Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

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"From 1885 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 Is TO he found
in meat. II is no longer held to he
possible that cancer or Il tendency tn
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
ton Is due always to an active agert
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 cat
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 be no question to
a man who desires to live that Is Of
greater Importance than this. The op.
crations 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 be enter
tuncd with fake exhibition of fake
slaughtering conducted as Il public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
| Tho real work 10 one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes of the diseased cat
tie? Theoretically they are burned AMI
converted into fertilizer. Who secs
the burning? WHO knows that It Is
done or how It Is 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 frightfully increases.
Tho London Lancet, the leading
medical journal of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate, SO far rs hc
could. the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. lie returned with reve.
lation that should have called for gov
crnment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In q hurried. careless. slipshod way;
that there was no tolcrablc inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the h"altl,
of the world was mcnaccd by those
conditions. TO this scathlng inllct.
mcnt from n great medical authority
10 serious defense was ever made.
subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, y. ", II remarkable book,
''rhc Dark Side of the Beef Trust,
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plcmcntlng the charges Of the Lancet
and 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 rclgned every
where; that impure products were IN
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat lit only for destruction was hn
btuaily worked up with spices and
drugs TO disguise Its taste and sold tC
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF spe
clic assertions no answer was eve!
made.
Here. then. are two witnesses thai
solcmnly declare that the conditions IL
the trust slaughter houses are exact!
such rs would allow the meat OF
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent ont a.
food.
suppose that we take of the matter
the most charitable view possible
| Suppose we assume that the trust gen
tlemcn are most scrupulOus about al
the ways In which they make money
! suppose we forget about tho soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
of gouge ana robbery practlced by tll'
, trust refrigerator car lines, the manip
ulatlon of a thousand markets fol
profits, the tribute levied by this com
blnatlon upon all households In th'
; country. Let us forget that they ar,
. | Ib" uhu 'ioh's anu "H
. sume that not one of them woult
! touch Il cent of questionable profits,
still this question starcs Us In TIT
face: How do we know what becomes
of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle;
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed Il
make much money for the trust gen
; tlemcn. How do we know the way,
in which the money is made:
How do the trust gentlemen know
Here Is n stream of the most terrible
infection passing daily within II few
/. inches Of the nations food supply
How do we know that sufficient pre-
cautions are taken to prevent cOntaml
, nation?
: How do the trust gentlemen know
! They inform MS that what goes OF
. behind the walls of their plants j.
! their own affair; that Is, their busl
, ness they will manage IL as they see
, tit. Whose affair Is it, then, II the
, nation eats diseased meat, IL we are
, poisoned by trichinae, IL cancer in
creascs;
Other countries are not so duh rs
we are about these things. Other
countries understand very well the