Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-07-14

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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 hu.
man cancer Infection Ia to be found
In meat. 1t IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infcc.
ton Is due always to an active agept
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 cnt.
tie afflicted with "lumpy jaw" What
becomes Of them?
don't know; you don't know; no.
body knows outside Of the precincts Of
tho slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
q man who desires to live that Is Of
greater Importance than this. The or.
crati0ns Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider IL allowed to glimpse what
goes OH there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there and be enter.
tained with o fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted M public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing
The real work no one ever secs 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 II In
done or how II 10 done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
Ia that "lumpy law" is cancer; that
many cattle have 'lumpy jaw;' that
"lumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
capcer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sont man
to Chicago to investigate, 10 far a. he
could. the slanghtering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with a reve.
iation 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, slipshod way;
that there was no tolerable inspection
. or sanitary supervision; that the health
[ Of the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathing indlct.
ment from a great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, n. T.. remarkable book,
''The Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by On expert, sup.
plementing 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 reigned every.
where; that impure prsaiucts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise its taste and sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array OF spe-
cItic 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 as would allow the meat Of
"lumpy 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 all
the ways In which they make money.
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
pOisOEed by embalmed beef, the games
Of gouge ana robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the man!p.
ulatiOn of a thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this com.
bination upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law-breakers and m0ney-mad and 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" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money 10 nader
How do the trust gentlemen knowf
Here is stream OF the most terrible
infection passing daily within few
inches Of the nations food supply.