Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-10
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
country 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 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.
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The Legislature to be elected next
fail 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 il to take her proper place
In the sisterhood Of States.
New York Is 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 mouthful
Of meat that he eats.
1t starves his family and puts the
necessaries Of life beyond the reach Of
the common people.
It IL enabled to do this through the
crookedness Of our legislators, who are
controlled by Beef Trust agents.
The Beef Trust maintains strong
lobby at Springfield and kills all leg.
islatlon which II does not like and
looks out for legislation strictly to its
interest.
The people are 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 10 supine.
Cheaper meat and better meat ID
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 80 much cor
ruption In their State Legislature ID
Illinois does.
The Beef Trust IL doing more TO-
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 at the law.
The Beef Trust must 20.
The Beef Trust must 20.
The number OF members of the pres
ent Legislature controlled by the Beef
Trust Is known to man.
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The Beef Trust has trlumphed In the
councils OF the Republican party a,
Washington. There will be no hostile
1 tel sa,tn nha
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 Re
publican policy In Congress. And 1
means also that the Democrats vii
sweep the country next fall from thu
Atlantic to the Pacific.
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Remember the Beef Trust when 20,
are nominating candidates for tn
Legislature this year.
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| Illinois Is not only the headquarter
OF the Beef Trust, hut the people o
Illinois are its principal victims.
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The Illinois Legislature will elthe
get after the Beef Trust or the peOpl
will get after the Illinois Legislature.
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The Reef Trust slaughter houses ar,
like mOrgues. The Beef Trust mag
mates love to praise their cleanliness
In magazine articles. OF course thes,
slaughter joints are clearly. The!
have to be. They are sanitary In near
~ every respect. The only unsanl
tary things about the Trust slaughte
houses are the cancerOus cattle, tn,
tuberculosis cows and the trichini
hogs. The surroundings have to b,
kept clearly, like all buildings devOt
ed to the care OF cadavers. Even tn,
embalmed beef turned out by the
Trust Is sanltary-frOm an embalmer',
standpoint.
The Beef Trust Is commencing Il
squlrm. The public Is going to ge
some startling facts before long. Al