Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-19

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missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of medt.
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 to lie
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec'
ton Is due always to an active agert
taken In some way into the system.
The meat OF cattle afflicted with "lum.
ny Jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week. many cat
tic 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
a man who desires to live that Ii Of
greater importance than this. The or.
crations 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 go there ana be enter.
talned with fake exhibition Of fake
Strengthening conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no ono ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tic? Theoretically they IRE burned ana
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burning? Who knows TINT 1t IL
done or how It Is dOne2 Nobody out
side OF the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" In cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw:' that
"luinpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate, NO far ~ he
could. the Strengthening processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
lati0n that should have called for gov.
eminent investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In u hurried, careless. sllpshod way;
that there was no tolerable 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 an expert. sup
plementing the charges Of the Lancet
ann enforcing them with such details
rs could hardly have been supplied by
anything but personal know ledge. The
whole process OF manufacture In the
trust houses was followed with minute
care ana the charge Mas explicitly
made that carelessness relgned every.
where; that Impure pi..,dcts We're ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; TINT
meat lit only for destruction was ha-
J bitually worked up with spices and
J drugs to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
TO this extraordinary array of spe.
clfic 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 practlced 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
aw-breakers and m0ney-mad and Us.
sumo that not ono OF them would
touch a cent of questionable profits.
Still this question stares US In the
| foco. How dO wa know what hacomes
of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle2
!. How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed ia
.. make much money for tho trust gen.
I! tlemen. How do We know the ways
:! In which the money 10 made?
How do the trust gentlemen know
II Here IL stream OF the most terrible
l lnfA ton passing daily within . few
) sssins Of the nations food supply.