Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-04

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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of mcdi.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer Infection is to be found
in meat. II Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
tlon is 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 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
tho slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
a man who desires to live that Is o!
greater Importance than this. The or.
eratlons 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 70 there and be enter.
tained with fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering 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 secs
the burning? Who knows that II IL
! done or how II ls donei Nobody out
side Of the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" IL 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 a mar
to Chicago to investigate. 30 far as b,
could. the slanChtering processes Of til,
trust houses. He returned with a reve
lation that should have called for gov
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were mos,
unsanitary. That the work was done
In a hurried. careless, slipshod way
| that there was no tolerable inspection
, or sanitary supervision; that the hsaltl
of the world was menaced by those
conditions. TO this scathing indlct
inent from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made
Subsequently, there appeared IL
jamestown. n. Y. a remarkable book
"The Dark Side Of the Beef Trust,
apparently written by an expert, sup
plementlng the charges Of tho Lance
ana enforcing them with such detail,
us could hardly have been supplied b,
anything but personal knowledge. Tn,
whole process Of manufacture In III,
trust houses was followed with mInut.
care and the charge was explicit,
made that carelessness reigned every
where; that impure prSducts were ha
bitually sent out for consumption; tina
meat tit only for destruction was ha
bitually worked up with spices and
drues to disguise its taste aud sold t.
the public.
10 this extraordinary array Of spe
cific assertions no answer was eveI
made.
Here, then, are two witnesses tina
solemnly declare that the conditions II
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such as would allow the meat OF
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out al
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 nj
the ways In which they make money
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef, the game'
Of gouge aha robbery practiced by tin
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip
ulatlon of a thousand markets fol
profits. the tribute levied by this com
blnation upon all households In th'
country. Let us forget that they arr
law-breakers and mOney-mad and rs
sumo that not one Of them wOult
touch cent of questionable profits.
Stlll this question stares us In th'
face: How do we know what becomes
of the "lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed Il
make much money for the trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the way
In which the money is made?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Here Ii a stream Of the most terrible
infection passing daily within q few
inches Of the nAtlOn'a food sunDlY