Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-25

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'From 1885 to 1906 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of med'.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer Infection Is to be found
in meat. It Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec.
ton Is due always to an active agept
taken In some way into the system.
The meat OF cattle afflicted with 'lum.
py Jaw" would be such m 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
tho slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
man who desires to live that is Of
greater Importance than this. The 0p.
erations 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 90 there and be enter
tained with fake exhibition OF fake
slaughterlng conducted a. public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no ono ever sees but
tho employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tie? Theoretically they are burned and
converted Into fertilizer. Who sees
the burning? Who knows that It IL
done or how 1t Is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
is that "lumpy law" Is cancer; that
many cattle have "luinpy jaw;" 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, 30 fur as he
could, the Strengthening 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 a hurried, careless, slipsh0d way;
that there was no tOlerable inspection
, or sanitary supervision; that the health
Of the world was mcnaced by these
conditions. TO this scathins indlct.
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, n. y, a remarkable book,
1.-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 relgned every.
where; that impure products were ha.
bltually sent out for consumption; tnNt
meat tit only for destruction was I'm.
bltually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array of spe.
clfic assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, then, are two witnesses that
solemnly declnre 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 gem
tlemen are most scrupulOus about all
the ways in which they make money.
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoIed by embalmed beef, the games
Of gouge aid robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator ear lines, the manlp-
ulatlOn of a thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this CON-
blnatlon upon all 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 a cent of questionable profits.
stlll this question stares us In the
face: How do we know what becomes
Of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle!
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do We know the ways
In which the money Ia made?
How do the trust gentlemen know1
Here is a stream of the most terrible
infection passing daily within q few
inches Of the nations food supply.