Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-10-13
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of med'.
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 Il tendency to
cancer can be Inherited. The infec
ton 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 houses
OF the trust. week by week. many cat.
tic afflicted with "lumpy jaw" What
becomes Of them?
I don't know; you don't know; no
body knows outside of the precincts Of
tho slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
man who desires to live that Is o!
greater Importance thnn this. The Op.
cratiOns Of those slaughter houses arc
conducted behind closed doors. NH
outsider IL allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there and be enter.
talncd with fake exhibition of take
Strengthening conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing
Tho real work no one ever sees bu,
tho employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat
tle? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sces
tho burning? Who knows that II n
done or how It IL done? Nobody out
side Of the employees. All We know
is that "lumpy law" IL cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
"lunpy jaw" In communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 30 far as b.
could, the slaughtering processes Of the
trust houses He returned with reve
latlOn that should have called for gov
crnment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were mos,
unsnnltary. That the work was done
In q hurried. careless. sllpshod way
| that there was no tOlerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
4, Of the world was menaced by those
conditions. 10 this scathlng indlct
ment from great medical authority
no 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, sup
plemcntlng the charges Of tho 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 ana the charge was explicitly
made that carelcssness reigned every,
where; that I'm. ..~re pi.uucts were IN.
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat lit only for destruction was ha,
bltually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold "a
the public.
To this extraordinary array Of spe.
clhc assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, then, are two witnesses that
solemnly declar" that the conditions In
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such as would allow the meat OF
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out az
food.
Suppose that We take of the matte,
the most charitable view possible
Suppose we assume that the trust gen
tlemen are most scrupul0us about al!
the ways In which they make money
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisOIed by embalmed beef. the games
Of gouge ana robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip
ulatlon Of thousand markets fOl
profits. the tribute levied by this com
blnati0n upon all households In the
country. Let Us forget that they arc
law-brcakers 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" cattleY
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed IA
make much money for thu trust gen
tlemen How do we know the wlys
In which the money In mnde'
How do the trust gentlemen knows
here Ia a stream of the most terrible
infection passing daily within Q few
lnchaa ~ thA mntl0nsa fO06 nnn0lY.