Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-09

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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of medi.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin of the bu-
man cancer infection IL to be found
In meat. It Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or Il 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.
py 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?
I 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 o!
greater Importance than this. The op'
eratiOns Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. NO
outsider Ia allowed to glimpse what
goes OH there. No representative OF
the public ever gets behind that cur
tain. You Gun go there ana be enter
tained with a fake exhibition Of fax,
slaughterlng conducted as a public
| spectacle. That amounts to nothing
The real work no one ever sees bu,
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat
tie? Theoretically they are burned ani
converted into fertilizer. Who see,
the burning? Who knows that 1t II
done or how II Ia done? Nobody out
side OF the employees. All We know
Is that "lumpy law" Is cancer; tina
many cattle have "lumpy jaw tha
"lumpy jaw" Is communicable and tina
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the LEADING
medical journal Of Europe, sent a maj
to Chicago to investigate, 80 far rs b.
could, the slanghtering processes Of tn
trust houses. He returned with a reve
lation that should have called for gov
ernment investigation. He declare,
that the methods employed were mos
4 unsanltary. That the work was don
, In a hurried, careless, sllpshOd way
that there was no tolernble inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the hsaltl
OF the world was menaced by thcs
conditions. To this scathing indie!
ment from q great medical au'h0rlt
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently, there appeared Il
Jamestown, n. Y, a remarkable book
"The Dark Side OF the Beef Trust.
apparently written by an expert, sur
plementing the charges OF the Lance
ana enforcing them with such detail!
as could hardly have been supplied b.
anything but personal knowledge. Tn
whole process Of manufacture In tn
trust houses was followed with minut
care and the charge was explicit
made that carelessness rcigned every
where; that In. .'dre prSiucts were ha
bltually sent out for consumption; tina
meat tit only for destruction was Ia
bitually worked up with spices an
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold I
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF sp,
chc assertions no answer was eve
made.
Here. then, are two witnesses tha
solemnly declare that the conditions
the trust slaughter houses are eXactl
such as would allow the meat {
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out q
, food.
suppose that We take of the matte
the most charitable view possibl
, Suppose we assume that the trust gel
tlemen are most scrupulous about n
the ways In which they make none,
suppose we forget about the soldier
poisoned by embalmed beef. the game
, of gouge AID robbery practiced by IL
trust refrigerator car lines, the maniI
ulatiOn of thousand markets Il
, profits. the tribute levied by this con
binatlon upon all households In Ii
country. Let us forget that they al
law-breakers and money-mad and a
sumo that not one of them w0ul
touch cent Of questionable profits.
. Still this question stares Us In II
face: How do we know what become
, Of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle?
!, How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed
} make much money for the trust gel
, | &lo,.aon Hou, dn u,a knoyR tho WAY