Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-27

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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of medl.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer Infection In to be found
In meat. II IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec-
ton is due always to an active agent
taken in some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with 'luin.
py 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?
don't know; you don't know; no.
body knows outside Of the precincts Of
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
q man who desires to live that 10 Of
greater Importance than this. The op.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. N0
outsider In allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 90 there and be enter.
tained with q fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted % . public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing
The real work NO one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tie? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilixer. Who sees
the burningf Who knows that It ID
done or how Il 10 done3 Nobody out
side Of the employees. All We know
IL that "lumpy law" IL cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" In communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sent q mar
to Chicago to investigate. 20 far a. hc
could, the slaughtering processes Of thu
trust houses. He returned with revs
lati0n that should have called for gov
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were mos,
unsanltary. That the work was done
In q hurried. careless, sllpslt6d way
that there was no t0lerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
Of the world was menaced BY those
conditions. To this scathing indlct
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown, n. T., q remarkable book
''1'he Dark Side Of the Beef Trust,
apparently written by an expert. sup
plementlng the charges Of the Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
as could hardly have been supplied BY
anything but personal knowledge. Tht
whole process Of manufacture In thu
trust houses was followed with mlnut.
care ana the charge was explicitly
made that carelessness rcigned every
where; that impure products were ha
bltually sent out for c0nsumpt ption; thai
meat nt only for destruction was ha
bitually worked up with spices ant
druRs to disguise its taste and sold Il
the public.
To this extraordinary array Of spe
cifc assertions NO answer was evel
made.
Here. then. are two witnesses tha
solemnly declare that the conditions II
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such as would allow the meat Ol
"lumpy Jaw" cattle to be sent out q
food.
Suppose that We take Of the mattel
the most charitable view possible
Suppose We assume that the trust gen
tlemen are most scrupulous about al
the ways In which they make money
Suppose we forget about the soldier
poisorsd by embalmed beef, the eamel
Of gouge aud robbery practiced BY th'
trust refrigerator car lines. the manip
ulation Of q thousand markets f0l
profits, the tribute levied by this com
bination upon oil households In tn,
country. Let 10 forget that they arr
law.breakers and noney.mad and as
sumo that not one OF them woult
touch a cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares 10 In th'
face: How do we know what become,
Of the ''lumpy jaw" cattleF
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed t
make much money for the trust gen
tlemen. How do We know the way
In which the money Ia made?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Here IL a stream of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within a few
inches Of the nations food supply