Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-24


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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 Is to be found
In meat 1t Is no longer held to he
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec
ton Is due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat OF cattle afflicted with "lum-
ny jaw" would be such IN agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust. week by week. many cnt-
tie 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 Is Of
greatcr importance than this. The or.
erations Of those slaughter houses nrc
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 DO enter.
talned with fake exhibition Of fake
Strengthening conducted 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 It In
done or how It Is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All We know
IN that "lumpy law" IL cancer: that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" Is communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 80 far as he
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
unsanltary. That the work was done
In 4 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 scathlng indlct.
ment from a great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown. n. u, u remarkable book.
THE Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sun.
piementing 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 impure prvaucts were IN.
bltua!!y sent out for cOnsump tion: tnot
meat lit only for destruction was ha.
bltually worked up with spices ana
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold to
the public.
10 tins extraordinary array of spe-
cihc assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, then, are two witnesses TINT
sOlemnly declare that the conditions In
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such rs 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 scrupulOus about all
the ways In which they make money.
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoIed by embalmed beef, the games
of gouge aud robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines. the manip.
ulatl0n of thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this CON-
bination upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they arc
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" cattle.
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gem
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money Is made?
How do the trust gentlemen know9
Hero IL q stream of the most terrible
iAfA ton passing daily within q few
inches Of the nA1eu's food supply.