Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-17

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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of medl-
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer Infection Il to be found
In meat. II IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or u tendency to
cancer can he inherited. Tho infcc
ton Is due always 10 an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum-
ny jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week. many cn'.
tic 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 yet there can be no question to
man who desires to live that Is Of
greater Importance than this. The or.
crations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider IL allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
tho public ever gets behind that cur
tain. You can 70 there ana be enter.
tained with fake exhibition Of fake
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
Tho real work no one ever sees but
tho employees.
What becomes OF the diseased cat.
tie? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burnIngY Who knows that It IL
done or how It IL done? Nobody out.
side of the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" Is cancer; that
many cattle have 'lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" is communicable ana that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical Journal Of Europe, sent Il man
to Chicago to investigate, 80 far as he
could, the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve-
lation that should have called for gov.
crnment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. 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 mcnaced by these
conditions. To this scathlng indIct.
ment from a great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently, there appeared In
Jamestown, n. u, a remarkable book,
"'rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert. sup.
plementing tho charges of the Lancet
AN" 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 relgned every
where; that impure ptvlucts We're ha.
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was ha-
bltually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
TO this extraordinary array of spe.
cllic assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, theE, 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 scrlipulous about all
the ways In which they make money.
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef, the games
of gouge aha robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulation of thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this COM
blnation upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law-breakers and money-mad and as
sume that not one of them would
touch cent of questionable profits.
Still this question stares us 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 gem
tlemen. How do We know the ways
In which the money 10 made?
How do the trust gentlemen knowt
Here 10 stream Of the most terrible
infection passing daily within Q few