Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-16

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These are sample pages 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 he found
In meat. II is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec-
tlon is due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
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 cut.
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 Is 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.
tained with a fake exhibition OF fakc
slaugliterlng conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no ono ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tie? theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burnlngY Who knows that It IL
done or how It Is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
II that "lumpy law" is cancer: that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" is communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. SO far a. he
could. the slamghtering 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 a 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 q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown, N. T., a 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 carelessness reigned every.
where; that I'm .'dre prvuucts were IN. |
bitually sent out for consumption; that |
meat fit 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-
citic 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
'oOd.
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
'f gouge aud robbery practiced by tile
rust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
llatlOn OF thousand markets for
Profits. the tribute levied by this com.
upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
aw'breakers and money-mad aud as.
'ume that not one OF them would
ouch cent of questionable profits.
Still this question stares us In the
ace: How do we know what becomes
II the "lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen.
lemen. How do we know the ways
n which the money is made? |,
How do the trust gentlemen know1
Here is stream of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within q few
inches OF the nations food supply.