Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-21

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These are sample 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 Ii to be found
In meat. II II no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
ton ID due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the Systen,.
The meat Of cattle AFFLICTED 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 them3
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 10 allowed to glimpse That
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 60 there and be enter.
taincd with q fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted 40 q public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tlef Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who secs
the burning? Who knows that 1t In
done or how It IL done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All We know
Ia that ''lumpy law" is cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"iumpy jaw Is communicable and that
cancer frIghtfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent a man
to Chicago to investigate, 90 fur as hc
could. the slaughtering 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
unsanitary. 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 lndict.
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently, there appeared In
Jamestown, N. Y, a remarkable book,
"rhe Dark Side Of tho Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementing the charges Of the Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
rs 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 carelessne@ reigned every.
where; that impure prSiucts were ba.
bitualiy sent out for consumption; that
meat lit only for destruction was In.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugS to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array of spe.
ciAc 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 scrupul0us about all
the ways In which they make money.
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
Of gOuge and robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manIp.
ulatlon of thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
binatiOn upon oil households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law-breakers and mOney-mad and as
sumo that not 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" cattle2
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money 10 made3
How do the trust gentlemen kuow1
Here ID q stream OF the most terrible
infa tion passing daily within . IN
isehas Of ths natea's food Guuply.