Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-03
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 polsons 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 oil comparable with the
damage done by the frlghtful embalm.
Ell 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 Beef Trust to furnish
them with poisoned rations.
But II 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. is one Of the policies
Of the Reef Trust, and one that il
attracting wide spread attention. In
their efforts to break down the high
Ideals Of Labor. the Trust Is forcing
some Of Its importatlons to adopt hax.
artlOus methods Of gaining llveli.
hood. This fact has created condi.
lions TINT even the novelist Is looking
up. The announcement Is made by
Doubleday. Page 4 Co. that they will
publish Upton Slnclair's new book.
"The Jungle" February -. It IL the
most startling book written In America
In many years and will doubtless ere
ate profound sensation. ".rhe Jun.
gle" Ii first Of all a novel. Of real PEG.
pie Of today; but II II incidentally a
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.
'"rhc Jungle nnrrates the. advcn.
lures Of family Of LItliuanians emil
grants, which comes 20 America
In search Of fortune. and shows the
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time Into a criminal and tramp. so
terrible was the picture painted ana
no serious the charges made against
the conditions In the packing trade
that Doubleday, Page 4 Co. sent a
well.known New York lawyer to Chi.
cago to make IN investigation. lie
reported that the book was true In
every essential detail.
Every reader to whom the manu-.
script Of "The Jungle" was submitted
agreed that 1t was IN unfOrgettable
book. Some compared It to lola, and
all agreed that It was Il remarkable
human document. Jack London has
called It "the Uncle Toms Cabin Of
wage slavery" while David Graham
Phillips has declared It "the greatest
novel published In America In fifty
years." Mr.. Sinclair, who has had
most interesting career himself, Is the
well.known author Of MANASSAS" and
"PrIncc Hagen"
| What other political associations be.
sides the Harrison Democracy does
the Beef Trust own In Chicago?
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Why not let the Beef Trust name the
government beef inspectors ut Chlca.
go?
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Why did the State Live Stock
Board wish to enjOln the city of Chi
cago from destroying tuberculous and
cancerous cattle after government and
State inspectors had approved them,
and after the city inspectors had con-
demned them?
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II Mayor DUNES administration de-
stroyed over 3.OOOOOO pounds OF can,
cerOus and tuberculOus meat In five
months, by the inspection work OF
only eleven inspectors, how many bill
lions of pounds of cancer and tuber'
culOsls We're fed to tho people during
the years that there was no city In
spectiOn?
The Beef Trust Is arranging to con
troll the next Illinois Legislature absO
lutely.
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by the way, who did the city hal
collecting from the Ice Trust las
year!
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Hogs that go to England and thu
United States are not examined fol
trlchina. All hogs for Germany
France and Austria are. Some escape
though.
i BY the way, what Is DR. Dyson, whit
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 Truss
press cannot hide the truth from thu
people. Little by little they will learI
the facts. and when they do wake up
you will hear an explosion.
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y Stop the Tuberculosis Trust!