Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-26


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"From 1886 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 IL to he found
In meat. It Is no longer held to bc
| possible that cancer or Il tendency To
cancer can be inherited. The infcc
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
tic 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
u 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 70 there and DO enter
tanned with a fake exhibition OF fake
slauglitcrlng 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 Is done? Nobody out.
side of the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" Is cancer: that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;' that
"lumpy jaw" Is communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, tho leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate, so far rs ha
could, tho Strengthening processes OF the
trust houses. He returned with u reve-
latlOn that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed We're most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In u hurried, careless, slipshod way;
that there was no tolernble inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathlns lnd!c..
ment from great medical authority
10 serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently, there appeared In
Jamestown, n. y, a remarkable book,
"rhc Dark Side of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by IN expert, sup
plemcnting the charges of tho Lancet
ana enforcing them with such details
us 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 rcigned every.
where; that impure proiucts were la.
bitually sent out for consumption; tha,
meat tit only for destruction was ha.
bltually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise its taste and sold tO
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF spe'
chc assertions no answer was eve.
made.
Here. then, are two witnesses that
| Il la tl,D Il,
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such as would allow the meat OF
"Mmpy 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 al
the ways I'm which they make money
, Suppose wc forget about the soldiers
polsoEad by embalmed beef, the games
/, of gouge 0hd robbery practlccd by The
trust refrigerator ear lines. the manlp
ulation of thousand markets fol
} profits, the tribute levied by this com
, blnatlon upon all households IN thu
country. Let us forget that they are
J lawb breakers and money-mad ana rs
|, sumo that not one OF them wout
, touch a cent of questionable profits.
, Still this question stares us In thu
! face: How do we know what becomes
, of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle?
, How do the trust gentlemen know
, Their employees are employed t.
} make much money for tho trust gen
tlemen. How do we know tho way'
y In which the money Ia made?