Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-07

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'FrOm 1885 to 1900 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. II Is no longer held to he
possible that cancer or u tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The lnfec
tlon IL due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat of cattle afflicted with 'lun.
ry jaw" would be 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?
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
man who desires to live that Is o.
greater Importance than this. The or.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider In allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 90 there and bc enter.
talned with fake exhibition of fake
slnughtcrlng conducted rs a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
Tho real work no ono 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 It IL
done or how It Is done? Nobody out
side Of the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" II cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" Is communicable ana that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet. tho leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate, 10 far rs hc
could. the slanghterlng processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
lation that should have called for gov
ernmcnt investigation. He declared
that tho methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In a hurried, careless. sllpshOd way;
that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
of the world was menaced by those
conditions. To this scathIng lndlct.
mcnt from n great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, n. Y, a remarkable book,
''The Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementlng the charges Of the Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
rs 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 rcigned every.
where: that I'm. .,ure pr,siucts were hu.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was In.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold ia
the public.
TO this extraordinary array of spe.
cihc 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 rs would allow the meat OF
'lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out as
food.
Suppose that VIC take of the matter
the most charitable view possible
Suppose we assume that the trust gen
tlemen are most scrupulOus about a!
the ways In which they make money
suppose we forget about the sOl'''""S
pOisoEed by embalmed beef. the gat 8
OF gouge aha robbery practlced by e
trust refrigerator ear lines, the man!p
ulatlon of a thousand markets fol
profits. the tribute levied b. 'h!s com
blnation upon all households In thu
country. Let us forget that they arr
law.breakers and money-mad and as
sumo that not one of them would
touch a cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares Us In thu
face: How do we know what becomes
of the "lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed t(
make much money for the trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the wayi