Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-13


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These are sampse 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 ID to be found
In meat. Il II no longer held 10 be
possible that cancer or q tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
ton II due always to an active agcpt
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afYiicted with "lum.
py jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week. many cat.
tie afflicted with 'lumpy Jaw" What
becomes Of themf
don't know; you don't know; no
body knows outside Of the precincts Of
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can b no question b
q man who desires to live that 10 Of
greater importance than this. The or.
srations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider 10 allowed 10 glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever sets behind that cur.
tain. You can % there and be enter.
tained with q fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtsring conducted % . public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tlsI Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burnlnRi Who knows that Il In
done or how II 10 donei Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" 10 cancer; that
many cattle have "iumpy Jaw" that
''iumpy jaw" In communicable and that
cancer friEhtfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe. s0nt man
to Chicago to Investigate, 10 far A DO
could, the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses He returned with revs-
lation that should have called for gov.
eminent investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In q hurried, careless. slipshod way;
that there was no tolerable Inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
Of the world was menaced by those
conditions. To this scathing indict.
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, N. Y, q remarkable book,
THE Dark Side OF the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert SUD.
plementing the charges Of the Lancet
ann enforcing them with such details
~ could hardly have been supplied BIZ
anything but personal knowledge. The
whole process Of manufacture In the
trust houses was followed with minute
care and tho charge was explicitly
made that careiessuess reigned every.
where; that impure products wore ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat At only for destruction was ha.
bituany worked up with spices and
druss 70 disguise its taste and sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array Of sps,
cinc assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here. then. are two Witnesses that
solemnly declare that tbe conditions IN
the trust slaughter houses arc exactly
such as would allow TIE meat OF
"lumpy jaw" cattle to b ssut out -
food.
Suppose that We take Of the mattsr
the most charitable vtsw possible.
Suppose we assume that the trust zen.
uemsn are most scrupulous about all
the ways In which they make money.
suppose We forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embaIned beet. the genes
Of gOuSe aud robbery practiced BY the
trust refrigerator car lines, ths manip-
ulation OF Q thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied BY this com.
hinatlon upon all households In the
country. Let 40 forget that they are
iaw.breakers and money-mad and a..
sumo that not one Of them would
touch cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares % In the
face: How do we know what becomes
of the ''lumpy jaw" cattlei
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 madei
How do tho trust gsntiemsn know1
Here 10 q stream OF The most tsrrible
infection passins daily within . esw
inches Of IL nAtiea's I'D supply'