Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-17

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"From 1856 to 1906 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of mcdi-
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin OF the hu.
man cancer Infection IL To be found
In meat. 1t IL no longer held to bc
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The lnfcc
| 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 he such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
| of the trust. week by week. many cat.
tie afflicted with "lumpy jaw" What
| becomes OF them?
| don't know: you don't know. no.
! body knows outside OF the precincts or
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can bc no question 60
| q man who desires To live that Is q!
greater importance than this. The or.
| crat!ons Of those slaughter houses are
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 go there and bc enter.
talned with fake exhibition OF fake
slaughtcrlng conducted as q public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever secs but
the employees.
What becomes OF the diseased cat.
tie? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burningy Who knows that II II
done or how II is done? Nobody out.
side Of tho employees. All we know
In that "lumpy law" II cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" thu,
"lumpy jaw" is communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal OF Europe, sent u man
to Chicago to Investigate. NO far as hC
could. tho Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. lie returned with a reve
lntion that should have called for gov,
crnmcnt investigation. lie declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In hurried. careless. sllpshod way
that there was no tolcrable inspection,
or sanitary supervision; that the health
of the world was menaccd by these
conditions. TO this scathiny ind!ct
mcnt from great medical authorlty
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared IN
jamestown, y. ", n remarkable book
"rhe Dark Side Of the Reef Trust
apparently written by an expert, sup
plcmcnting the charges of tho Lancet
ana enforcing them with sucl, details
rs could hardly have been supplied by
anything but personal knowledge. Tho
whole process OF manufacture In the
trust houses waa followed with mlnut,
care and the charge was explicitly
made that carclcssness rcigncd every.
where; that im.,are pir.acts were ha.
| bltually sent out for consumption; ths,
meat tit only for destruction was la.
bltually worked UP with splcos ana
drugs TO disguise Its taste aud sold Ia
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the public.
TO this extraordinary array of spe.
clhc assertions no answer was owe.
made.
Here. then. are two witnesses that
solemnly declar" that the conditions IN
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such ms would allow the meat VI
"lumpy Jaw" cattle to bc 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 a,.d robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip-
ulatlon OF thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this com.
blnatlon upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
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" 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
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