Show MISSED n TIlE THE POINT S pry My book hu has be bern n a failure The TheS S public has missed the thc point In these words Upton Sinclair author of or The Thc Jungle perhaps tho the most famous Camous I. I hook book of tho the pa past t ten years writes his own severest review w But nut But the man Is right The Jungle I t told l of r conditions In tho the packing house district at Chicago and told o of them themas I. I as they arc aie The expose startled the 1 nation nallon In fact act ten c days us u's after fter tho the look yas was made mado public tho the substance of its charges against the l Improper system of oC preparing tho thio food supply was telegraphed all o over the world t a and d England and Germany were wild i with Ith excitement as to tile the deception that had been practiced In by packers rs In the marl marketing eUng of or unclean cc- cc meaL meat I That Th lh t l view 7 of or the thc book that phase t Jr o of the thc expose was what we all talked f about People get Interested when ii you tell teU them they ha have c been eating Kit i l 1 meat from diseased animals One t. t could easily have built a riot against t tho tiu o. o pac packers es e.'s and even congress congress felt elt the Uk mandate of or an offended public and expressed that mandate in legis legis- lation I And nd yet diseased meat mente foul handling handling hand hand- ling hug conditions In the thu slaughter houses these houses these o are aro not the tle I grievances against which Mr 11 Sinclair 1 preached These Thebe do not form the of- of S sought Bought to be corrected by The Tho Jungle It is 15 pretty bad had to know that thata r f a u. steer that has died on the train is slipped past the thc inspectors and conI converted converted con con- I Into prime beef bee for tor the tables of or the careful But it ia is worse to know that tho the moral standards of Ona and Marija Women men o of the tho packinghouse pack- pack In ing house population have been deba debased de de- de- de ba based based and ed-antl ed and that their new code Is the thu code of ot tho the thou thousands who get their living at the hands of ot the packers packer It Is pretty bad to know knew that rat rats ratI i A I killed b by poison polson lie III In a heap not heal not too care carefully full separated from Crom tho the heaps of or meat meat on on the thc floor floo of till the cooling room but It Is worse to know Imo that Ona ana bought the goo good will of ot the thc lie manager man man- ager agel of her department and antl the thc permanence permanence per per- of her husbands husband's position at atthe the thc expense o of or her chastity and and came cameto to argue uc that that'll It was tho the proper thing to 0 do It Is pretty tt bad to think of men suffering from consumption working and expectorating about the thc rooms while preparing meat fo for or market mallet but butt It t Is Infinitely worse to hear Ilear 11 Marlin a from rom roni the thC pulpit of a brothel state statu without a 0 pang that her original and Im Im- Im- Im views on were silly and pos possible He who reads Tho Jungle with a purpose will viii not rise In III rage c at the story tor of unclean meats but will how bow his head In ill grief and imo sh that the thc despot rule of the tho yards makes hon hon- and antl virtue an nn unattainable dream that neither men nor women can live at all In accordance with the thc rules of or right It Is the Imperious heating beating down don own f eve every instinct of purity the thc utter undermining of every elY foundation of character that will iIi linger cr in Iii the thc mind and sit in sorrow on the soul rile Tho story ston has stripped nh all pretense c from the thc commercial side of bu business In But It has haf with an nn even more noro masterful hand lifted the thc curtain behind which a startling teni of or life Is being heIng- lived lI h by thousands thousands an ands s of or men and women and chill chil dren Out of that environment en go o the youth routh of both hoth sexes with their vicious standards of life life to to a far greater inJury in- in Jury Jur ury than tImid unclean meats meJls can enn ever carry carr Wherever hee the they go In the thc world there will linger hIlger the false ethics which tell you OU you OU are a fool to maintain your virtue at the thc expense of or your our comfort They will see sec no rea reason on why a i man or a wo woman an should be hun hungry ry If the thc means of getting food e exist exist exist- an any wa way True it is not a new stor story tile the they will ill carr carry to the commercial code But It Is the thc more pitiful be because because be- be cause it Is the expression In their lives of oC a theory which can not bo be es- es And nd aside from loin that aside from flom the thc peril perU of that emanation from froni the lie InIquitous in iniquitous In- In moral atmosphere o of the thc jungle is it not pitiful Is It not apal- apal hing that there should e exist in this Christian country countr a n community so 0 lost host to hope so mercilessly sl strangled Into vice It was as for fOlo this that Mr Sinclair's story tor was written and ami the book will ihl tail fall Indeed If Jr the country countr shall pass with indifference the lie rev revelation of or depravity depravity de tle- de- de which conditions at Packing Packing- town have ha made Inescapable Is there thereIn In all the world a field for tor missionary effort so o vehement In its Macedonian cr cry as is that revealed b by tiThe The Jungle |