Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-09-07

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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 IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec
ton IL due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
rhe 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 "iumpy Jaw" What
becomes Of them2
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 In Of
greater importance than this. The or.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider 10 allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 90 there aud he enter.
tained with q fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted a. 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 sees
the burning2 Who knows that 1t II
done or how It II done7 Nobody out.
aide Of the employees. All we know
10 that "lumpy law" 10 cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
"lumpy jaw" Ia communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sent man
to Chicago to Investigate. 30 far ~ he
could, the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with revs.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
srnmsnt 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 those
conditions. To. this scathing indlct.
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown. N. T.. q remarkable book,
THE Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementing tho charges Of the Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
~ could hardly have been supplied BIZ
anything but personal knowledge The
whole process Of manufacture In the
trust houses was followed with minute
care aud the charge was explicitly
made that carelessness reigned every.
where; that Inn 0ee prvaucts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat ut only for destruction was I'm.
bitualiy worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise its taste aud sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array Of spe.
cldc 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 scrupulOus about all
the ways In which they make money.
Suppose We forget about the soldiers
poisOEsd by embalmed beef, the games
Of gOuge aud robbery practiced by the
trust Refrigerator car lines, the aanip.
ulation Of q thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
bination upon oil households In the
country. Let 10 forget that they are
law.breakers and money.mad and a..
sumo that not one Of them would
touch q cent Of questionable profts.
still this question stares us In the
face: How do we know what becomes
Of the ''lumpy jaw" cattls2
How do the trust gentlemen known
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money 10 nader
How do the trust gentlemen knowS
Here 10 stream OF the most terrible
infA ton passing daily within . tew
nshss Of ths nAtien's feed supply.