Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-02-15
BATTLE CRY, BREAD!.
The Antitrust Sentiment in Illinois
Will Make an Issue on This
Food Trust.
Public Policy Demands the Suppression OF
Concerns Which Corner the
Staff OF Life.
Revolutions Have Been Brought on Repeat
eddy by Attempts Of This Nature in
Europe,
And Blood Has Flowed Like Water for Many
Years in Consequence Of Such
Oppression.
The People Of This Country Will Permit No
Interference with Their Sacred
Rights.

one of the lssiiCs In the next l.cgisla
tive campaign will be the Bread Trust
ami the demands of the people of this
state In that particular regard will be
such an amendment of the law as will
nut an end completely To- trusts in bread
strrs.
There could bc 10 more important
issue than this. affecting as II does the
very staff of life. and striking the very
basis of our economic conditions.
First and above all, the great staple
article of food wherever its production
is concerned. forms literally as well as
in the general acceptance of the word
a VITAL question for the common PEG.
pie.
Next ami scarcely second In import
ancc IL the fact that trust In bread
stufrs affects nearly every branch of
agriculture. and as agriculture Is the
foundation of all economic and indus.
trial conditions. 1t follows that 1t af.
rcc.s the entire body polite Of the
country.
For example: II there he Il trust In
bread stuflS, regulating as IL does the
price OF -four. 1t must necessarily affect
the price Of wheat also. And 50 Will,
corn rye and all cereals.
As 1t regulates. and on account Of the
peculiar nature of the operations of all
trusts. restricts the output of the cor.
ncrcd article of food. It has II CORE
spending effect upon all the ingredients
used In the manufactured article. For
instance its operations would he felt In
the price of butter, lard and milk used
In the making of cakes and biscuits
and so on all along the line of agrlcul
tural products.
II will therefore he readily seen that
the rural districts of this State from
one end of 1t To the other viii he most
deeply Interested In anil.brcad trust
legislation by the next General Assem-
bly,.
The Chicago Eagle believes that tho
Democrats of Illinois could not 20 be
fore the voters, not only of Cook Coun
", but of the entire State OF Illinois
with better battle cry in Its next Leg
islatlrc campaign than Down with til,
Bread Trust"
With platform containing II plnnl
pledglHg its candidates to the supper
If IA stringent law against n Brcat
Trust in this State of Illinois, the Dem
Ocratlc party would have good chance
Of carrying the next Legislature an,
clectlng a United States Senator from
the Forty.third General Assembly.
But IL the Democrats desire the benc
fit of such popular issue they mus
adopt II and make IT. their own before
the Republican managers get ahead OF
them.
The Eagle knows whereof 1t speak.
when Il warns the Democratic leaders
OF this State that they must be promp
in this matter
Republican campaign leaders as 4
rule DO not care very much about mon
keylng with trust issues, but It Is a fact
that already they recognize the mper
atlyc necessity Of being right upon This
one.
Republican candidates for both tho
Senate and the House Of Represents
tiyes in the next Legislature will be
trained to meet the popular demand
from the stump ana the platform in til,
next campaign, In regard to the Rrcat
Trust
The working people, the great wage
earning classes Of Chicago, viii vote fOl
the legislative candidates whose pledges
and promises for antl-brcad trust leg
islatIOn are strongest, irrespective o
party.
There have been trusts Of various
kind IN this country, aud the iniurlc
which they have worked 10 the grca
body Of tho people have been exposed
from the rostrum and the platform, bu
there never has been one which has 50
aroused the people from ore end Of thG
country 10 the other as the trust II
food
wherever 1t has begun It's operations
IL Is claimed It's evil effects have bccl
Immediately felt These evils are two
fold; an increase IN the price Of brcal
and falling of In the wages and thu
employment of the working classes.
Nothing could be more dangcrOu
than this. The situation can be sum