Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-10

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missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of medI.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection IL to be found
in meat. 1t II no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec
ton IL due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum-
py jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
OF the trust. week by week. many cat
tie afflicted with "lumpy jaw" What
becomes Of them?
I 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
man who desires to live that Is o!
greater importance than this. The op-
crations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider IL allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative of
the public ever gets behind that cur
tain. You can go there and be enter
talned with fake exhibition of fake
slnughtering conducted as 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 fertilizer. Who sees
the burning? Who knows that 1t Is
done or how II is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
In that ''lumpy law" is cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" Ia communicable and tina,
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate, no far as he
could, the slamghtering processes Of the
trust houses He returned with reve
lation that should have called for gov
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
( unsanitary. That the work was done
| In a hurried, careless, slipshOd way
that there was no tOlerable inspection
or sanitary supervision: that the health
Of the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathlns ind!ct
ment from q great medical authorlt,
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared IN
jamestown, \. v, a remarkable book
"The Dark Side of the Beef Trust,
| apparently written by an expert, sup
plemcnting the charges of the Lancet
ana enforcing them with such detail,
as could hardly have been supplied by
anything but personal knowledge. Tn,
whole process OF manufacture In the
trust houses was followed with minut,
care and the charge was explicit,
made that carelessness reigned every
where; that m.IGre pr,Hiucts We're Ia
bitually sent out for cOnsumptlon tina,
meat fit only for destruction was ha
biually worked up with spices ana
drugs TO disguise its taste and sold t.
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF spe
cfc assertions no answer was eve!
made.
Here. then. are two witnesses tina
solemnly declare that the conditions IN
the trust slaughter houses are exact,
such as would allow the meat u
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out al
food.
Suppose that We take of the matter
the most charitable view possible
Suppose we assume that the trust gen
uemen are most scrupulOus about al
the ways in which they make money
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef, the games
of gouge and robbery practiced by til,
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip
ulatiOn Of thousand markets fol
profits, the tribute levied by this com
binatlon upon all households in tn,
country. Let us forget that they ar,
law-breakers and mOney-mad and as
sumo that not one OF them would
touch cent of questionable profits.
Still this question stares US in thu
face; How do we know what become,
of the "lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed tC
make much money for the trust gen
I tlnmnu HWY do we knnw tho xyau,