"Early To Bed And Early To Rise." "Twenty Years In Hell With The Beef Trust." "Facts, Not Fiction"

ROGER R. SHIEL

Publication: Privately printed, 1909, Indianapolis

First edition. 8vo. Dark gray wrappers, titles stamped in black on the front cover, 288 pp., introduction, preface, illustrated, 3 plates, portraits, index. "There are many important questions before the American people. Two of them touch in some degree all the people. One of these two is the importance of government encouragement to live stock raisers to induce them to improve the grade of their stock, in order, first, to make stock raising more profitable to the breeder, and second, that the people may get the very best that can be produced, especially of the stock utilized for food. The other question is the importance of compelling slaughterers, packers and butchers to be honest and supply to the people as first class only what is first class, and not palm off on them an inferior grade at first class prices. Added to this question is the one of making unlawful any combination between buyers, slaughterers or packers for the forcing of prices upward on the product to the consumer, and downward to the producer." In this book, Roger R. Shiel discusses these topics in an attempt to get government oversight on meat industry. Herd 2059 says "Letters and speeches protesting the monopoly of the beef trust." Herd 2059 calls for a hardcover edition, but this copy bound in wrappers is identical in every respect to the hardcover issue and probably more difficult to locate, although both versions would be considered very scarce today. Tiny chip to top corner of the title page and light wear to the spine ends. else a very good copy housed in a cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine.

Inventory Number: 42116