Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-22

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dreadful records. The trend Of med'.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection Is to be found
In meat. Il IL no longer held to he
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
tlon Is due always to an active ngept
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with 'luin.
ny jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust. week by week. many cnt.
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
tho slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
a man who desires to live that 10 Of
greater Importance than this. Tho op.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider 10 allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 90 there and be enter
tained with a fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted as public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one 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 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 jaws" that
"lumpy jaw" 10 communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 30 far as hc
could. the slamghtering processes Of tho
trust houseS. He returned with 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 a hurried, careless, slipshod way;
that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by thcse
conditions. To this scathing indlct.
ment from a 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 tho Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
as 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 reigned every.
where; that impure pr0ducts were ha.
bltually sent out for consumption; TINT
meat ut only for destruction was I'm.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise its taste aud sold to
the public.
TO this extraordinary array Of spe.
clAc 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 o.
food.
Suppose that We take Of the matter
the most charitable view possible.
Suppose We assume that the trust gen.
tlemen are most scrupulous about all
the ways In which they make money.
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
OF gouge and robbery practicel by the
trust refrigerator car lines. the manip.
ulation Of thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this com.
bination upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law'breakers and money.mad and On.
sumo that not one of them would
touch a cent OF questionable profits.
Still this question stares us In tho
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 tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money II made?
How do the trust gentlemen know9
Here 10 . stream OF the most terrible
Infection passing daily within Q few
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