Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-12

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1SU6V1.. .............2,00 u
1SO1-D0.. .8,A1 %
lo00-S0.. 1851 %
l000VU.. 80. go
ibVVeVl.. ..s go
lUOl'Vx.. 80. 80.
1DO2-O8.. 1905 81
10000. ............. 1857 81
'From 1885 to. 1895 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pnges from the
dreadful records. The trend Of med'.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection IL to be found
in meat. II IL no longer held to he
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
ton IL due always to an active agent
tnkcn in some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum-
ny Jaw" would be such m 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
a man who desires to live that Ii o!
greater Importance than this. The op.
cratiOns Of those slaughter houses nre
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider In allowed to glimpse whit
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 60 there ana be enter
tanned with a fake exhibition Of fake
Strengthening conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever secs but
tho employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat
tic? Theoretically they IRE burned and
converted Into fertilizer. Who secs
the burning? Who knows that It IL
done or how II is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
In that "lumpy law" In cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
"lumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent q man
to Chicago to investigate. 80 fur as hc
could, the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with rcve.
lati0n that should have called for gov.
ernment Investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In u hurried, careless. sllpshod why;
that there was 10 tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that tho health
Of the world was mcnaccd by these
conditions. TO this scathiny indlct.
, ment from n great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown, n. Y, u remarkable book.
'"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup
plemcntins the charges Of tho Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
AZ 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 carelessness reigned every.
where; that imyI prvulicts were Ia.
bitually sent out for consumption; TINT
meat tit only for destruction was In.
bltually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold To
the public.
To tins extraordinary array of spe.
cifc 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 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 the soldiers
polsoAs-u ny pSCts tuc SViucs
Of gOuge and robbery practlced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the Manip
ulation of a thousand markets FOL
profits. the tribute levied by this com
blnatiOn upon all households In IN.
country. Let us forget that they are
law-breakers npd money'mad and as
sumo that u4 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" cattleY
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed t.
make much money for tho trust gen
tlemen. How do we know the ways
! In which the money Is made?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Here II stream OF the most terrible
!nfA ton passing daily within Q few
s>s:zs OF the nations food supply,