Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-29


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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of netii.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection is to be found
In meat. It Ia 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
Il ken In some way into the system.
Thc meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum.
~ jaw" would be such I'm agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week. many cut.
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
tho slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
q man who desires to live that Ii Of
greater importance than this. The OF.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider 10 allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there and be enter.
tained with fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted a. a 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 Il
done or how II In done? Nobody out
side Of the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" In cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
'lumpy Jaw" II communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical Journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 10 far a. hc
could. the slaMghterlng processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
lati0n that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In q hurried. careless, slipsh0d way;
that there was no t0lerable inspection
, or sanitary supervision; that the health
Of the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathing indlct.
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently, there appeared In
jamestown, N. Y, q remarkable book.
'"The Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementing the charges Of tho Lancet
ana enforcing them with such details
rs 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 reigned every
where; that impure Products We're ha.
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat ut only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices ana
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF spe.
cific 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 az 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.
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
Of gouge ana robbery practIced by the
trust refrigerator ear lines, the manip.
ulatlOn Of thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this COM
binatlon upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law-brcakers and m0ney-mad and as.
sumo that not one OF them would
touch a cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares IA In the
face: How do we know what becomes
OF the 'lumpy Jaw" cattle!
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money is nader
How do the trust gentlemen knowt
Here 10 stream Of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within . few
inches ef ths natioa's food supply.