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Show Newspaper dispatches from Bloom-ington, Bloom-ington, Ills., say that 2,000 men employed em-ployed in the shops of the Chicago & Alton railway have resolved to eat no meat during the next thirty 'days. This oath of abstinence is the result, not of any sentimental or hygienic aversion to animal food, but of a rooted antipathy to high prices, especially when believed be-lieved to be enforced by a trust. It is hoped that other workingmen in other towns and cities wilt follow the example ex-ample set them by the workingmen of Bloomington and that when the trust finds that it cannot get rid of its meat at the present prices it will see us way more clearly to a reduction. In other words, the principle involved is precisely pre-cisely that w hich made so much stir in Boston a number of years ago when the East India company was trying to persuade the Americans to drink tea. It will be remembered that at that time in Boston and also in other colonial co-lonial towns men resolved that they would leave tea alone forever rather than submit to the tax which the tea implied. The people of Bloomington seem to be animated by a similar spirit and the "beef trust" will understand just how the East India company felt in 1773. |
