Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-15

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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 is to be found
I'm meat. It Is no longer held to he
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be 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.
py jaw" would be such nn agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week, many cn;.
tie afflicted with "lumpy jaw" What
becomes of them?
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.
crations 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 70 there ana be enter.
talncd with fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted as public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
Tho real work no one ever secs but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tic? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who secs
the burning? Who knows that 1t Ia
done or how 1t IL done? Nobody out
side OF the employees. All we know
II that "lumpy law" Is cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
"lumpy jaw" Is communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. so far as he
could, the slamglitering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
lntion that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In a hurried, careless, slipshod way;
that there was no tolerable inspection
+, or sanitary supervision; that the hsaltl,
| of the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathing indlct.
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently, there 'appcaredI In
jamestown, n. Y, Il remarkable book.
"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plemcnting 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 or manufacture In the
trust houses was followed with minute
care and the charge was explicitly
made that carelessness rciSned every
where; that im.,dre pr.Iilcts were ha-
bitually sent out for consumption; tnat
meat lit only for destruction was ha-
bitually worked up with spices ana
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array of spe.
cltic assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, theE, are two witnesses that
solemnly declare that the conditions In
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such ms 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 aha robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip'
ulatlon 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 ono of them would
touch cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares Us In lhc
face: How do we know what become,
Of the 'lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed ia
make much money for the trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money In made?
How do the trust gentlemen knowi
Here IL a stream Of the most terrible
infection passing daily within q few
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