Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-16

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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 he found
In meat. 1t In no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec
ton Is due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat of cattle afflicted with "lum.
py jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust. week by week. many cnt.
tie afflicted with "lumpy jaw" What
becomes Of them?
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 Is OF
greater importance than this. The Op.
crations OF those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider is allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You Gun go there and be enter
taincd with fake exhibition Of fake
slauglltering conducted as 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 In
done or how It IL dOne2 Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" Is cancer: that
many cattle have 'lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate, 10 fur as l9
could, the slaughtcring 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
unsanitary. That the work was done
In hurried, careless, slipsh0d way;
that there was no tolerable Inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by these
conditions. 10 this scathing lndlct.
ment from a great medical authority
10 serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, n. T., a remarkable book,
"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup
plementing the charges OF the Lancet
anu 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 reigned every.
where; that impure prvaucts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; tnat
meat tit only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array of spe-
clhc assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here. theE. 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 tho 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 practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulatiOn OF a thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
blnatlon upon all households IN the
country. Let us forget that they are
hw-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" cattleY
How do the trust gentlemen know I?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money is nader
How do the trust gentlemen know3
Here 10 q stream OF the most terrible
infection passing daily within Q tsw
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