Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-02-23

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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 be found
In ment. II Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be 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 cat.
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
a man who desires to live that 10 Of
greater importance than this. The op.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider u allowed TO glimpse what
goes ON there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 90 there and be enter.
tained with . fake exhibition Of fako
slaughtering conducted - . 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 burningf Who knows that It In
done or how Il 10 done3 Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
is that 'lumpy law" 10 cancer; that
many cattle have 'lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent q man
to Chicago to Investigate. 30 far as he
could. the slanghtering processes Of the
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 tolerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
Of the world was menaced by these
conditions. 10 this scathing indlct.
ment from q 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.
plementing the charges Of the Lancet
anu enforcing them with such details
AZ could hardly have been supplied BIZ
anything but personal knowledge The
whole process Of manufacture In the
trust hOuses was followed with minute
cure and the charge was explicitly
made that carelessness reigned every.
where; that impIre prvaucts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat at only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices and
druss to disguise its taste and sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array Of spe.
cific 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 a.
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 tile
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
law-breakers and mOney.mad and az.
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 the trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money ID madsi
How do the trust gentlemen know3
Here 10 q stream Of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within Q fsw
inchss Of ths nationS food supply!