Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1908-01-04
Beef Trust Continues to Fix High and Uniform Prices
for Meat, in Defiance of Permanent Injunction by
Highest Court in the Country. January SO, 1905.
Every Jury Months Has Representatives
Their Employees Among Its Members, and the Health
Tax Departments Are Its Humble Servants.

not be indicted for violating the trust
laws Of Illinois;
The fixing Of assessments 10 that
Armour 4 Company and Swift L Com.
pany escape paying their Just share Of
personal property taxes;
The withdrawal Of city inspectors
from the stock yards, leaving the peo.
pie Of Chicago without adequate pro-
lection to their health;
The relations Of Armour 4 Company
with the Health Department Of the
Harrison and Dunno administratio
Mr.. Meeker, who is a nice gentleman.
Will undoubtedly tell his brother Jurors
oil that he knows about these subjects,
or give them tip as to who can give
them better and more accurate infor.
nation.
So far as the Beef Trust IL con.
cerned, the grand jury can get lot Of
Information already collected and rella.
ble. by applying at the government
building.
The Beef Trust IL doing business at
the old stand and IL fixing and main.
tanning a uniform price for meat in do.
aance Of the Injunction of the United
states Supreme Court. when will the
Trust magnates be sent to fall for this
contempt Of the highest tribunal In the
land?
How long will the United states su-
prcme Court permit the Reef Trust to
| violate It's permanent injunction
against Il? When will the United
States Supreme Court assert its dig
nifty and send the impudent and def
mt Beef Trust magnates to Jail?
Because Of the grip the muitl-mil-
liOnairc tax-tlo,lgers have on tho Board
Of Assessors, the city Of Chicago ID
now facing financial deficit Of $O0O.-
900. The poor man has hnd his taxes
aiscd ana hc must pay them. The
rich tax.dodgcr has had Ills reduced
to ridiculous figure.
The Milk Trust should Ike sent to the
pcnitentiary and the Beef Trust should
be sent to keep It company.
| Under Illinois laws every member
Of the Beef Trust, for conspiracy In re-
straint Of trade and to do an illegal
act, II liable to imprisonment In the
penitentiary for from one to five years
or fine not to exceed $2.OOO. or both.
Indict the Beef Trust and send them
over the road!
The Jury Commission Of Cook coun-
ty persists In putting members and
employees OF the Beef Trust on the
Grand Jurles Of Cook county. In the
opinion Of many people this prevents
the indictment, conviction and impris-
Onment In the Joliet Ienltentlary Of
the wlcketlest trust that ever existed
In violation Of the Antitrust Laws
Of Illinois. But the people will get
these fellows yet. aud In getting them
they will ascertain the motives that
prompted the Jury Commission to ap-
parently become such willing tools Of
this notorious Trust. Small credit ID
due to the Cook county bench, whose
appOlntees the members Of the Jury
Commission are Many Of them must
be aware Of this state Of affairs and
none Of them have ever raised voice
or hand to stop the outrage. A Trust
that raises the price Of food upon the
people and does as 1t pleases with local
officials. may have things Its own way
for awhile. But the wrath Of good
citizens ana the Inevitable fate that
awaits wrOngdOers will Overtake them
| all some day-Beef Trust. officials ana
dupes, and don't you forget 1t!
| 1t Is easy, evidently, to fix Beef
Trust taxes. 1t In hard though to fool
all of the people all OF the time.
We wonder II the fellows who fix the
tax assessments for multimilliOnaires
will ever be indicted?
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Chicago grafters get away VIII
more than San Francisco ever saw.
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The Jury Commission, strange to say
overlooked the Beef Trust In making
IN the December grand jury. 1t was
the only grand jury for months with
out a Beef Trust man on 1t. The re-
suit was the indictment of the MIX
Trust. As the same law applies to
the Reef Trust that was applied tt
the Milk Trust, care was taken thai
It would not happen again, ana Ar
thur Meeker. general manager AM
treasurer for Armour & Company. wht
', was indicted In the United States
court In 1905 for being member OF tn
Beef Trust, ID a leading member OF tht
Cook county grand jury, chosen fol
January.
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II When you pay your wheel tax thin
of Armour, the multi-milliOnalre, wht
, Ia only taxed on 0ne-fifth Of $2OO.OO
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