Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-10


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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 In.
man cancer infection Is to be found
In meat. II In no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be 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.
py 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 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 Is o.
greater Importance than this. The or.
eratiOns Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider Is allowed to glimpse what
goes Oh there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 90 there and be enter.
tained with q fake exhibition OF fake
Strengthening conducted as a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no ono ever sees but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tie? Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who SEES
the burning? Who knows that It II
done or how 1t IL done? Nobody out.
side OF the employees. All we know
IL that "lumpy law" In cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lumpy Jaw" is communicable and that
cancer frightfully increased.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe, scnt a man
to Chicago to Investigate, 20 far a. 10
could. the Strengthening processes Of tho
trust houses. He returned with revs.
lation that should have called for gov.
eminent investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. 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 indlct.
ment from q great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently. there appeared In
jamestown, n. T.. q 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
a. 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 carelessueas rcigned every.
where; that im.0re prvlucts were ha.
bItualiy sent out for consump ton; that
meat ut only for destruction was la.
bitually worked up with spices and
drugs 70 disguise It, taste and sold to
the public.
TO this extraordinary array Of enc.
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 a.
food.
Suppose that We take Of the matter
the most charitable view possible.
Suppose we assume that the trust gen.
tlemen are most scrupul0us about all
the ways In which they make money.
suppose We forget about the soldiers
pOisossad by embalmed beef. the games
Of gouge aIia robbery practiced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the n,anip-
ulatiOa OF q thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied BY this com.
binatlon upon all households In the
country. Let u forget that they are
law-brsakers and m0ney.mad aud az.
sumo that not one Of them would
touch q cent OF questionable profits.
stu this question starss ~ In the
faes: How do We know what becomes
Of The "lumpy Jaw" cattlsi
How do the trust gentlemen knewf
Their employees are employed 10
make much money Tor the trust Oen.
tlemen. How do w know the vays
In which the money y madsi
How Do the trust Osnt3smsa kneWS
Hees " Q stTsam Of IT, mnst tsssibje
~ ~ pasaAg daily WITHIN Q ~
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