Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-01

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These are simple pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of meti'.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection Is to he found
In meat. It IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec.
ton 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 On agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week, many cat.
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 Ii Of
greater Importance than this. The or.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider II allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there and he enter.
talned with q fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted 10 q public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tlef theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who seea
the burning? Who knows that It ID
done or how It 10 done3 Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All We know
Ii that 'lumpy law" IL cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" 10 communicable aud that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 10 far a. b.
could. the slamghtering processes Of tho
trust houses. He returned with revs.
lation that should have called for gov
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In a hurried. careless. slipshod way
that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by those
conditions. To this scathing indlct
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, n. Y, u 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
us 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 In. .,0re prsircts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; tim,
meat tit only for destruction was ha,
bitually worked up with spices and
drugS to disguise Its taste and sold "a
the public.
10 this extraordinary array of spe.
clfic assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, then. are two witnesses that
s0lemnly declare that the conditions Ia
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such as would allow the meat Of
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out az
food.
suppose that We take Of the matter
the most charitable view possible
Suppose We assume that the trust gen
tlemen are most scrupul0us about al!
the ways In which they make money
suppose We forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef, the games
OF g0uge and robbery practlced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip
ulatlOn Of q thousand markets fOl
profits, the tribute levied by this com
binatlon upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law.breakers and money.mad aud a.
sumo that not one OF them would
touch cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares 10 In the
face: How do we know what becomes
Of the "lumpy Jaw" cattle2
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed ia
make much money for the trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money 10 made7
How do the trust gentlemen knowl
Here IL stream Of the most terrible
infection passing daily within q few
inches of the natiOn'0 food suDDly