Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-20

Popular Democratic Candidate
wards bringing on great and bloody
revolution In the United States than
all other agencies combined.
The Beef Trust regulates the price
Of food and laughs Mt the law.
The Beef Trust must 60.
The Beef Trust must 20.
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The number Of members Of the pros
ent Legislature controlled by the Beef
Trust Is known to man.
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The Beef Trust has raised the price
Of shoes by raising the price Of hides.
Governor Douglas Of Massachusetts
Is large manufacturer Of shoes. He
heads delegation Of the Boot and
Shoe Manufacturers to appeal to the
President to remove the duty on hides.
SO that they will DO cheaper. This
country produces moro hides than It
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 In turn
Raises the the price Of shoes.
10 the Beef Trust II becoming the
oppressor Of the poor in the matter Of
food and raiment.
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The Beef Trust has trlumphed In the
councils Of the Republican party ut
Washington. There will be no hostile
legislation this winter. The Presi.
dents message on the subject Of rail.
rOad discrImination--the Beef Trusts
long suIt--was surprisingly weak, com.
Ing from him. All Of which means that
Depew ana the other railroad men
and trust magnates are bOssing the Re
publican policy In Congress. And 1t
means also that the Democrats will
sweep the country next fall from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
Remember the Beef Trust when YOU
are nominating candidates for the
Legislature this year.
Illinois IL not only the headquarters
OF the Beef Trust, hut the people OF
Illinois are Its principal victims.
The Illinois Legislature will either
get after the Beef Trust or the people
will get after the Illinois Legislature.
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The Beef Trust slaughter houses are
like mOrgucs. The Beef Trust mag
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In magazine articles. or course these
slaughter joints are cleanly. They
have to be. They are sanitary In near.
~ every respect. The only unsani-
tary things about the Trust slaughter
houses are the cancerOus cattle, the
tuberculosis cows and the trlchina
hogs. The surroundings have to be
kept cleanly, like all buildings devot-
cd to the care OF cadavers. Even the
embalmed beef turned out by the
Trust Is sanltary-from an embalmers
standpoint.
Many of the Beef Trust employees
wear rubber gloves while handling
the cadavers. Otherwise they are In
imminent danger Of blood poisoning.
Even the embalming OF food for the
.ullible public has its attendant dan
gers.
The number OF dead ana diseased
hogs shipped by the Beef Trust and
sold as food Is something awful.
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Numbers of hogs die in the cars In
transit to the Beef Trust; their bodies
are often eaten by the other hogs and
their pet disease transmitted by them
to the human race.
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The government inspectors IL they
work every minute of their time. can
give but ten seconds to each animal in
spectcd. No wonder cancer, lupus,
tuberculosis and like ailments are
spreading.
The Beef Trust Is commencing to
squlrm. The public is going to get
some startling facts before long. An
opinion given by Attorney General
Stead to the Illinois live stock board
says the board has no right to pass