Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10
Beef Trust Patrons Have a Chance to
Get All They Want
Of Il.
The Real Cause of the Disease Is
Bad Meat Beyond
Doubt.

and by the poisons used In the makeup
Of their Beef Trust rations.
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.
cd food Of the Beef Trust.
The young fellows who offered their
lives to the American government, did
not for q moment imagine that the
country for which they were fighting
would permit a Beef Trust to furnish
them with poisoned ratlons.
But Il 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 corroborate.
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The importation of foreign serfs
who work for wages that no American
could live upon, Ii one Of the policies
Of the Beef Trust, aud one that IL
attracting wide spread attention. In
their efforts to break down the high
Ideals Of Labor, the Trust ID forcing
some Of Its importations to adopt hax-
ardous methods Of gaining a liveli-
hood. This fact has created condi-
lions that even the novelist IL looking
up. The announcement Ii made by
Doubleday, Page 4 Co. that they will
publish Upton sinclair's new book.
'The Jungle" February 10. It IL tho
most startling book written in America
In many years and will doubtless Gre
ate a profound sensation. 1.-THE Jun.
gle" Ii first Of all novel, Of real peo-
pie Of today; but II IL incidentally q
searching expose Of the horrible living
and working conditions In Packing
town, Chicago. from the point Of view
Of the working man, told with candor
and almost brutal realism.
1.-THE Jungle" narrates the adven-
lures Of family Of Lithuanians emil
grants, which comes 70 America
In search Of fortune. and shows the
conditions that turn tho hero for o
time Into criminal and q tramp. 80
terrible was the picture painted and
10 serious the charges made against
the conditions In the packing trade
that Doubleday. Page 4 Co. sent a
well.kn0wn New York lawyer to Chi
cago to make an investigation. He
reported that the book was true In
every essential detail.
Every reader to whom the manu-.
script Of 1.-THE Jungle" was submitted
agreed that It was an unfOrgettable
book. Some compared It to lola, and
all agreed that It was u remarkable
human document. Jack London has
called It 1.-THE Uncle Toms Cabin Of
wage slavery" while David Graham,
Phillips has declared It 1.-THE greatest
novel published in America in hfty
years." Mr.. Sinclair. who has had
most interesting career himself, 10 the
well.known author Of Manassas" and
"PrInce Hagen"
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What other political associations be.
sides the Harrison Democracy dOea
the Beef Trust own In Chicag0Y
Why not let the Beef Trust name the
government beef inspectors ut Chica.
GOT
| Why did the State Live Stock
Board wish to enjOln the city of Chi.
cagO from destroying tuberculous and
cancerous cattle after government ana
State inspectors had approved them,
ana after the city inspectors had con.
demned them?
II Mayor DUNES administration de-
strOyed over 100000 pounds of can.
cerOus ana tuberculOus 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,
spectiOn?
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The Beef Trust 10 arranging to con-,
troll the next Illinois Legislature abso.,
lutely.
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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 20 to England and the
United States are not examined for.
trichina. All hogs for Germany,
France and Austria are. Some escape.
though.
BY the way, what IL DR.. Dyson, who.
used to be 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 win learn
the facts, and when they do vale up.
you will hear an explosion.
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Stop the Tuberculosis TRUST
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