Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-16


1W1.O2.. 80.
1OO2.O3.. .4,0O5 Ut
10O3.04.. .4,S37 81
srrom 1885 to 1905 the figures are
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 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.
| tion 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 M 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 vet there can be no question to
a man who desires to live that 10 o!
greater Importance than this. The Op.
erations OF those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Is allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative Of
tho public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You Gun 60 there and be enter.
taIned with fake exhibition Of fake
slaugliterlng 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 It II
done or how II Ii done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" is cancer; that
many cattle have ''lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" is communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 30 far as he
could. the slamghtcring 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
I unsanltary. That the work was done
In a hurried. careless, sllpshOd way
that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by these
conditions. To this scathlng indlct
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made
Subsequently, there appeared II
Jamestown, n. T., a remarkable book
; "The Dark Side Of the Beef Trust
apparently written by an expert, sup
plementing the charges Of tho Lancet
am. enforcing them with such details
as could hardly have been supplied by
anything but personal knowledge. TIL,
whole process Of manufacture In tn,
trust houses was followed with minute
care and the charge was explicit,
made that carelessness reigned every
:; where; that im.. .Ire pl~.dcts were ha
bitually sent out for consumption; tina
J meat ut only for destruction was In
J bituaily worked up with spices ant
. druss to disguise its taste and sold I,
the public.
. 10 this extraordinary array Of spe
cIfic assertions no answer was eve
D made.
Here. then. are two witnesses tina
, solemnly declar" that the conditions Il
the trust slaughter houses are exactl,
such as would allow the meat O
!. "lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out a
a food.
n Suppose that We take OF the matte
n the most charitable view possible
. Suppose we assume that the trust ger
a tlemen are most scrupulous about a
5 the ways In which they make money
7 Suppose we forget about the soldier
2 poisoned by embalmed beef. the game
0 Of g0uge AID robbery practlced by til
7 trust refrigerator car lines, the maniI
s ulation Of a thousand markets "a
0 profits. the tribute levied by this con
8 binatlon upon all households In tn
= country. Let 10 forget that they AZ
. law.breakers and money.mad and al
= sume that not one OF them woul
3 touch cent Of questionable profits.
81 Still this question stares ~ In tn
8 face: How do We know what become
8 Of the "lumpy jaw" cattle?
@ How do the trust gentlemen know
8 Their employees are employed
0 make much money for the trust gel
4 tlemen. How do we know the way
In which the money 10 made?