Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-03

lSSs-cd.. .............Z,IoO IL
1oS3-S4.. .............Z,loO II
1SS4-S5".. ............. .2,2W ~
lSvO-0I.. ..............2,SOl ~
lo0t-VS.. ..............S .S,34l Oo
1S0S-m.. ...........3 .3,SO7 W
loUo'VV.. V............... 80. s.'
uWO-Ol.. ........... 80. 80.
1OO2. 2.O3.. ....,,., ,4.e0S 81
1OO3-O4.. .4,331 oil
'From 1885 to 1906 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of med'.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the In.
man cancer Infection Is to be found
In meat. It Is 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 agept
taken In some way into the system.
The meat OF cattle afflicted with 'lum.
ny jaw" would be such nn agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
OF the trust, week by week. many cnt.
tic 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
a man who desires to live that is OF
greater Importance than this. The OF.
crations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Is allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there ana be enter.
talned with fake exhibition Of fake
siaughtcrlng conducted as public
spectacle. That dmOunts 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 It II
) done or how It is done? Nobody out.
side of the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" In cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" Ii communicable and that
; cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate, so FAR rs he
could, the slamghtering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with a reve.
> lation that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
: In hurried. careless, slipshOd way;
} that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
of the world was menaced by those
. conditions. 10 this scathing indict.
ment from q great medical authority
. no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently. there appeared In
} Jamestown, N. Y, remarkable book.
'The Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
} apparently written by an expert, sup.
! plementing the charges Of the Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
as could hardly have been supplied BY
anything but personal knowledge. The
whole process Of manufacture In the
; trust houses was followed with minute
care and the charge was explicitly
made that carelessness rcigned every.
where; that I'm ..xfe ptv,iucts were Ia.
, bltually sent out for consumption; tnat
, meat tit only for destruction was In.
!, bitually worked up with spices ana
!, dru.s to disguise Its taste and sold to
, the public.
, To this extraordinary array Of spe-
, clfic assertions no answer was ever
, made.
Here, then, are two witnesses that
, solemnly declare that the conditions In
, the trust slaughter houses are exactly
, such as 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.
q Suppose we forget about the soldiers
!, poisoIed by embalmed beef, the games
, OF gOuge ant robbery practiced by the
! trust refrigerator car lines, the manip'
ulation of thousand markets for
s profits. the tribute levied by this com.
bination upon all households In the
: country. Let Us forget that they are
law.breakers and money-mad and as.
sumo that not one OF them would
touch cent Of questionable profits.
81 Still this question stares us In the
} face: How do we know what becomes
Of the ''lumpy jaw" cattleY
How do the trust gentlemen know 7
Their employees are employed to
! make much money for the trust gen.
! tlemen. How do we know the ways
} In which the money 10 madef
81 How do the trust gentlemen kn0wt
) hero ID q stream Of the most terrible
infection passing daily within . tsv
inches Of The nations food supply