Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — BIG PACKERS INDICTED. [ARTICLE]

BIG PACKERS INDICTED.

Ten Packers Accused Individually as Heads of Big Combine. The federal grand jury at Chicago Monday returned indictments against ten of Chicago’s “leading citizens,” officials- and directors of the National Packing Co., charging conspiracy, monopolization and restraint oLtrade in bills of seven counts each. This huge combination controls absolutely the meat industry of this country, robbing, alike both the producer and consumer. The charges made in the indictments are: 1. That the defendants have engaged in a combination in restraint of trade in fresh meats; 2. That the defendants have engaged in a conspiracy in restraint of trade; 3. That the defendants have monopolized the trade in fresh meats by unlawful means.

This sounds something like' what the democrats have told the people for years was going on, and we are glad that some of them are beginning to get their eyes opened at last. It is to be hoped, however, that the government will be more successful in prosecuting this trust than it was with the Standard Oil combination.