Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-23

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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 Is to be found
In meat. II is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
tion Is due always to an active agent
taken in some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lu,n.
py 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?
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 Of
greater importance than this. The op.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider In allowed to glimpse what
goes OIL there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You con 20 there and be enter.
tained with u fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
Tho 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 1t In
done or how It is done? Nobody out.
side OF the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" is cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy Jaw IL communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 70 fur AZ liz
could, the slaughtering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with q reve.
latiOn that should have called Tor gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In 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. Y, a remarkable book,
'"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementing the charges Of the 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 and the charge was explicitly
made that carelessnes' rcigned every.
where; that im.;ur prvuucts were In.
bitually sent out for c0nsumptio that
meat ut 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.
clfic 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
polsOIad by embalmed beef, the games
Of gouge ahd robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulatlon of thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied by this com.
binatlon upon all households in tho
country. Let us forget that they are
law.breakers and money.mad and as.
sumo that not one Of them would
touch a 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 to
make much money for the trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money 10 made?
how do the trust gentlemen know1
Here ID stream OF the most terrible
infection passing daily within Q tsw
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