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Show other instance. The embalmed beef that was served to the soldiers In the war with Spain was ONE OP TIIE FIRST DISCLOSURES OF THE METHODS OF OUR MODERN MURDERERS. The young car-barn bandits in Chicago who killed a few men t or jnoney were hunted down and executed. The men who are adulterating drngs and food products, who are managing theaters and steamboats that are death traps, hare their liberty. THEY MOVE IN SOCIETY AND ARE RESPECTED RESPECT-ED IN THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY LIVE. YET WE BELIEVE THEY ARE ,FAR WORSE CRIMINALS THAN THE IGNORANT BANDITS who violate the law in such a crude and nmateurish manner. Think of men deliberately manufacturing drugs that they know are worthless, to be placed on the market in the guise of preparations that are known to be of value in cases like that Df President Mc-Kinley. Mc-Kinley. IS IT NOT MURDER? DO THESE MEN NOT KNOW THAT HUNDREDS OF LIVES MAY DEPEND UPON THOSE DRUGS? Of course they do, but they do not care. They want the money, and they are not content ta make it by honest, legitimate legiti-mate business methods. THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ARE KILLED BY ADULTERATED MILK. The health of thou-sands thou-sands of adults is ruined-by adulterated foods. THE MONEY DERIVED FROM THE MANUFACTURE MANU-FACTURE AND SALE OF SUCH ARTICLES IS BLOOD MONEY. j Blood Money. The-raiding of a number of plants in Chicago where spurious drugs were manufactured, has brought about a disclosure that should shock the country. . j THE ASSERTION IS MADE THAT THE . DEATH OF PRESIDENT , M'KINLEY WAS PROBABLY DUE, IN PART, TO THE USE OF SUCH DRUGS. An assistant postoffice inspector, George G. Kirubalf, is authority for the statement. "When McKinley was first wounded," declared the official, "the physicians hurriedly sent to a drug store for a quantity of aristol, the best knowu substitute substi-tute for iodoform. , "They secured the alleged aristol and applied it to the wound. TnEY NOTICED IMMEDIATELY THAT TIIE EFFECT WAS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OP-POSITE TO THAT WHICH WOULD nAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY ARISTOL, and, after a few moments, changed the treatment. "It was afterward discovered that the stuff whic h the physicians purchased and which they used as aristol whs an imitation, made of fuller's earth and oxide of iron. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE SPURIOUS STUFF WAS PARTLY RESPONSIBLE RESPONSI-BLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT." The disclosure is shocking, of course, but not surprising, in'view of the practices upon which light ' lias been shed within a year. The dreadful disregard of public safety shown . in the conditions that were responsible for the Iroquois Iro-quois horror .and for the Slocura disaster has given flrouud for the belief that SOME MEN WILL-D6 ANYTHING IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY. The i substitution of iron for cork in life-preservers is an- |