Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1907-06-29

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sFrom 1886 to 1900 the figures are
missing.
These are samp:e 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 IL to he found
in meat. II Is no longer held to be
possible that cancer or tendency ia
cancer can he inherited. The lnfec
tion is due always to an active ngep'
taken In some way into the SYSTEM
The meat OF cattle afflicted with "lum.
py jaw would he 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.
Aud set there can be no question to
man who desires to live that Is o!
greater Importance than this. Tho op.
erations Of those slaughter houses are
conducted behind closed doors. N0
outsider II 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 fake exhibition Of fake
slaughtering conducted as public
spectacle. That amounts to nothing.
The real work no one ever secs but
the employees.
What becomes of the diseased cat.
tleY Theoretically they are burned and
converted into fertilizer. Who sees
the burning? Who knows that It II
done or how It is done2 Nobody out.
side Of the employees. All we know
In that "lumpy law" Is cancer; that
many cattle have "lumpy jaw;" that
"lumpy Jaw" Ia communicable and that
cancer frightfully increases.
The London Lancet. the leading
medical journal Of Europe. sent a man
to Chicago to Investigate. no far as he
could, the slanghtering processes Of the
trust houses. He returned with reve.
lation that should have called for gov.
ornment investigation. He declared
that the methods employed were most
unsanitary. That the work was done
In a hurried. careless. sllpshod way;
that there was no tolerable 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,
1.-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
care and the charge was explicitly
made that carelessness rcigned every.
where; that impure pr.Iucts were ha.
bitually sent out for consumption: that
meat nt 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-
cifc assertions no answer was ever
made.
Here, then. are two witnesses that
solemnly declare that the conditions In
the trust siaughper houses are exactly
such as would allow tho 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.
Suppose we forget about tho soldiers
poisOEed by embalmed beef, the games
Of gouge ana robbery practiced by the
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 10 forget that they are
law.breakers and mOney-mad and as.
sumo that not ono Of them would
touch a cent Of questionable profits.
Still this question stares us In the
face: How do we know what lmnues
of the ''lumpy jaw" cattlei
How do the trust gentlemen know?
Their employees are employed to
make much money for tho trust gen.
tlemen. How do we know the ways
In which the money 10 nader
How do the trust gentlemen know1
Here 10 stream OF the most terrible
infection passing daily within . fsw
inches Of ths naHon's food supply.