Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-18

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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 be found
In meat. It Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec
tion IL due always to an active agept
taken In some way into the system.
The meat of cattle afflicted with "lu,n.
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 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
a man who desires to live that is Of
greater importance than this. The or.
erati0ns 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 and be enter.
tained with o fake exhibition Of fake
slaughterlng conducted 10 q 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 fertiliser. Who sees
the burningl Who knows that II In
done or how It 10 donei Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All We know
II that "lumpy law" 10 cancer; that
many cattle have ''lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" 10 communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to Investigate. 20 far a. he
could, the slanghtering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
lati0n that should have called for gov.
srnment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In a hurried. careless, slipsh0d way;
that there was no t0lerable inspection
, or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by these
conditions. TO this scathing indlct.
! 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 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 impure pr,~ilcts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was In.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise its taste and 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
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 aid robbery practicad by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulation of thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this COM
binatlon upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
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 tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money Ia made?
How do the trust gentlemen knOw1
Here IL q stream of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within . few
! inches OF the nations food supply.