Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-11
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
The General Public Has a Fine 0ppor.
tunity to Get All It Wants
Of Il.
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.
Health Department Finds Cattle in
Trust Coolers with Tuber.
culOsis Trimmed Out.

The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with foreheads 10
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how care
less community might tolerate a mo.
nopoly Of some things, how It might
endure to have its transportation, for
instance, or Its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that It should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food IL beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that, and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such q monstrous
condition Is our own.
From thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let us cite one.
There IL no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba.
GILL that prey upon mankind are com.
mon among the animals he eats, for
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. Il 10 20 com.
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewarned will use none but stef-
liked milk. What 10 hog cholera
among swine Ii merely typhoid fever
In men. Trichlnea In hogs poisons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than ali these, and mors
deadly, II another fact that 10 seldom
commented upon because II 10 too ap.
pallinv to dwell much upon. What II
called "lumpy Jaw" In cattle Il simply
cancer. The germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
'lumpy Jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy jaw" II unnt for human
food.
This opens a neid that demands the
immediate attention Of the govern.
ment. Cancer 10 the most terrible Of
oil diseases. After It has reached q
certain stage Of development It 10 ab.
solutely incurable. Its progress to
that stage may be without the pa,
tient's knowledge or suspicion. Ita
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked. Il slays its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
Of this most terrible Of human a.
Aictions has been something to alarm
us oil. It was once rare; II now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870.
Il, the number Of cancerous patients
was one In 5S7. In 1904 the numbev
was one In ?73. In 1870. when the
total population Of the city was 2l0.'
239. the number of cancer cases 70.
ported mt all the institutions was 40;
In 1900. with a total population OF
1902, the number Of cancer cases
reported at all the institutions was
l0s, and In 1908, with about the same
population, the number was 287.
append the table that shows this as.
tonishing increase.
Here IL a similar report from two
well.known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.