Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-01

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lSS2-S3.. 1886 II
loS3.S4.. .............2,1S0 IA
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| lobu-VU. U............. 90.
| iUVU-Ol.. l.............. 80.
| lOVl-U2.. 80.
10O2.O3. .4,eo5 81
10000. .4,337 81
'From 1886 to 1906 the figures are
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 llu.
man cancer Infection Is to be found
In meat. 1t IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or Il tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec
tion Is due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat of cattle afflicted with "lum-
ny jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter hoiises
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 Of
greater Importance than this. The Op.
erations Of those slaughter houses IRE
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider is allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative of
the public ever gets behind that cur
tain. You can 20 there ana be enter.
tanned with q fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtcring conducted as public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes OF the diseased cat.
tile? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burning? Who knows that 1t Is
done or how II Is done? Nobody out.
side of the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" Is 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 man
to Chicago to investigate. SO far rs ho
could, the Strengthening processes OF the
trust houses. He returned with a reve.
lation that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In hurried, careless, sllpshod way:
that there was no tOlerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
of the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathing lnd!ct-
ment from a great medical authority
10 serious defense was ever made.
subsequently, there appeared In
jamestown, n. Y, a remarkable book,
'"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sun.
plementlng the charges of the Lancet
ana 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 impure ptv,iucts We're ha-
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was ha-
bltually worked UP with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
TO this extraordinary array OF spe-
cilic 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 as 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 gem
tlemen are most scrupulOus about all
the ways in which they make money.
| F"PIoSc VIC ioISct uDout tue SOluleTS
poisoned by embalmed beef, the games
OF gouge AID robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulatlon of a thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this COM
blnatlon 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" 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
In which the money is made?
How do the trust gentlemen knows
Here is a stream Of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within a few
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