Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-07

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| dreadful records. The trend of medi-
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin of the hu.
man cancer infection IL to he found
In meat. 1t IL no longer held to be
| possible that cancer or a 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.
py 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
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
man who desires to live that Is Of
greater Importance than this. The or.
eratlons Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider II allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 90 there ana be enter.
tained with fake exhibition Of fake
slaughterlng conducted as 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 burning? Who knows TINT 1t Il
done or how II IL done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
Is that ''lumpy law" Is cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"mmpy jaw" Is communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal OF Europe, sent Il man
to Chicago to investigate. 80 far ns he
could, the slanghterlng processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
latlon that should have called for gov
ernment Investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In u 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 ind!ct-
ment from a great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently, there appeared In
Jamestown, y. Y, a remarkable book,
"The Dark Side of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup
plcmenting the charges Of tho Lancet
ana 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 relgned every.
where; that m,ure pru-ilicts We're Ia.
btually sent out for consumption; that
meat lit only for destruction was ha.
bltually worked up with spices ana
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold TO
the public.
To this extraordinary array of spe-
clhc 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
the ways In which they make money.
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
pOisoEed by embalmed beef, the games
OF gouge aid robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator ear lines, the manip.
ulation of thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this com
binatlon 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 Ia made2
How do the trust gentlemen knowf
Here Is a stream OF the most terrible
Infection passing daily within q few
inches Of the nations food supply.