Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-27

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Trust controls these hides.
The Beef Trust raises the price Of
hides.
This raises the price of leather, and
this in turn
Raises the the price of shoes.
So the Beef Trust Is becoming the
oppressor Of the poor In the matter Of
food and raiment.
The Legislature to be elected next
fall must take steps to drive out
The Beef Trust,
The Patent Medicine Trust,
The Life Insurance frauds, and
The manufacturers who oppose the
pure food laws,
II Illinois Is to take her proper place
In the slsterhood Of States.
New York Is showing an example
to the whole country In the vim and
vlgor with which she Is going after
the life insurance frauds.
The developments In this investiga.
ton show the methods that these com.
panics have used I'm the New York
State Legislature, and which they
have. presumably, used in the Illinois
State Legislature.
But where the Insurance crooks
harmed one man, the Beef Trust
harms million men.
The Beef Trust goes into every
mans home and taxes every mouthful
of meat that he eats.
1t starves his family and puts the
necessarics Of life beyond the reach Of
the common people.
1t IL enabled to do this through the
crookeiness Of our legislators, who are
controlled by Beef Trust agents.
The Beef Trust maintains strong
lobby at Springfield and kills oil leg.
islation which II does not like and
looks out for legislation strictly to its
interest.
The people arc forgotten.
But II the people are forgotten, they
do not forget.
They remember the steady influence
Of the Beef Trust ut Springfield and
they also remember that while Mis-.
souri, and other neighboring States are
moving against the gigantic and rob.
bling combines that Illinois In supine.
Cheaper meat and better meat IA
sold to the people Of the Eastern
States than to the people Of Illinois,
because the people Of the Eastern
States will not stand for so much cor
ruption In their State Legislature al
Illinois does.
The Beef Trust Is doing more to
wards bringing on n great ana bloody
revolution In the United States thar
all other agencies combined.
The Beef Trust regulates the price
Of food and laughs ut the law.
The Beef Trust must 80.
The Beef Trust must 90.
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The number OF members Of the pres
ent Legislature controlled by the Bee
Trust Is known to a man.
The Beef Trust has triumphcd In til,
councils OF the Republican party a
Washington. There will be no hostile
legislation this winter. The PresI
: dents message on the subject Of rail
! road observation-disclosures Beef Trust
long suit-was surprisingly weak, com
: Ing from him. All Of which means tina
Depew ana the other railroad me
and trust magnates are bOssing the II,
4 publican policy In Congress. And
means also that the Democrats Wi
sweep the country next fall from til
Atlantic to the Pacific.
d Remember the Beef Trust when 20
), are nominating candidates for til
e Legislature this year.
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Illinois is not only the headIuarter
Of the Beef Trust. hut the people q
Illinois are its principal victims.
The Illinois Legislature will eltht
get after the Beef Trust or the peOpl
Will get uItef tue llllHOls Legislature.
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The Beef Trust slaughter houses al
like morgues. The Beef Trust maj
mates love to praise their cleanlne,
e in magazine articles. or course the,
= slaughter joints are clearly. The
have to be. They are sanitary In nca
ly every respect. The only nnsan
C tary things about the Trust slaughtt
G houses are the generous cattle, III
II tuberculosis cows and the trichin
@ hogs. The surroundings have to D
u kept clearly, like all buildings dcvo
ed to the care of cadavers. Even I'll
cmbalmed beef turned out by Ill
!, Trust Is sanitary-frOm an embalmer
standpoint
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O The Beef Trust Is commencing
!. squirm. The public Is going to 81
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