Show THE JUNGLE Mr Sinclair's lr's Story of the Awful Methods of the Beef Packers No more powerful or terrible book has been written In recent years than The Jungle by Upton Sinclair It seems incredible that such depth of human misery as the author relates could be permitted even by the most callous mone money maker or orthe the most soulless corporation or on the other hand that such vileness and filth Inthe in inthe inthe the preparation of human food could be permitted yet most of Mr Sinclair's Sinclair's Sin Sin- clairs clair's statements are from personal knowledge and observation visiting the great packing plants as he did mostly In disguise Moreover his statements have been abundantly corroborated corroborated cor con by President Roosevelt's special commission whose confidential report containing descriptions ns of degradation degradation deg deg- filth and food pollution Is too vile to print In a newspaper The hero of TIlE THE JU JUGGLE GLE Is Jurgis a great shouldered broad-shouldered Lithuanian who gloried In work worl for the mere sake of it ft It even If he had had no Incentive In the far forests of Lithuania where he and his father had lived all aU their lives children of nature Jurgis had heard of free America and that as much as 10 a week was to be earned by a willing laboring man In the great city of Chicago And after many arguments arguments argue ments and much discussion he had prevailed upon his father and Ona the sweet lass to whom he be was betrothed and her mother and several children and relatives to emigrate to splendid America where a man may not always remain a peasant but where ho he has a chance to improve himself himself him him- self and rise In the world Ten dollars I a week was an unheard of ot fortune The peasants of ot Europe make a few cents a day So they all went to and the first day that Jurgis stood in line being altogether the finest specimen of a man In the yards he was beckoned beckon beckon- ed to by the boss and given riven a Job He went homo home Jubilant Two other mem hers bers of the family one a great strapping strapping strapping strap strap- ping woman also got Jobs at once I b and worry the boss sized him t up l fat ff a elance and there was worl himin him in in J and ana On Ona Ih n he had married meantime was about to become become become be be- come a mother Then is recited in THE TIIE JUNGLE a tale of ot gradual and rending heart downfall I in the wearing out by Inches of a strong man Jurgis gets a ajob ob in the terrible fertilizer vaults where his head nearly splits with the poisonous dust dust and the stifling fumes of ammonia His father dies from the effects of the awful speeding up and the slimy wet in which he has to work ankle deep Ona Dna the beautiful the once blithe young bride succumbs s to the hateful System and Jurgis powerful man that he is his strong spirit broken by the brutality and p power of the bosses becomes a great gaunt hollow eyed ghost of his former self The story is a tale of the gradual extermination of a a splendid virile European family ground to death by bya a System by a a pitiless monopoly which cares cares no nomore more or not as much much much- for its workers than it does for the carcasses of the animals it converts Into into into in In- to food Incidentally the description of this process Is sufficiently revolting to turn the stomach of the stoutest beefeater Oh could Jurgis and Ona and the rest of them with their frugality and their brawn and their love of life and work and Joy of a home have gone Into Some rural district to work out their salvation what a different story would have been Tin TIm JU GLE Some other name for the book would have been necessary What If they could have gotten a dozen acres or five acres of good land somewhere and bought it for what they squandered uselessly for their house In they they were turned out and the house resold the first month they failed of payment payment- what a different history woud have been told by bythe the author What if the great packing trust Instead instead instead in In- stead of killing men and women should provide that its could live onan onan on onan an acre of ground each or a half acre out on the great fertile ferUle prairies of Illinois quickly reached from the stock stockyards stockyards yards by a modern trolley so that when they were of necessity perhaps laid oft off for a period of a week weel or six weeks or on half time they would have a piece of rich rick land which they could till and raise enough potatoes and corn and beans and cabbage to keep them from starving to death But the packing trust trust Mr Ogden Armour and other millionaires and multimillionaires multi million aires would aires would make less money It would decrease Its dividends perhaps several per cent and that Is not to bethought bethought be bethought thought of By getting the best out of ofa ofa a man all there is in him in a few short years this unnamable Thing can turn him out and get new blood It ItIs ItIs Itis Is evidently most profitable to speed aman aman a aman man up to the wrecking point and then get new men This process of trafficking in human life liCe coupled with the abominable and poisonous adulterations adulterations and use of diseased animals which Mr Sinclair describes at first firsthand firsthand firsthand hand enables Mr Armour and the others to make very satisfactory percentages percentages per per- centa es of ot profit profit to to pile up of ot dividends a a. year It Is all a a. very great eat story TIFF If It not a a. one and well wen worth the reading simaly that the reader may learn team something about the stuff we eat and at what cost of or suffering suf suf- suffering fering it Is produced r 1 a aJ M ti J S J l' l t J 1 I 1 r V t I i kj 1 1 4 tt p a al l i Jurgis laughed at the discontent everywhere everywhere every every- where manifest They are not men he exclaimed What Meat of the speeding up practice of ot the packers It was but play to him to keep abreast of the fastest He was working to wed Ona They were all cheated shamelessly by the sharks which infest the great packing district they could not speak English and they were at the mercy of these parasites But as new obligations obligations obligations obliga obliga- arose in the buying of a small worthless house sold them by an unscrupulous agent etc etc Jurgis but smiled grimly confident in his strength energy and great love for Ona Dna I will wUl work the harder he says And then came a misfortune Ona a amere amere amere mere bloom of a girl of 17 had to go goto goto goto to work work temporarily Then a younger young young- er child Then Jurgis had bad a fateful day after many months of faithful and herculean service for the great corpora corpora- tion In the melee of a wounded st steer er running amuck he slipped on the bloody floor and sprained his ankle Did the packers give him a short furlough furlough furlough fur fur- lough with pay while he was recovering recoverIng recovering recover recover- ing at least they held his place for him Neither He returned to work not very strong looking through pain 9 n t |