Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-17


Neither the bullets of the Spaniards
or the terrors of the Cuban climate
did any havoc to the American soldier.
poor boy. ut all comparable with the
damage done by the frightful embalm.
ed food of the Beef Trust.
The young fellows who offered their
lives to the American government, did
not for a moment imagine that the
country for which they were fighting
would permit Beef Trust to furnish
them with poisoned rations.
But it did.
The soldiers trusted their country
and ate the poison.
The result was death. disease, broken
constitutions for thousands.
These are facts which the war rec.
ords will corroboratc.
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The importation of foreign scrfs
who work for wages that no American
could live upon. Is one of the policies
Of the Beef Trust. aud one that IL
attractin. wide spread attention. In
their efforts to break down the high
ideals of Labor. the Trust Is forcing
some of its importatons to adopt haz.
ardous methods of gaining n liveli-
hood. This fact has created condi.
lions that even the novelist IL looking
up. The announcement Is made by
Doubleday. Page X Co. that they will
publish Upton Sinclair's new book.
"rhc Jungle" February IL. It Is the
most startling book written In America
In many years AMI will doubtless ere.
ate II profound SENSATION. "rhc Jun
Gle" i first Of all novel. of real poo
pie of today: hut II Is incidentally n
| searching expose of the horrible living
AMI working conditions In Packing
town. Chicago. from the point of view
of the working man. told with candor
and almost brutal realism.
"Thc Jungle" narrntcs the advcn.
lures of II family of I.itlunnians emf.
grants. which comes 70 America
In search of fortune. AMI shows the
conditions that turn the hero for II
time into II criminal and tramp. So
terrible was the picture painted and
So serious the charges made against
the conditions In the packing trade
that Doubleday, Page 4 Co. sent
cago To make I'M investigation. lie
reported that the book was true In
every essential detail.
Every reader Ia whom the manu-
| script Of "'rhc Jungle" was submitted
agreed that II was IN unforgettablc
book. Some compared 1t to lola, ana
all agreed that II was II remarkable
| human document. Jack London has
| called II "tlc Uncle Toms Cabin of
wage slavery" while David Graham
Phillips has declared 1t "thc greatest
novel published In America In fifty
years" Mr.. Sinclair. who has had Il
most interesting career himself. IL the
wcll-known author Of Manassas" AMI
| prince Hagen
What other political associations be.
sides the Harrison Democracy does
the Beef Trust own in Chicago?
&cA
| Why not let the Beef Trust name the
government beef inspectors ut Chca.
go?
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Why did the State Live Stock
Board wish 10 enjon the city of Chi
cago from destroying tuberculOus and
canccrouS cattle after government and
state inspectors had approved them.
ana after the city inspectors had con.
| dcmned them?
II Mayor DUNES administration de-
stroyed over 3,OOO,OOO pounds of can.
cerous and tubcrculOus meat In five
months, by the inspection work Of
only eleven inspectors. how many bill
lions Of pounds of cancer and tuber.
culosis were fed to the people during
the years that there was no city In.
spcction!
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The Beef Trust is arranging to con.
trol the next Illinois Legislature abso.
lutcly.
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by the way, who did the city hall
collecting from the Ice Trust last
year;
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Hogs that 90 TO England and the
United States are not examined for
trlchna. All hogs for Germany,
France ana Austria are. Some escape,
though.
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by the way, what is DR.. Dyson, who
used Ia he government chief inspector,
doing now;
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The Beef Trust will get its deserts
before many years roll by. The Trust
press cannot hide the truth from the
people, Little by little they will learn
the facts. ana when they do wal ! up,
you will hear an explosion.