Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-01-12

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missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of med,.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the iu.
man cancer infection Is to he found
In meat. 1t is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infcc.
ton Is due always to an active agent
tnken in some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum.
py jaw" would be such IN 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
man who desires to live that IL Of
greater importance than this. The op.
eratIOns Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider ID 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 fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
tho employees.
tie? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burning? Who knows that It IL
done or how It is done? Nobody out.
side OF the employees. All we know
Ii TINT "lumpy law" In cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy jaw" is communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sent a man
to Chicago to investigate. 70 far a. 10
could. the slaMghterinR processes Of the
trust houseA 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, slipshod way;
that there was no t0lerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that tho health
Of the world was menaced BY these
conditions. To this scathing ind!ct.
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown, N. T., remarkable book,
THE Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sun.
plementing the charges Of the Lancet
ana enforcing them with such details
as could hardly have been supplied by
anything but personal knowledge, Tho
whole process Of manufacture In the
trust houses was followed with minnie
care and the charge was explIcItly
made that carelessness reigned every.
where; that impure Products were ha.
bitually sent out for consumpt ton: that
meat ut only for destruction was hn.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold IN
the public.
To this extraordinary array Of spe.
cihc 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 az |
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 and' robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
ulation of a thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
bination upon all households In the
country. Let us forget that they are
law-brcakers and money-mad ana az.
sume that not one of them would
touch cent Of questionable profits.
stu this question stares US In the
Tace' How do we know what becomes
,f the 'lumpy jaw" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for tho trust gen
,lemen. How do We know the ways
n which the money Is made?
How do the trust gentlemen kn0wi
Here is a stream of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within a few
nches Of the nations food supply.