Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-05-04

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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 he found
In meat. It IL no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency to
cancer can be inherited. The infec.
ton Is due always to nm active agent
taken In some way into the system.
The meat of cattle afflicted with "luin.
~ 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 them?
I don't know; you don't know: no.
body knows outside Of the precincts Of
the slaughter houses.
And vet there can be no question to
a man who desires to live that Ii Of
greater importance than this. The or.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. No
outsider In 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.
tained with q fake exhibition Of fako
slaughtcrlng conducted ~ a public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
Tho 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 burning? Who knows that It In
done or how II Ia done? Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
Is that "lumpy law" is cancer: that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw" that
"lunipy jaw" IL communicable and that
cancer frlghtfully increases.
The London Lancet, the leading
medical journal Of Europe, sent man
to Chicago to Investigate. 10 far as 10
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 q hurried, careless. siipshod way;
that there was no t0lerable inspection
or sanitary supervision; that the health
Of the world was menaced by those
conditions. To this scathing lndict.
ment from great medical authority
no serious defense was ever made.
subsequently, there appeared In
jamestown, N. Y, remarkable book,
"The Dark Side Of tho Beef Trust"
apparently written by an expert, SUP.
plementlng 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 im.,drc prouucts were ha.
bltually sent out for consumption; that
meat tit only for destruction was ha.
bitually worked up with spices ana
drugs 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 as |
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.
we forget about the soldiers
poisoned by embalmed beef. the games
Df gOuge a,;a robbery practlced by the
trust refrigerator car lines, the manlp.
nlatiOn of thousand markets for
profits, the tribute levied by this com.
binatlon upon all households In the
Let us forget that they are
aw-breakers and m0ney-mad and as.
sume that not one of them would
'ouch a cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares US In the
ACE: How do we know what becomes
If the "lumpy jaw" cattle2
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for tho trust gen.
lemen. How do we know the ways
n which the money 10 made?
How do the trust gentlemen know3
Here 10 q stream Of the most terrible
Infection passing daily within Q fsw
uChoO OF the nations food oupDly.