Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-13

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'Trom 1885 to 1906 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 Is to be found
In meat. It Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec-
ton Is due always to an active agent
taken in some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with ''luin.
py jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust. week by week. many cnt.
tic 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
man who desires to live that Is Of
greater importance than THU. The OF.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider IL 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.
tnined with a fake exhibition Of fakc
slaughterlng conducted as 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 II
done or how It Ii done? Nobody out.
side of the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" Ia cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" Is communicable ana that
cancer frIghtfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent a man
to Chicago to investigate, 10 far as lo
could, the slanghtering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with q reve.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. 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 indlct.
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently, there appeared In
jamestown, N. Y, remarkable book,
'',rhe Dark Side OF the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sun.
plementlng the charges OF the Lancet
ana enforcing them with such details
us 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 rcigned every.
where; that Impure 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 Its taste aud sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array of spe.
cific 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 |
poisoned by embalmed beef, the games |
Of gouge aha robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines. the manip.
ulatl0n of thousand markets for |
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
upon all households In the
Let US forget that they are
law.brcakers and m0ney.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" cattle?
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 made?
How do the trust gentlemen knowS
Here 10 stream OF the most tsrrible
Infection passing daily within Q esw
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