Early to Bed and Early to Rise, Twenty Years in Hell With the Beef Trust: Fats
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2024
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Print on Demand. This book presents an expose of the meatpacking industry and the rise and tactics of the Beef Trust from the perspective of the author who spent over 40 years as a cattle and hog broker, most of it dealing directly with the meatpacking giants of the time. The author reveals the massive fraud in the meat industry and how the Beef Trust used its power to become a dominating force in national politics as well as the food industry. This book, originally self-published in part, was written in the early 20th century, when the meatpacking industry was at its height of corruption and influence over the federal government. The author, as a direct insider within the industry, provides a thorough examination of the tactics used by the Beef Trust, and reveals the political and financial power at its disposal, allowing the reader to understand how the public interest can be subverted by special interests. By providing this historical account of the Beef Trust, this book provides valuable insights on the complex relationship between big business and government during the Gilded Age. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.…
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- Title
- Early to Bed and Early to Rise, Twenty Years in Hell With the Beef Trust: Fats
- Author
- Roger R. Shiel
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- print-on-demand item
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1334078408
- ISBN 13
- 9781334078408
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All his life Mr. Shiel has been a sterling and loyal son of the Roman Catholic church, but has never been a bigot. His heart and his purse have always been open to every deserving object, and there has not, possibly, been a church of any denomination built in Indianapolis during his more than forty years' residence in that city, to which he has not liberally contributed. Every hospital, every charitable, benevolent or educational institution has found a liberal friend in him. Very recently he gave to the Y. M.
C. A. Of Indianapolis, and several hundred dollars to the Y. W. C. A. Of the same city, and to Butler University.
I mention these things not in the way of boasting of what Mr. Shiel has done, or of the friendship felt for him by many of the great men of the nation. But simply to show the readers of this little book that his statements are worthy of credence and may be accepted by them as true. So far as a very busy life would permit he has been a close student of economics, and his studies have led him to the conclusion that the welfare of the country depends upon the welfare of the producer and the honesty of those who supply the people with their food products. Hence he has always fearlessly exposed the wrong doings of the packers, and the oppressions of the Beef Trust that have made those wrong doings possible. He is always earnest, always ardent, always hopeful, and fully believes the time will come when the strong hand of the government will crush out all trusts operated in the constraint of trade and give all the peo ple an equal chance.
I have known Mr. Shiel practically all his life, having been born in the same county, and served in the army with him. For thirty years I have known him intimately, and have had personal knowledge of his fight against the Beef Trust, and of his untiring efforts to promote the breeding of the highest grade of stock by the farmers of the West, and of the proportions to which his business had grown from his first little venture of eight head of cattle at Strawtown. I write this introduction to his little book to bear willing testimony to his worth as I have known it.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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