The Muckrakers Book

	Preface to the Illinios Paperback
	Introduction
Pt. 1	In the Beginning	1
	Concerning Three Articles in This Number of McClure's, and a Coincidence that May Set Us Thinking	4
	The Shame of Minneapolis - Boss rule of a city	6
	The History of the Standard Oil Company: The Oil War of 1872 - How the "Mother of Trusts" operated	22
	The Right to Work - The story of the nonstriking miner, or how union men kept scabs from working	40
Pt. 2	A Name Is Born	55
	The Man with the Muckrake - The President of the United States makes a speech	58
Pt. 3	Behind Political Doors	67
	The Treason of the Senate: Aldrich, the Head of It All - The "millionaires' club." The high point in muckraking	71
	"Uncle Joe" Cannon - Unmasking the "Czar" of the House	87
	Comment About Congress - How is your congressman voting?	99
	The Story of Montana - Personal, commercial and political rivalry convulses a state	104
	Tweed Days in St. Louis - A circuit attorney keeps his campaign promises	122
	The First Ward Ball - "Pickpockets, bartenders, prostitutes, politicians and police captains celebrate the reign of graft."	139
	Can This Be Whitewashed Also? - Land-office investigator touches off a national controversy	150
	Mr. Ballinger and the National Grab Bag - Shall public property be grabbed by monopolists?	158
Pt. 4	Poison - Beware!	175
	The Patent Medicine Conspiracy Against Freedom of the Press - Patent medicine advertisers coerce newspapers into a "hands-off" policy on their merchandise	179
	The Great American Fraud - Fraudulent claims and endorsements of patent medicines	195
	The Jungle - "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."	207
Pt. 5	People in Bondage	213
	The Clash of the Races in a Southern City - Sheds light on a problem	216
	The Racd War in the North - A challenge to the "spirit of the abolitionists."	233
Pt. 6	High Finance	241
	The Rise of the Standard Oil Company - Insight into the manipulation of trusts	245
	Frenzied Finance: (The Story of Amalgamated) - The phrase "the System" is coined as it pertains to stock manipulation and trusts in general	264
	Lawson and His Critics - Questions from his reades erupt into a national exposure of insurance	286
	Railroads on Trial - How railroads make public opinion	300
Pt. 7	The Church	307
	The Tenements of Trinity Church - Does the good done by the charitable enterprises of Trinity Church equal the evil of tenements which help finance them?	311
Pt. 8	Prisons	321
	A Burglar in the Making - Convicts sold to contractors to work out their sentences	325
Pt. 9	Labor	339
	Making Steel and Killing Men - Unnecessary accidents in the steel mills	342
	The Hoe-Man in the Making - Children of the looms	361
	"De Kid Wot Works at Night" - The Newsboy and his newspapers	369
Pt. 10	Vice	385
	The City of Chicago: A Study of the Great Immoralities - The reign of vice and its police protection	389
	The Daughters of the Poor - Immigrant girls caught in the center of the white slave trade	408
	Epilogue	431
	Notes	437
	Bibliography	441