Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-20

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1OO3-O4.. 4,387 d
'From 1886 to 1900 the figures are
missing.
These are sampse pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of medl.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection In to be found
In meat. II IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec-
ton Ii due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "luin.
py Jaw" would he such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week, many cat.
tic 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 Ii Of
greater Importance than this. The OF.
erations 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.
tanned with fake exhibition OF fake
Strengthening conducted rs a 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 1t IL
done or how It Is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" IL cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
"lumpy jaw" Is communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sent n man
to Chicago to investigate. 80 far as hc
could, the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
uhsanitary. That the work was done
In a hurried. careless. silpshod 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 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, sup.
plementing the charges of the Lancet
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 carelessnesa reigned every.
where; that impuee Products were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices ana
drugs to disguise it, taste and sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array Of spe.
ci6c assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, then. are two witnesses that
s0lemnly declare that the conditions In
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such az would allow the meat OF
"lumpy Jaw" cattle to be sent out az
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 ths soldiers
poisoned BY smbalmsd bsaf, the sanss
Of youOs and robbery practced By the
trust refrigerator car lines, the masip.
ulat&oa OF Q thousand marksts for
profits, the tribute levied BY this com.
binatioa upon all households N the
country. Let 10 forget that they are
lAw-brsakers and monsy-mad and as
sumo tiiat not one OF them would
touch cent Of questionable pronts.
SUI this question SHARES ~ In the
face: How do We know what becomes
Of the "lumpy jaw" cattIei
How do the trust gentlemen know!
Their employees arc employed 10
make much money for the trust gsa.
tlemen. How do We know tho ways
In which the money y nader
How do the trust ssntismsn know3
Here y q stream Of the msst terrible
infection passing daily within . 1sw
iashss Of ~ nsNsa's leod supplV.