Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-28

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'From 1885 to 1900 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. Tho trend of mcdi.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin of the hu.
man cancer Infection Is to he found
In meat. 1t Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or n tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec.
tlon Is due always to an active ngept
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 cn..
tic 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 Of
greater Importance than this. The or.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Is allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can go there ana be enter
talncd with n fake exhibition Of fake
slaughterlng conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no ono ever sees but
tho employees.
What becomes OF the diseased cat.
tic? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who secs
the burning? Who knows that It IL
done or how It is done? Nobody out.
side Of tho employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" Is cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, tho leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to Investigate, no far rs he
could, the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with a rcve.
lation that should have called for gov
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In hurried. careless. sllpshOd way;
that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
of the world was menaced by these
conditions. 10 this scathlng lndIct.
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.
plementlng 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 ana the charge was explicitly
made that carelessness relgned every.
where; that impure products were ha.
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat lit only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices ana
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array of spe.
clhc assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here. then, are two witnesses that
solemnly declare that the conditions In
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such rs would allow the meat Of
"lumpy jaw" cattle to he sent out us
food.
Suppose that VIC take of the matter
the most charitable view possible.
Suppose we assume that the trust gel-
tlemen are most scrupulous about all
the ways In which they make money.
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef, the games
of gouge ard robbery practlced by tho
trust refrigerator car lines, the manp.
ulatiOn OF u thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
blnatlon upon all households In the
country, Let us forget that they are
law-breakers ana money-mad ami W.
sumo that not one of them wond
touch cent of questionable profits,
Still 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