Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-28
Was Showed Out on the Street with No
Shelter for Herself or
Children.
No Wonder Tom Hoods "Song Of the Shirt
Is Appreciated
Here,
For High City and County officials Sell the
Blood Of the Poor for
GAIN "a,

With the sky above my head,
And the grass beneath MY feet:
For only one short hour,
TO feel as I used to feel,
Before knew the woes Of want,
And the walk that costs meal!
"Oh but for one short hour!
A respite however brief!
No blessed leisure for love or hope.
But only time for grief!
A little weeping would ease my heart
But in their tiny bed
My tears must stop, for every drop
flinders needle and thread!
"With fingers weary and worn,
With eyellds heavy and red,
a woman sat, In unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread.
stitch! Stitch! Stitch!
In poverty, hunger and dirt;
And still with voice of dolorous pitch.
Would that It's tone could reach the
rich!
She sang this Song of the Shirt"
~6A
At last the people Of Chicago are in
q fair way to obtain their rights.
The Infamous Gas Trust will soon
have foe worthy Of Its steel.
When the Trust bought the Infamous
frontage legislation ut Springfield, 1t
shut out oil new gas companies, but 1t
did not shut out the solid and honestly
conducted Ogden Chs Company, which
now proposes to parallel all of the Gas
Trust lines In Chicago.
The Ogden company stands for cheap
gus ana good gas.
AL Of Its customers are satisfied with
It, and that portion Of the city served
by 1t Is the best treated In. the gas line
of any part Of Chicago.
The Ogden company means business.
1t has the money.
It has the machinery.
It has the brains and the ability to
carry out Its projects In every way.
1t will bust the Gas Trust.
The best way to light the Gas Trus,
Is to organize ward clubs to fight II.
In this way public sentiment can be
reused to fever heat, and the bride.
giving scOundrels aud brlbe- taking leg.
islatOrs will be driven from Chicago
forever!
Organise!
Organize for your rights!
Organize against the Gas Trust
which is sapping the life blood out Of
Chicago and which owns its streets BY
virtue of legislative bribery!
The Gas Trust must 60.
When the Sangam0n County grand
Jury takes up the bribery cases against
the Gas Trust and Warehouse people
It will also indlct many legislators fol
perjury on their oath of office.
Although this oath Ia administered to
l63 citizens Of Illinois every two years
It 10 not commonly known that each
Representative not only lifts his right
hand and sOlemnly swears to do bill
duty. etc.. but he also signs his name t.
the oath Of Office which closes with thu
following sweeping Oath.bound prom
ise:
"Nor will ! accept or receive, directly
or Indirectly, any money or other valua
BILE thing from any corporation, com
pany or person for any vote or infiuenc,
] may give Or withhold on any bill, res
olution or appropriation, or for any 9th
er official act"
"Oh, that's only q matter of FORM
explained one Ut the old members to {
new ono who suggested '"rhat's a cast
Iron oath, isn't itf"
@6
When the Sangam0n County Crane
Jury investigates Legislative briber,
It must not forget the Gas Trust agen
who manipulated the deal Of 1897
That deal win not be outlawed for owe
q year yet.
The decent Aldermen are getting no
under the collar.
~
It was . bad day for the people o
Chicago Fhen Andy McNally tele
graphed from California that he wa
going - support HasTison for Mayor.
4 support b. telegraph = q, that u