Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-08


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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of med'.
cal investigation has been toward tho
conclusion that the origin OF the hu.
man cancer Infection Is to be found
In meat. II Is no longer held to he
possible that cancer or Il tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The lnfcc
tion 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 cn'-
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
tho slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
a man who desires to live that ID o:
greater Importance than this. The op'
erations OF those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. Ma
outsider II allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative oi
tho public ever gets behind that cur
thin. You can 20 there and be enter
tained with q fake exhibition Of fake
slaughterlng conducted ~ a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing
The real work no one ever sees bu'
tho employees.
What becomes of the diseased cat
tlef Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who see'
the burning? Who knows that It Il
| done or how It is done? Nobody out
side Of the employees. All we know
is that 'lumpy law" Ia cancer: tina
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" tha
"lumpy jaw" Ii communicable and tina
cancer frightfuily increases.
The London Lancet, the leadin,
medical Journal Of Europe, sent maj
to Chicago to investigate. no far as IL
could, the slamghtering processes Of tn,
| tr,,ot hns,aas TN rot,pond v,,ttI, m vov..
lati0n that should have called for gov
ernment investigation. He declares
that the methods employed were mos
unsanltary. That the work was don,
In hurried. careless, slipshod way
that there was no tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the hsaltl
] of the world was menaced by thcs'
conditions. To this scathing indict
ment from q great medical auth0rlt!
no serious defense was ever made
Subsequently. there appeared Il
Jamestown. N. Y, remarkable book
"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust,
apparently written by an expert. sup
plementing the charges of the Lance
anu enforcing them with such detail,
as could hardly have been supplied by
anything but personal knowledge. Tn,
whole process Of manufacture In tn,
trust houses was followed with minut,
care and the charge was explicit,
made that carelessness reigned every
where; that impure pi..iucts were ha
bitually sent out for consumption; tina
meat ut only for destruction was ha
bitually worked up with spices AM
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold {,
the public.
10 this extraordinary array of spe
ciAc assertions no answer was eve
made.
Here, then, are two witnesses tina
solemnly declare that the conditions II
the trust slaughter houses are exactly
such ns would allow the meat O.
"mmpy jaw" cattle to be sent out al
food.
Suppose that We take Of the matte
the most charitable view possible
Suppose we assume that the trust gen
tlemen are most scrupulOus about al
the ways In which they make money
Suppose we forget about the soldier
pois0red by embalmed beef, the games
OF g0uge a,id robbery practiced by tin
trust refrigerator car lines, the mnnIp
ulation of a thousand markets ro
profits. tho tribute levied by this com
binatlon upon all households In tn,
country. Let Us forget that they ar,
law.breakers and money.mnd and as
sumo that not one Of them woult
touch a cent Of questionable pr"hfs.
Still this question stares us Ia tn,
face: How do we know what becomes
Of the ''lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed L
make much money for thu trust gen
tlemen. How do We know the way
In which the money 10 made?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Hero " . stream OF the most tsrribl
infection passing daily within . 6sv
inehss Of the nations food supply