Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-06

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'From 1886 to 1890 the figures are
missing.
These are samp,e pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of metii.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection IL to be found
In meat. Il II no longer held to be
possible that cancer or q tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
tion 10 due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with 'luin.
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 them3
I don't know; you don't know; no
body knows outside Of the precincts Of
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can DO no question 10
man who desires to live that 10 Of
greater importance than this. The or
0rations 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 70 there and be enter.
tained with q fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted ~ q public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tier theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who SEES
the burningi Who knows that II In
done or how II 10 done2 Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" 10 cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
"lumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sont q man
to Chicago to Investigate, 10 far a. he
could, the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses, He returned with a rove.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
eminent investiga ton. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In 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 q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, N. Y, a remarkable book,
"The Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementing the charges Of the Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
az 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 carelessueas reigned every.
where; that impure prvaucts were ha.
bitually sent out for CONSUME tion; that
meat ut only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices and
drues to disguise Its taste aud sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array Of spe.
clic 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 ana robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulatiOn Of 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 m0ney-mad and az.
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 madei
How do the trust gentlemen know1
Here is stream OF the most terrible
infection passing daily within . few
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