Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-19


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"From 1885 to 1906 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of mcd'.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer Infection II to be found
In meat. It Is no longer held to bc
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infcc.
ton Is due always to IN 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 cn;.
tie afflicted with "lumpy Jaw What
becomes Of them?
l 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
a man who desires to live that Is OF
greater Importance than this. The or.
erati0ns Of those slaughter houses arc
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Is allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can go there and be enter.
tnlncd with fake exhibition Of fake
slaugitering conducted as public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
tho employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tie? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
tho burning? Who knows that 1t In
done or how II Is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
Is that ''lumpy law" IL cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy Jaw" Is communicable ana that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate, no far as he
could, the slamghterlng processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
crnmcnt investigation. He declared
that tho methods employed were most
{ unsanitary. Tint the work was done
In. q hurried, careless, slipshOd way;
that there was no tOlcrable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
of tho world was menaced by those
conditions. TO this scathing indIct.
ment from a great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, n. Y. remarkable book.
"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementlng 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 reigned every.
where; that impure pr0aucts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumpt ton; that
meat lit only for destruction was ha.
bItually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
TO this extraordinary array of spe.
cihc 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 rs
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 al
the ways In which they make money
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
, poisoned by embalmed beef the games
} of gOuge aha robbery practiced by tho
, trust. refrigerator ear lines, the manlp
ulaton of thousand markets fOl
, profits, the tribute levied by this com
, blnation upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they arc
w-brcakers and mOney-mad AMI ~
, sumo that not one of them woult
touch a cent Of questionable profits.
. Still this question stares us In Tho
, face: How do we know what becomes
J OF the ''lumpy jaw" cattle?
81 How do the trust gentlemen know
}, Their employees are employed tt
} make much money for the trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the ways
5 In which the money 10 made?