medical authority no serious defense waa ever made. Subsequently, there appeared In Jamestowu, N. Y., a remarkable book, "The Dark Side of tbe. Beef Trust," apparently written by an expert, sup plementing the charges of tbe Lancet niut enforcing them wltb such details as could hardly bave been supplied by anything but personal knowledge. The wuoie process or manufacture In tbe trust houses was followed wltb minute euro and the charge wus explicitly made that careleesnos reigned every where; that Impure pruuueta were ha bitually sent out for consumption; that meat fit only for destruction wus ha bitually worked up with spices und drugs to' disguise Its taste and sold to the public. To this extraordinary array of spe cific assertions no answer waa ever made. Here, then, are two witnesses that solemnly declare that tbe conditions In the trust slaughter bouses are exactly aucb as would allow tne meat of "lumpy Jaw" cattle to be sent out aa food. Suppose that we take of tbe matter the most charitable view possible. Suppose we aaaume that tbe trust gen tlemen are moat scrupulous about all tbe ways In -which they make money, Suppose we forget about tbe soldiers poisoned by embalmed beef, tbe games of gouge and robbery practiced by tbe trust refrigerator car' lines, tbe manip ulation of a thousand markets for profits, tbe tribute levied by tbls com bination upon all households In the country. Let us forget that they are law-breakers and money-mad and as-J sume that not one of tbem would touch a cent of questionable profits. Still tbls question stares ua In tbe face: Bow do we know what becomes of tbe "lumpy Jaw" cattle? How do tbe trust gentlemen know? Their employee are employed to make much money for tbe trust gen tlemen. How do we know the waya In which tbe money la made? How do tbe trust gentlemen knowl Here la a stream of tbe moat terrlbje Infection passing dally within a few Usm ef the aattoa's , food gff4ff How do wo know that sufficient pre cautions aro taken to prevent contaal nation? How do tho trust gentlemen know They Inform us that what goes oat behind the walls, of their plants to their own affair; that Is, their busi ness: they will mnnnge It as they ae fit. Whose affair Is It, then, If tbe nation cats diseased meat, If we are isilsoned by trichinae, If cancer Is creases? Other countries are not so dull M we are about these things. Other1 countries understand very well tbe monstrous perils Involved In tbe meth ods of this monopoly, nnd, therefore, try to exclude American meats. To quiet their objections the United States Is supposed to keep an Inspector upon meat Intended for cxHrt nnd to place iiion It an'oillclnl stamp certify ing that It Is lit Jor food. If, then, these arc. tho methods In regnrd to oximrt liecf, about which there Is nominal Inspection, what do you suppose nro tho methods about meat for domestic consumption, on which there Is no Inspection at all? Why was the Beef Trust allowed, to go on year after vear violation tb inr and no attempt made to prevent It? Vt by nre the laws Inert ngatnst this criminal organization? Wbv Is n mn sent to prison for flvo years for forg ing a nvc-uoiiar check and these men go free for swindling a nation? Why do we contribute our dollar year after year to swell unnecessary hoards? Why nre we content to bave our food prepared for us In secret under conditions that to any sane mind cer tainly suggest fraud und treachery? We are not obliged to have these things If we do not want them. Tbe remedies nro simple enough. As to the "lumpy Jaw," the tubercu losis and the cancer, put a stop to prl-' vnto slaughtering. Lot nil the slaugh tering of food animals be douo by tbe State In thoMluht of da v. wlttmut n of this dark lantern busluoss, on equal terms for nil. Tbero nro very few private slaughter houses In England. 'ino citios mm towns run their slaugh ter houses under medical Inspection. But In England the people do not care to be iralsondu In tholr moat And we need not worrr about tiu nk. Jectlou that publicly owned slaughter bouses are an Invasion of tbe private riguta or business. Wben It cornea to life and death there are no nrivat rlgbta of business. No man baa a rbjM to saved profits that be makes If spreading disease. We bave gone to rar on ine roau to puuuo sanitation to turn back bcause some gentleman's profits nre threatened. Tbe State wIM not allow you to so around with una it. pox or to conceal scarlet fever In your bouse, although each may be atrictly your own affair. Compared wltb can cer, smunpox ana scarlet fever at nothing. If tbe State can take radical measures to stamp out cholera It can take radical measures to atamn not cancer, a million times worse than cholera, If It can provide pest bouses for public safety It can provide slaugh ter bouses for public safety. And Its duty In tbe one case Is at least aa clear as In tbe other. The Eagle's prediction tliat tho Beef Trust would raise, the price of food on the icoplc has lcen fulfilled. The action of tho packers Is expected to araiiso particularly those members of Congress who hnve Insisted that tbe packers , should ay the cost of the meat Inspection, for which Congress now appropriates $3,000,000 annually. One of tho arguments used against tbls protosul has lieen tho allegation that the packers would at once shift tbe cost of the Inspection to tbe cattle miners. Now that tho packers propose to shift the loss from condemned car casses while n't the same time tbey profit by the advertisement of the gov eminent guaranty of tho wholesome uess of their products the proponents of the plan fo make them pay for tbe government Inspection Insist they bave an argument. Senators Beverldge, of Indiana, and Gnlllnger, of New Hamp shire, have already promised to renew tbe fight In tbe next Congress. Congress should at once add to foe meat Inspection luw these three pro visions : 1 Packers should be obliged to bear all the expense attached to In spection, 2 Packers should be obliged to print date of caunlug ou,the labels of all canned goods. 3 All meat In transit should be In spected by the government.