Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-22

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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 Is to be found
In meat. II Is no longer held 70 he
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec.
ton II due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum.
ny jaw would be such IN agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust. week by week. many cnt.
tie afflicted with "lumpy 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
man who desires to live that Ii o!
greater Importance than this. The OF.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Ia allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there and be enter.
tained with fake exhibition Of fake
slaugStering 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 1t is
done or how II IL done? Nobody out.
side OF the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" IL cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent a man
to Chicago TO Investigate. 10 far as he
could. the slamghtering processes Of the
trust h0uses. He returned with reve-
latiOn that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In hurried, careless. slipshOd way;
that there was no tolsrable 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, q remarkable book.
THE Dark Side Of the. Reef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, SUP.
.plementing the charges OF the Lancet
ana enforcing them with such details
40 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 IN. lure prU,ucts were In.
bitually sent out for consumption that
meat ut only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices and
druss to disguise its taste aud sold TO
the public.
To this extraordinary array OF spe.
cihc assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here. then, are two witnesses that
solemniy declare that The conditions In
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such 40 would allow the meat OF
"lumpy Jaw" cattle to be ssut out %
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 beet, the games
Of gouge aud robbery practieed BY the
trust refrigerator car lines. the manip.
ulation Of q thousand markets for
prohts. the tribute levied By this com.
bination upon al households In the
country. Let % forget that they are
law.breakers and m0ney.mad and %. y,
sumo that not one Of them would
touch . cent Of questionable pro6ts.
sun this question stares 10 In the
face: How do we know what becomes
Of the ''iumpy 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 vaye
In which the money 10 made?
How do the trust ssntlomeu know9
Here 10 stream OF the most terrible
infection passing daily within Q esw
inshss Il ~ naeou's food sspply.