Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-03
L Aims at the Lives, the Health and
the Pockets Of Chicago
Citizens.
Frightful Food Thrown Into This
City While the Government In
spectors Sit Supinely BY.

shoe Manufacturers to appeal to the
President to remove the duty on hides.
so that they will be cheaper. This
produces more hides than 1t
needs to shoe its people: but the Beef
Trust controls these hides.
The Beef Trust raises the price Of
hides.
This raises the price Of leather. and
this i'm 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.
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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 sisterhood Of States.
New York IL showing an example
to the whole country In the vim and
vigor with which she IL going after
the life insurance frauds.
The developments in this investiga.
ton show the methods that these com.
panies have used in 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 a million men.
The Beef Trust goes into every
mans home and taxes every ,nouthfu,
Of meat that he eats.
It starves his family and puts the
necessaries Of life beyond the reach Of
the common people.
It 10 enabled to do this through the
crookedness Of our legislators, who are
controlled by Beef Trust agents.
The Beef Trust maintains q strong
lobby at Springfield and kills all leg.
islation which It does not like and
looks out for legislation strictly to Ia
interest.
The people are forgotten.
But II the people are forgotten. they
do not forget.
They remember the steady influence
Of the Beef Trust at Springfield and
they also remember that while Mis-
souri, and other neighboring States an
moving against the gigantic and rob
bling combines that Illinois 10 supine.
Cheaper meat and better meat Il
sold to the people Of the Easter
States than to the people Of Illinois
because the people Of the Eastern
States will not stand for 20 much cor
ruption In their State Legislature q
Illinois does.
The Beef Trust 10 doing more to
wards bringing on q great and bloody
revolution In the United States thar
all other agencies combined.
The Beef Trust regulates the pric,
Of food and laughs at the law.
The Beef Trust must 60.
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The Beef Trust must 60.
The number of members Of the pres
ent Legislature controlled by the Bee
Trust Is known to a man.
The Reef Trust has triumphed In tn,
councils OF the Republican party a
Washington. There will be no hostile
legislation this winter. The Presl
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 and the other railroad mel
and trust magnates are bOsslng the Ro
publican policy In Congress. And
means also that the Democrats viii
sweep the country next fall from til
Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Remember the Beef Trust when yo
are nominating candidates for tn
Legislature this year.
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Illinois Is not only the headquarters
Of the Beef Trust. hut the people O
Illinois are its principal victims.
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The Illinois Legislature will eithe
get after the Reef Trust or the peopl
will get after the Illinois Legislature.
The Beef Trust slaughter houses ar
like morgues. The Beef Trust mas
mates love to praise their cleanliness
in magazine articles. OF course thes
slaughter joints are cleanly. The
have TO be. They are sanitary in neal
~ every respect, The only unsan
tary things about the Trust slaughtc
houses are the cancerous cattle, tn
tuberculosis cows and the trlchln
hogs The surroundings have to b
kept clearly, like all buildings devo'
ed 10 the care of cadayers. Even tn
embalmed beef turned out by tn
Trust is sanltary--from an embalmer'
standpoint.
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The Beef Trust Is commencing +
squIrm. The public il going to &c
some startling facts before long. Al