Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-08-19
BILL" says Chairman Payne. I'VE are


BILL" says Chairman Payne. I'VE are
raising government revenue. We
must not treat this matter from
moral standpoint, but from . busi.
ness standpoint. It seemed to us that,
with a dollar q barrel on the beer
and the tax on the brewers and the
wholesalers and the retailers, and
then the tax on these saloons, which,
in my State, frequently-perhaps not
enerally-amounts to a. much ~
$1,000 a year, this business was taxed
about to It's limit as . tax.producins
business"
And 30 II seems to everybody not
stepped in prejudice.
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Did you ever read the "story of
the Harvester"
II you didn't you certainly have
missed the tale Of fine smooth
trust.
Get busy and get copy.
We have only one ourselves and
the Arabian Nights Entertainment"
Is not in It 40 O nerve sedative.
We reproduce the following from
the esteemed Chicago Tribune.
Washington, d. c., May 20.-The
International Harvester trust 10 to be
attacked by the United States gov.
eminent on the ground that It ID .
combination In unreasonable restraint
Of trade.
Ofacials Of the department Of Jus.
tice have been studying the decision
Of the Supreme court in the Standard
OIL case with q view to its effect upon
the International Harvester and other
prosecutions which Attorney General
wickersham had in contemplation.
The proceeding will be civil and
not criminal In character. The gov
ernment will endeavor to bring about
the company's dissolution In the same
way that IL has succeeded In destroy.
ing the Standard OIL combination. 1t
is expected the suit will be fled In q
federal court In Chicago.
The decision to prosecute the Har'
vester trust 10 the result Of . thor
ough investigation which government
experts have been making for some
time. Herbert Knox Smith, commits.
sioner Of corporations. was instruc'
ted by the senate several years age
to investigate this combination. His
work has been comprehensive and
thorough. He has had access to the
books of the corporation. and its ON
cials have been extremely obliging
The department has not used the data
obtained by MIR. Smiths agents. but
has had its own men In the held.
The International Harvester com
pany has strenuously denied that i
has any of the evil features which
have predominated In such organiza
tions az the Standard OIL. II claiml
that In Its policy It has been actuatet
by sound business principles and tina
It has done nothing which could b
construed ss q violation OF the law.
The information It gave to the con,
missioner of corporations, however
will not be used In its prosecution
The information upon which the de
partment Of justice has considered &C
ton has been secured independent!
and the government consequently 4
relieved from any liability as to It
use or the manner In which It shal
be used. .
The International Harvester con
pany Is one of the great combination
of American capital. Not only does
operate in this country. but 1t ha
plants In Canada, and 1t has q tr'
mendous foreign trade. In its ran
ifications it resembles the Standar
Oil.
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Some st. Louis breweries have
bad record.
That they were engaged In workli
up Sunday closing sentiment In Ci
cago is we'll known fact.
That some saloons run by st. Lou
brewers in Chicago are permitted
run all night Is also we'll know