Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

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'From 1885 to 1896 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of me,li-
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin of the liu.
man cancer infection is to he found
in meat. 1t Is no longer held to he
possible that cancer or q tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec.
tion is due always to an active agept
taken In some way into the system.
The meat of cattle afflicted with "lum.
ny jaw" would he such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
of the trust. week by week. many cut
tie afflicted with ''lumpy jaw" What
becomes of them?
don't know: YOU don't know; no
body knows outside of the precincts OF
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can he no question to
man who desires to live that Is OF
greater Importance than this. The op.
erations of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider IL allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can go there and be enter.
taincd with fake exhibition of fake
slaughtering conducted rs a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing
| The real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes of the diseased cat.
tie; Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burningg Who knows that 1t IL
done or how 1t 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" II communicable ana that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical Journal Of Europe. sent n man
to Chicago to investigate, NO far ns Il"
could. the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. lie returned with reve.
lation that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In hurried. careless, slipshOd way;
that there was 10 tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
of the world was menaced by these
condltionss To this scathlng lndict.
mcnt from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared IN
Jaivestown. y. ", II remarkable book
"The Dark Side of the Beef Trust.
apparently written by an expert. sup
plcmentlng the charges Of the Lance,
and enforcing them with such details
as could hardly have been supplied by
anything but personal knowledge. TIL,
whole process OF manufacture In thu
trust houses was followed with minut,
care and the charge was explicit!
made that cnrclessncss rcigned every
where; that impure products We're IN
bltually sent out for consumption: thn
meat TIT only for destruction was ba
bitually worked up with spices ant
drugs TO disguise Its taste and sold 4
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF spe
cifc assertions no answer was eve
made.
Here. then. are two witnesses tina
sOlemnly declare that the conditions II
.. the trust slaughter houses are exact!
; such as would allow the meat %
, ''lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out a
/, food.
!. Suppose that we take of the matte
: : the most charitable view possible
; Suppose We assume that the trust gen
, tlemen are most scrupulOus about n!
|, the ways In which they make money
; Suppose we forget about the soldier
: poisoned by embalmed beef. the game
; of gOuge and robbery practiced by th'
, trust refrigerator car lines, the manip
!, ulatiOn of thousand markets 70
. profits. the tribute levied by this com
, binatiOn upon all households In tn
; country. Let us forget that they ar
/, law-breakers and money-mad and as
: sumo that not one OF them wOul'
; /, touch cent Of questionable profits.
, Still this question stares us in til
> face: How do we know what become
, Of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle?
, How do the trust gentlemen know
, Their employees are employed I
, make much money for the trust gen
, tlemen. How do we know the way
in which the money Is made:
How do the trust gentlemen know
Here Is u stream of the most terrlbl
, Infection passing daily within fe,
. inches of the nations food suppl!
How do we know that sufficient pre-
. cautions are taken to prevent contain
, nation!
> How do the trust gentlemen know
: They inform us that what goes o
. behind the walls Of their plants
Il their own affair: that Is, their bus
% ness they will manage 1t as they SO
5 fit. Whose affair Is 1t, then, II I'll
: nation eats diseased meat, II we m
$ poisoned by trichlnae, If cancer II
: creascsf
7 Other countries are not so dull q
we are about these things. Otht
Z countries understand very well I'll
Z monstrous pcrils involved in the metl
$ ods Of this monopoly, and, therefor
4 try to exclude American meats,
To quiet their objections the C....te
. States IL supDosed To keen an inspecto