Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-28

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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of mcd'.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection IL to be found
In meat. II Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or n tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec-
ton In 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 nm 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
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
man who desires to live that Is Of
greater importance than this. The OF.
erati0ns of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider II allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there ana be enter.
tained with a fake exhibition of fake
slaughterIng conducted a. public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one over 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 II II
done or how It Is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
Ia that "lumpy law" In cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" is communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent a man
to Chicago to investigate. 10 fur as la
could. the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with n reve.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
eminent investigation. He declared
that tho methods employed were most
unsanltary. That tho work was done
In q hurried, careless, sllpshOd way
that there was no t0lerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathIng indlct
ment from great medical au'horlty
no serious defense was ever made
subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, n. Y, a remarkable book
1.-THE Dark Side OF the Beef Trust
apparently written by an expert, sup
plementing the charges of the Lance,
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 eXpllcltly
made that carelcssness reigned every
where; that impure proiucts were bu
bItually sent out for consumption thai
meat tit only for destruction was I'm
bitually worked up with spices anu
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold t.
the public.
10 this extraordinary array Of spe
ciAc assertions no answer was eve.
made.
Here. then. are two witnesses tina
solemnly declare that the conditions In
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such rs would allow the meat Of
"lumpy 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 soldier,
poisoned by embalmed beef. the game,
Of gouge AID robbery practlced by tlit
trust refrigerator car lines, the manIp
ulatiOn of a thousand markets fol
profits, the tribute levied by this com
binatlon upon all households In tn,
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 til.
face: How do we know what become.
of the "lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know,
Their employees are employed Il
make much money for tho trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the Wayi
In which the money ID made3
How do the trust gentlemen know
Here II q stream OF the most terrible
infA tion passing daily within . few
inches Of the nation's food supply