Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-06

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wall. Amsterdam Dietrich & Co.. 80
and % Montague de Ia Cour. Brus.
sells; \. Abraham. 81 Orangcplen. Tho
Hague: NJ. +. Braunfcldt. Copenha-
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Bailey. .Baillicre. Madrid; Fcilberg h
Landmark, Christiana: +. Greavc 4
Co.. Bucharest; Lorenz 4 Keil. Con.
stantinople: Laembcrt 4 Co.. Buenos
Ayres: G. Kirsingcr & Co.. Valpnr.
also: A. Wagner X Levien. city Oh
Mexico; +. Hog,nan. Alexandria: A.
Ahcrns h Co.. Yokohama B. Schots'
Sons. Sidney; Rhyder's. Eighth ave.
nue South, Guatemala.
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Reef Trusts and other Corporations
that are crooked or that want much
from the Legislature without letting the
people get on to the fact; and patent
medicine trusts that IRE afraid the
people will learn that they are selling
pOisOns have discovered new way Of
controlling public opinion without
showing their own hand. They do
their business through professional
advertising agents, who claim to DO
able to handle the daily and country
press. In turn the advertising agents
put In large ads. for the Beef Trust,
the Medicine Trust or some other trust
rs the case may be. always stipulatIng
In their contracts that all contracts
for advertising are void II the State
Legislature passes any law inimlcal to
the Beef Trust, Medicine Trust. That
Is about as comprehensive, as frank.
~ impldent q scheme OF controlling
legislation as 1t is possible to imag-
Inc. And so the Patent Medl.
cine Trust Of America, for one.
maintains a lawyer In Chicago, ana a
permanent secretary, office and stan.
In every State capital In the United
States 1t maintains an agent whose
business 1t Is to witch during the ses.
sion OF the Legislature each days
batch Of new bills. and whenever q
bill affecting patent medicines shows
Its head to telegraph the bill, YER.
batim. to headquarters. There some
scores Of printed copies Of the bill are
made, and copy II sent to every
member Of the association. ThereupOn
each manufacturer looks up the list OF
papers In the threatened State with
which he has the contracts described
above. And to each newspaper he
sends peremptory telegram calling
the publishers attention to the OblIga'
tions Of his contract, and commanding
him to 90 to work to defeat the anti
patent.medicin bill. In practice. this
organization works with smooth per-
fectiOn and well.Oiled accuracy to de-
feat the public health legislation
which is introduced by boards OF
henlth In over score Of States every
year.
Watch the daily newspapers when
ever trust IL being assalled and SGT
how the advertising columns are load
cd with glaring calls to partake OF
wonderful delicacies.
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The Reef Trust has caused a BIZ
raise In the price Of shoes. The al
legged beef trust controls incidentally
the domestic hide market, which Con
gress closed practically for the benef
of the beef trust by clapping duty O
l5 per cent ad valOrem on foreign
hides. The alleged beef trust, accord
ing to Associated Press dispatches
now also controls the domestic tanning
industry. Hence the beef trust fiXe'
now the cost of the leather, the raw
material out of which shoes are made
and hence IL controls both the prices
of shoes In the domestic market ant
In the export shoe trade, built up a
great expense by our shoe manufac
turers.
Furthermore, 1t Is common knOwl
edge that the domestic price of butter
eggs, butterine, dressed poultry. thu
grains, fruits, vegetables, apples, pota
toes ana probably other foods Is regu
lated largely by the same trust of cor
pOratiOns.
This is logical and unavoidable N
present. 1t Is due In part to specla
privileges of lower rates In the snip
ping. private refrigerator lines. I'm
! mense grain elevators and cOld-storagt