Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-21

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'From 1885 to 1906 the figures are
missing.
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
tion IL 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 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
man who desires to live that Is o!
greater Importance than this. The op.
crations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Is allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there and be enter.
talned with fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted us 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 Is done? Nobody out.
side OF the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" Ia 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, 30 far as hG
could, the slamghtering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
latiOn 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 health
OF the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathlng indIc..
ment from 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,
plemcnting the charges Of the Lancet
am, enforcing them with such details
as could hardly have been supplied by
anything hut 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 i'm !, ,ufe pfv,iucts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; tina,
! meat fit only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise its taste ana sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF spe.
ciic assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, then, are two witnesses tina,
solemnly declnr" 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 a!
the ways In which they make money
, Suppose We forget about the soldiers
, pOisoEed by embalmed beef, the games
, of gouge ana robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip
ulatiOn of thousand markets fol
profits. the tribute levied by this com
bination upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
breakers and m0ney-mad and as
sumo that not one OF them would
touch a cent of questionable profits.
81 Still this question stares us In thu
} face: How do we know what becomes
Of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle9
81 How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed t.
! make much money for the trust gen
! tlemen. How do we know the wayi
J In which the money ID madef
81 How do the trust gentlemen know
)| Here 10 q stream Of the most terrible
infection passing daily within Q fsw
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