Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-30
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that 1t Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

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@From 1886 to 1906 the figures arc
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of mcdi-
cnl investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin of the hu.
man cancer infection II to he found
In meat. 1t is no longer held to he
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The inrcc.
tiOn Ii due always to nm active agcpt
taken In some way into the system.
The meat of cattle afflicted with "lum.
!, by jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week. many cnt.
tie afflicted with "lumpy jaw What
becomes of them?
l don't know: you don't know: no.
body knows outside of the precincts of
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can he no question to
a man who desires to live that Is of
greater Importance than this. The op.
cratiOns 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.
tnin. You cnn 20 there and he enter.
tnlned with fake exhibition Of fake
Strengthening conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
Tie real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tie! Theoretically they IRE burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burningY Who knows that It II
done or how II II done? Nobody out.
side Of tho employees. All we know
IL TINT "lumpy law" II cancer; thnt
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" II communicable ana that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical Journal OF Europe. sent man
to Chicago to investigate. NO far ~ H.
could. the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. lie returned with reve.
luton that should have called for gov.
eminent investigation. He declared
TINT the methods employed were most
uilsnnitary. Tint the work was done
In Il hurried. careless. slipshod way:
TINT there WIS no tOler,ble inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was mennced by these
conditions. To this scathing indict.
mcnt from a great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently. there appeared II,
jamestown, n. y, u remarkable book,
'"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plcmcntlng the charges Of the Lancet
and enforcing them with such details
M could hardly have been supplied by
anything but personal knowledge. The
whole process OF manufacture In the
trust houses was followed with minute
cure ana tho charge was explicitly
made that carelcssncss rcIgned every.
where; TINT impure products were IN.
bltually sent out for consumption: that
meat lit only for destruction was In.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste ana sold to
the public.
TO this extraordinary array of spe.
ellie assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here. then. are two witnesses that
sOlennly declare that the conditions In
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such III would allow the meat OF
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out as
food.
Suppose that we take Of the matter
the most charitable view possible.
Suppose we assume that the trust gen-
tlemen are most scrupulOus about all
the ways In which they make money.
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
OF gouge ana robbery practlced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulation of II thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this COM
binatlOn upon all households In the
country. Let III forget that they are
law-brcakers and money-mad ana as.
sumo that not one of them would
touch cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares us In the
face: How do we know what becomes
OF the "lumpy jaw cattleY
InWy 1ln tl,n t,,,at ,-- =,
Their employees are employed to
make much money for tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the WAYS
In which the money IL made?
How do the trust gentlemen know ?
Here IL II stream of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within u few
Inches of the nations food supply.
How do we know that sufficient pre-
cautions are taken to prevent cOntami-
nation?
How do the trust gentlemen know ?
They inform us that what goes on
behind the walls OF their plants IL
their own affair; that Is. their busi-
ness; they will manage 1t ~ they see
tit. Whose affair Is 1t. then, II the
nation eats diseased meat, II We are
poisoned by trlchinae, IL cancer In
creases?
Other countries are not so dull as