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

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10000. .4,337 61
srrom 1885 to 1906 the figures are
missing.
These nre sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of med'.
cnl investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu-
man cancer infection Il TO he found
I'm meat. 1t IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec
tion Is due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum.
ny jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
of the trust. week by week, many cat.
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
man who desires to live that Is o!
greater Importance than this. The op.
cratlons OF those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider IL allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can go there ana be enter
talned with fake exhibition OF fake
slaughtcrlng 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 that 1t II
done or how 1t IL done? Nobody out
side OF the employees. All we know
is 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, no far NJ hG
could: the slamghterlng processes Of the
trust houses. HI returned with reve.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
I unsanitary. That the work was done
In a hurried, careless, slipshOd way;
that there was no t0lerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by these
conditions. To this scathlns indlct'
ment 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.
plemcntlng the charges OF tho Lance,
anu 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.,ufe pr0,ucts We're Ia
bltually sent out for consumption; tina,
} meat tit only for destruction was In
} bitually worked up with spices and
} dru.s 10 disguise Its taste aud sold t6
the public.
10 this extraordinary array of spe
cific assertions no answer was evel
} made.
Here. then. are two witnesses tha
? solemnly declare that the conditions II
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such as would allow the meat Ol
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out al
: food.
Al Suppose that We take of the matte
\ the most charitable view possible
, Suppose we assume that the trust gen
a tlemen are most scrupulOus about a!
8 the ways In which they make money
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
, poisoned by embalmed beef, the games
D of gouge ana robbery practiced by th'
: trust refrigerator car lines, the manip
4 ulatiOn of a thousand markets TO
D profits. the tribute levied by this com
3 blnation upon all households In tn
; country. Let us forget that they ar
, law. breakers and money-mad and as
\ sumo that not one of them wOul'
5 touch cent OF questionable profits.
2 Still this question stares US In tn
5 face: How do we know what become
8 of the "lumpy jaw" cattle?
O How do the trust gentlemen know
3 Their employees are employed t
0 make much money for the trust geu
1 tlemen. How do we know the way
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