Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-07-27

.SOA -Sess - - 40
looz-O0'. ...........2,1S0 IL
loo6-O4.. ...........Z,1S6 II
16S4-S6s.. ......... .2,200 n
loVO'Vt.. ............Z,oOl o.
loUt'Uo.. .3,241 %
loUW'VV.. ............0,SO1 u
loUVOO.. ss.s.....s.s sss
VUUeO1.. ..........s ... s''
1OOl'UZ.. ... 80.
1902 .O3. ........4y e06 81
10000. ............. 4,387 01
sFrom 1886 to 1900 the figures are
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 In.
man cancer Infection II to he found
In meat. II Is no longer held to he
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can he inherited. The infec'
ton IL due always to an active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afflicted with "lum-
by 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?
I don't know: you don't knows, no.
body knows outside Of the precincts Of
the slaughter houses.
And yet there can be no question to
n man who desires to live that Is Of
greater importance than this. The or.
eratlons of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider IL allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 20 there and be enter.
taincd with a fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering 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 burningY Who knows that It In
done or how It Is done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All We know
Is that "lumpy law" Ia cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaws" that
"lumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal OF Europe, sent a man
to Chicago to investigate, no fur a. h9
could, the Strengthening processes of the
trust houses. He returned with reve-
latlOn that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanltary. That the work was done
In q hurried. careless, sllpshOd way;
that there was no tOlerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
,, OF the world was menaced by these
conditions. To this scathing ind!ct.
ment from a great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently, there appeared In
Jamestown, N. Y; a remarkable book,
''The Dark Side OF the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plementng. 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 relgned every.
where; that i'm. .ufe ptuidcts were Ia,
bitually sent out for consumption; tim,
meat lit only for destruction was In,
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise Its taste aud sold Il
the public.
To this extraordinary array of spe.
ciic assertions no answer was eve,
/ made.
! Here, then. are two witnesses thu,
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 al
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 al
the ways in which they make money
Suppose we forget about the soldiers
possessed by embalmed beef, the games
of gouge AID robbery practlced by thu
trust refrigerator ear lines, the manip
ulatiOn of a thousand markets fol
profits, the tribute levied by this com
blnaton upon all households in tn.
country. Let us forget that they ar,
, law-brcakers aud mOney-mad and as
sumo that not one of them would
touch a cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares us In til,
face: How do We know what become,
of the ''lumpy jaw" cattleY
How do the trust gentlemen know
Their employees are employed t.
make much money for the trust gen
tlemen How do we know the ways
In which the money Is made?
How do the trust gentlemen know
Here Is stream OF the most terrible
inta ton passing daily within few
inches of the nauon's food supply