Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-11-10

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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 hu.
man cancer infection Is to be found
In meat. 1t Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The lnfec.
ton Is due always to an active agent
taken In some way Into the system.
The meat of cattle afflicted with "lum.
by jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
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tie 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 or.
eratlons Of those slaughter houses IRE
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Is allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 60 there and be enter.
tanned with fake exhibition of fake
slaughterlng conducted as public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tic? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burning? Who knows that 1t IL
done or how 1t IL done? Nobody out
side Of the employees. All we know
IL 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 man
to Chicago to Investigate, so far rs he
could, the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
I, tinn thot ahoriI hovn co lial %. ,,n,,-
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In u hurried, careless, slipshod way;
that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
of the world was menaced by these
conditions. 10 this scathing indlct,
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown. N. ", Il remarkable book,
"rhe Dark Side of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementing the charges of the Lancet
ana 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 ana the charge was explicitly
made that carelessnesS reigned every,
where; that impure products were ha,
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was Ia.
btually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold ia
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 MS 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 ard robbery practlced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip'
ulatlon of thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this CON-
binatlon 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.
! 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 ?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money 10 made?
How do the trust gentlemen know1
Here Ii stream Of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within Q few