Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-02


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missing.
These are sample pages from the
dreadful records. The trend Of metlI.
cal investigation has been toward the
conclusion that the origin Of the hu.
man cancer infection IL to be found
In meat. Il II no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec-
tlon Is due always to an active agent
tnken In some way into the system.
The meat Of cattle afliicted with "lum.
py jaw" would be such an agent.
There come to the slaughter houses
Of the trust, week by week, many cut.
tie afflicted with ''lumpy Jaw" What
becomes Of themf
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
q 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 10 allowed to glimpse what
goes on there. No representative Of
the public ever gets behind that cur.
tain. You can 80 there and bs enter.
tainsd with . fake exhibition Of fako
slaughterins conducted - Q public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever sess but
the employees.
What becomes Of the diseased cat.
tiei Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertiliser. Who sees
the burning? Who knows that Il Il
done or how Il 10 donei Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All We know
is that "lumpy law" 10 cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy Jaw" that
''iumpy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical Journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to investigate. 20 far ~ he
could, the slaWghtering 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 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 scathing indict.
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently, there appeared In
jamestown, N. Y, q remarkable book,
"rhe Dark Side Of the Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, sup.
plemcntlng 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 reigned every.
where; that i'm vufe prviucts were ha.
bitually sent out for c0nsumpt tlon: that
meat at only for destruction was In.
bitually worked up with spices and
druss 70 disguise its taste and sold to
the public.
10 this extraordinary array OF sps.
cifc 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 40 would allow the meat OF
"lumpy Jaw" cattle to b 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
pOls0rsd by embalmed beet. the games
Of gouge aud robbery practiced BY the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manip.
uiation Of q thousand markets for
profits. the tribute levied BY this com.
bination upon all households In the
country. Let 10 forget that they are
law.breakers and money.mad and %.
sumo that not one Of them would
touch q cent Of questionable profits.
still this question starss 20 In the
face: How do We know what becomes
Of the "lumpy jaw" cattlsi
How do the trust gentlemen knowi
Their employees are employed to
make much money for the trust gen.
tlemen. How do We know the ways
In which the money 10 madsi
How do the trust gsntlsmsa know1
Here 10 Q stream Of the most tsrrible
infA ton passing daily within Q tsw
tsshaa q n nauou's food s1pUlv.