Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-12

iOVV'Ol.s l.s..........s.s 90. s.s
lVUl'VS.. ............... 80. s..
1902. .O3, ;,A,895 81
1OO3.O4.. .4,337 81
'From 1885 to 1900 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of mcdl.
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 infcc'
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 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?
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.
crations Of those slaughter houses arc
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 90 there and DO enter.
tnlned 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 tho diseased cat.
tie? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who secs
tho burning? Who knows that 1t II
done or how II ls 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 man
to Chicago to investigate, 10 far rs hG
could, the slanghtcring processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve'
lation that should have called for gov.
ernmcnt investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
( unsanltary. That the work was done
I In hurried, careless, slipshod way
that there was no tOlerable inspection
| or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF tho world was mcnaced by those
conditions. To this scathIng indIct
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, n. Y, a remarkable bOOl;
1.-THE Dark Side of the Beef Trust,
apparently written by an expert. sup
piemcntlng tho charges OF tho Lancet
anu 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 reigned every
where; that impure products were Ia
bltually 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 tC
the public.
To this extraordinary array of spe
clflc assertions no answer was evel
made.
Here. then, are two witnesses tha
solemnly declare that the conditions IL
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such as would allow the meat O
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out a'
food.
Suppose that VIC take of the matter
the most charitable view possible
Suppose we assume that the trust gen
tlcmen are most scrupulOus about a!
the ways In which they make money
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef, the games
of gouge a,;a robbery practlced by tn
trust refrigerator ear lines, the manlp
ulatlon of thousand markets 70
profits, the tribute levied by this com
blnatlOn upon all households In tn
country. Let us forget that they an
breakers and money-maG and ns
sumo that not one OF them woul'
touch a cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares us In tn
face: How do we know what become
of the 'lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed t
make much money for tho trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the way
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