Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-23

10O2.o3. .a.oas 81
lUUB-U4.. ............ .4.3'I vi
sFrom 1885 to 1876 tile 0surcs nrc
missing.
These are sample pages from tho
dreadful records. The trend "f melt.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hn.
man cancer infection Is to bc found
In meat. II Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or u tendency 10
cancer can be inherited. The lnlcc
tion Is due always to an active ager:
taken In some way into the system.
The meat OF cattle afflicted with "lu!a.
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 kpows outside OF the precincts Of
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
man who desires to live that ls Of
greater Importance than this. The op.
crations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Ia allowed to glimpse what
gops on there. No representative o:
the public ever gets behind that cur
tnin. You can 80 there ami lc, enter.
I taineL with a fake exhibition Of fake
p, s!nughter.nS conducted as public
F, spectacle. That amounts to nothing
| The real work no ono ever sccs hui
| the employees.
| What becomes Of tho diseased cat
to? Theoretically they are burned ana
/ converted Into fertilizer. WHO scs.
the burning? Who knows that II I'
done or how It Ia done? Nobody out
side OF the employees. All VIC know
IL that "lumpy law" Is cancer; thai
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
"iunipy jaw" Ia communicable and thai
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical Journal Of Europe, sent mar
to Chicago to investigate, so far as b,
could, the slaughtering processes Of tn
trust houses. He returned with reve
latiOn that should have called for gov
ernment investigation. He declarot
that the methods employed We're mos
{ unsanltary. That the work was don'
IN q hurried, careless, slipshOd way
that there was no tOlerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the healtl
Of the world was menaccd by thcs
conditions. TO this scathlng lnd!ct
ment from a great medical au'horlt!
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently, there appeared II
Jamestown, n. Y, a remarkable bool,
"The Dark Side of the Beef Trust.
apparently written by an expert, sup
plemcnting 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
J trust houses was followed with minut
care and the charge was expllcitl
made that carelessnssS rcigned every
. where; that impure prSilcts were la
bltually sent, out for consumption; tim
meat tit only for destruction was ha
bitually worked up with spices an
, drugs to disguise Its taste and sold I
| the public.
10 this extraordinary array of spt
cltic assertions no answer was eve
, made.
Here, then, are two witnesses thN
, solemnly declare that the conditions
the trust slaughter houses are exactl
such as would allow the meat q
"lumpy jaw" cattle to be sent out
4 food.
\ suppose that We take of the matte
\ the most charitable view possible
! Suppose we assume that the trust gel
4 tlemen are most scrupulous about a
& the ways in which they make none,
? Suppose we forget about the soldier
. poisoIed by embalmed beef, the game
q of gouge ard robbery practiced by II
7 trust refrigerator car lines, the mnn!'
4 | ulation of a thousand markets II
n profits. the tribute levied by this con
3 binatlon upon oil households In Il
: country. Let us forget that they III
= law-brcakers and money-mad AMI n
4 sumo that not one OF them won
3 touch a cent Of questionable profits.
2 Sti!l this question stares MS In I.
5 face: How do we know what become
8 of the "lumpy jaw" cattle?
oil How do the trust gentlemen know
8 Their employees are employed
0 make much money for tho trust &c
1 tlemen. How do we know the VI!