Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-01

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These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend of mcd''
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer Infection IL to be found
In meat. It IL no longer held to bc
possible that cancer or a tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infcc'
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 tho trust, week by week. many cnt-
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 10 question to
a man who desires to live that ls o!
greater Importance than this. The Op.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Ii allowed to glimpse what
gocs on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tnIn. You can 20 there and be enter.
tnined with fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted a. a public
spectacle. That amounts TO nothing.
The real work no one ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tleY Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who secs
the burning? Who knows that II In
done or how II Ii done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
Ii that "lumpy law" In cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy jaw" In communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
| The London Lancet. tho leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent a man
to Chicago to investigate. 10 far as 10
could. the slamghtering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with rcvs.
lation that should have called for gov.
ernment investigation, He declared
that the methods employed were most
ulisanltary. That the work was done
In hurried. careless, slipshod 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
10 serious defense was ever made.
Subsequently. there appeared In
Jamestown, N. r., q remarkable book,
"The Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, SUP.
plomenting the charges Of tho Lancet
anu 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 minute
care and the charge was explicitly
made that carelessness reigned every.
where; that imI,0fe Products were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption; that
meat ft only for destruction was ha.
bituaily worked up with spices and
drugs to disguise its taste aud sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array Of spe-
clhc 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 tho soldiers
poisoned by embalned beef, the games
Of gouge aid robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manlp.
ulation of q thousand markets for
profits. tho tribute levied by this com.
blnatlon upon all households In the
country. Let US forget that they are
law-breakers and m0ney'mad and as
sumo that not one Of them would
touch cent Of questionable profits
Still this question stares us In Tho
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 IL made?
How do the trust gentlemen know1
Here 10 q stream OF the most terrible
infection passing daily within Q 6ew
inol,an az tho nations food oupplv.