Show THE JUNGLE JUGLE mr Sin Sinclair clairs 9 story of the awful methods of the beef packers Packer 5 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 co could uld ile be permitted ei even en by tho the most callous mail money cy maker iti alter or the most lost soulless corporation or on tho the other hand that such vileness ness and filth in the preparation of human food could bo be permitted yet most of mr A sin lairs clairs statements are from personal knowledge and observation visiting tile the great packing plants as lie he did mostly in disguise moreover ills his st statements ate ments have been abundantly corroborated ro by president Roosevel ts commission whoso choso confidential report leport containing descriptions of degradation ra filth and food pollution la is too vile to print in a newspaper tile tho hero here of tim THE JUNGLE is jurgis a reat broad shouldered lithuanian who gloried in work for the more mere salto sake of it even it if ho he had had no incentive in the far forests of lithuania where lie he and his father had lived all their lives children of nature jurgis had heard of free america and that as much ns as 10 a week was to bo be earned by a willing laboring man in the great city of chicago and after many arguments and much discussion he had prevailed upon ili his father and ona tho the sweet lass to whom ho be was betrothed and tier her mother and several children and relatives to emigrate to splendid america where a man may not always remain a peasant but where lie ho has a chance to improve himself and rise in tile the world ten dollars a week was an unheard of fortuno fortune the peasants of europe malie make a few cents a day so they all went to and the first day that jurgle stood in line being altogether the finest specimen of a man in the yards he was waa beckoned to by tho the boss and riven given a job ile he wont went home jubilant two other members of the family one a great strapping woman also got lobs jobs at once and worry the boss sized him up tit at a glance and there was no work for him in Packing town and qua oria whom lie he had married meantime was about to bo be come a mother then Is recited in tile THE JUNGLE a tale of gradual and heartrending heart rending downfall in tho the ft wearing earing out by inches of a strong man jurgis gets a job in the terrible fertilizer vaults where ills his head nearly splits with tho the poisonous dust and the stifling fumes of 0 ammonia ills father dies from tho effects of the awful speeding up and tho the olim slimy 1 wet in which he has to work ankle ank 1 deep ona the beautiful the once oni e blithe bride s to tile hateful system and jurgis powerful nian niall that he be 19 I 1 lila ills strong spirit broken by the brutality mid and power of thoi the bosses becomes a great gaunt hollow eyed ghost of ills his former self the story is a tale of the gradual extermination of a splendid virile european family ground to death by a system by a pitiless monopoly which cares no more or not as much for its workers corkers than it does for the carcasses of tho the animals it converts into food incidentally the description of this process la Is sufficiently revolting to turn the stomach of tho the stoutest beefeater leefeaver leef eater oh could jurgis arid and ona and tho the rest of them with their frugality and their brun brawn and their love of life and work and joy of a home have haie gone into some rural district to york voik out their salvation what a different store stor would have been tur ausan some other naine for the book would have been necessary what it 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 hoi elwise so in they were turned out and the house resold the first month they failed of payment chrit a different history woud have hae boon been loicl by the author whit what if tho the groat great packing trust in stead of 1 lulng men and women should provide that its employed emp loyes could live on nn an acre of ground each or a half acre out on the great fertile prairies of quickly reached fron from fro n the stock yards by li a modern trolley FO that when they wore were of necessity perhaps ilala laid on off for a oI of a week or six weeks or on halt hair time they would have a piece of rich land which they could till and raise enough potatoes and corn and beans and cabbage to keep heep them fron starving to death dut but the packing trust mr ogden armour and other millionaires and multimillion multi million alres matild matte make less money it would decrease ILe rease its dividends perhaps several beveral per cent and that Is not to bo be thought of by getting tile the best out of a min man all there Is in him in a few short vears rh this unnamable namable nn thing can turn him out and get new blood it Is evidently most profit profitable ablo to speed a man up to tho the wrecking point and then pet get new men this process of trafficking in human life coupled with the abominable and poisonous adultery adul tera tiong and use of di diseased sensed animals which mr sinclair describes at first hand enables mr tr armour anil and the others to male make very nor con contakes cent tares ners of profit to pile up millions of divid dividends erds a year it la is all a very great creat story it if not a beautiful one rind well worth the reading that chrit 06 render may learn sortie something thing abaft the ina wo we pat eat and at what cost coat of suf fering ferine it Is 13 produced 4 jurgil laughed at the discontent everywhere manifest they aro are not me men he exclaimed what of the tha speeding up tit practice of the packers it was but play to him to keep keel abreast of tile the fastest ile he was working to wed qua ona they were all cheated shamelessly by tho the sharks which infest the great packing district they could not speak E anglish and they were at the mercy of these parasites but its as new obligations arose in the buying of a small worthless house sold them by an unscrupulous agent etc etc jurgis but smiled grimly couil confident dent in his strength energy and great lovo love for ona 1 I will work tho the harder ho he says and then came a misfortune ona a moro more bloom ot of a girl of 17 had to go to work temporarily then a younger child then jurgis had a fateful day after many months of faithful and herculean service for tho the great corporation in the meleo mccoo of a wounded steer running amuck lie ho slipped on tile the bloody floor and sprained ills his ankle dirt did the packers give him a short furlough with pay while lie ho was recovering at least they held its his for him neither ife he returned to work not very strong looking through pain |