Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-09-22

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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. 1t Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec
ton 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 cn;-
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
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 20 there and be enter.
tained with fake exhibition Of fake
siaughtcring 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 It is
done or how II Is done? Nobody out
side OF the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" Ia cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" Ia communicable and that
cancer frIghtfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
70 Chicago to Investigate, 80 far rs hc
could. the slamghtering processes Of the
trust houses He returned with a reve.
latlon that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. 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 menaced by those
conditions. To this scathlng indlct
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown. n. Y, a remarkable book
"rhe Dark Side OF the Beef Trust.
apparently written by an expert. sup
plementing the charges Of the Lance,
anu 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 reigned every,
where; that m.,dre prviucts We're ha
b!tually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was Ia
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs To disguise Its taste and sold tC
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF spe
cihc assertions no answer was eve.
made.
Here. then. are two witnesses that
solemnly declare that the conditions Ia
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such as would allow the meat OF
"mmpy jaw" cattle to be sent out al
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 In which they make money
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef, the games
Of gOuge aid robbery practiced by thu
trust refrigerator ear lines, the manip
ulatlon of thousand markets fol
profits, the tribute levied by this com
blnatiOn upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law.breakers and mOney.mad ana as
sumo that not one Of them would
touch cent Of questionable profits.
still this question stares us In the
face: How do We know what becomes
OF the "lumpy jaw" cattley
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed tG
make much money for the trust gen
uemen. How do We know the ways
In which the money is made?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Here IL a stream of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within q few
tncl>a~ NJ thA natiOn'a fond nunnlv