Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-12-15

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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 be found
In meat. 1t Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec
tlon Is due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum-
ny jaw" would he such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
of the trust. week by week. many cu..
tic 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 be no question to
a man who desires to live that Is Of
greater Importance than this. The Op.
erations of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider IL 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.
tnlned with fake exhibition Of fako
slaughterlng conducted as a 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 It II
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 jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" is communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to Investigate. 10 far as he
could, the slanghtering 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 hurried, careless, slipslOd way;
that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
| Of the world was menaced by these
conditions. To this scathing Indict.
mcnt 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.
plementing 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 Products were ha.
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was la
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise its taste and 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 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 AID robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulatlOn Of thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this com.
blnatiOn upon oil 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 becolncs
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 is made?
How do the trust gentlemen knows
Here is a stream OF the most terrible
Infection passing daily within . few
inches Of the nations food supply.