Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-20

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'F'rom 1885 to 1890 the figures are
missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of meil.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer Infection Is to be found
In meat. It IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec-
tion is due always to an active ngept
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with 'lum.
py jaw" would be such nn agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week. many cat.
tie afflicted with "lunipy 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 In Of
greater importance than this. The op.
| oso tIcos ~ &1,c.n sao % rvl,xos housns ow~
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider II allowed to glimpse what
goes ON there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 60 there and be enter.
taIned with o fake exhibition Of fake
slaughterlnR conducted as 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 fertilizer. Who sees
the burning? Who knows that It II
| done or how II is done? Nobody out.
side OF the employees. All we know
Ia that "lumpy law" In cancer: that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw:" that
'lumpy jaw" Ia communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sent a man
to Chicago to investigate. 30 far as 10
could, the slanghterIng processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with revs.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In a hurried, careless, slipshod way;
that there was no t0lerable inspection
{ or sanitary supervision; that the health
Of the world was menaced by those
| conditions. TO this scathing indlct.
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently, there appeared In
jamestown, N. T., q remarkable book.
'"rhe Dark Side OF the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert. sup.
plementing the charges Of the Lancet
ana 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 rclgned every.
where; that impure proaucts were ha.
bitually sent out for cOnsumpt tIon; that
meat ft only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugS to disguise Its taste aud sold Ia
the public.
To this extraordinary array of spe-
cifc 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 scrupul0us about all
the ways In which they make money.
suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. tho games
OF gouge aha robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines. the manip.
ulation Of a thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
binatiOn upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
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 tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways |
In which the money 10 made?
How do the trust gentlemen know3 |
Here 10 stream Of the most terrible |
infection passing daily within Q few |
inches Of the nations food supply.