Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-09

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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 hn.
man cancer infection II to he found
In meat. II Is 10 longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec
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 cat.
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 Is Of
greater Importance than this. The op.
eratiOns Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Ii allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there ana be enter.
talned with fake exhibition Of fake
slaughterlng 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 ana
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burningY Who knows that It II
done or how II Is done? Nobody out
side OF the employees. All we know
Is that 'lumpy law" is cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;" that
'lumpy jaw" II communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 30 far as ho
could. the slanghtering processes Of tho
trust houses He returned with reve.
latiOn that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In a hurried. careless. slipshod way;
that there was no t0lerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
OF the world was menaced by those
conditions. TO this scathlng indict.
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown, N. Y, remarkable book,
'"Ihe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementing the charges Of the Lancet
ana 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 tho charge was explicitly
made that carelessness reigned every.
where; that I'm. ..are prU,,Gcts were ho.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was I'm.
bitually worked up with spices ana
drugs to disguise Its taste and sold to
the public.
To this extraordinary array of spe.
clfc 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 |
pOisOIed by embalmed beef. the games |
of gouge aud robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator ear lines, the manip. |
ulatlOn OF thousand markets for |
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
upon all households I'm the
Let us forget that they are
and money-mad ana an.
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" cattle?
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed TO
make much money for tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money Ia made?
How do the trust gentlemen know9
Here is stream Of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within q few
inches OF the nations food supply.