Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-19

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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of medl.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer Infection is to be found
IN meat. II IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infcc
tlon Is due always to an active agep,
taken In some way into the system
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum.
py jaw" would be such IN agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week. many cnt.
tic afflicted with "lumpy Jaw" What
becomes Of them?
I don't know; you don't know; no.
body knows outside Of the precincts Oi
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 op'
erations Of those slaughter houses are
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 20 there and he enter.
talned with fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtcrlng conducted as 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 II
done or how II Is done? Nobody out.
side Of tho employees. All we know
Ii that "lumpy law" IL cancer: that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;' that
"lumpy jaw" Is communicable ana that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent a man
to Chicago to Investigate, 30 far NJ hc
could, the slamghterIng processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve'
lation that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that tho 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. Y, u remarkable book
'"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by IN expert. sup.
plementing the charges OF the Lancet
ana enforcing them with such details
Us 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 relgned every.
where; that imp0re prUducts were ha.
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat lit only for destruction was I'm.
bitually worked up with spices ana
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array Of spe.
cltic 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 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.
t'Vhicu UTe uOst bCTupuiOub aUOuL u!I
the ways In which they make money.
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
of gOuge and robbery practiced 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
w.breakers ana 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 gen.
tlemen. How do We know the ways
In which the money Ia made?
How do the trust gentlemen know9
here Ii stream of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within few
inches Of the nations food supply.