The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1906-07-20

and worry. the boss sized him up AZ a
glance and there vas no work for him
In PackingtoWn. and Ona, whom he had
married meantime vas about 70 be
come . mother.
Of gradual and heart-rending Downfall
In the wearing out by inches, Of a
strong man. Jurgls gets a job In the
terrible fertilizer vaults where his head
nearly splits with the poisonous dust
and the sliding fumes OF ammonia.
His father dies from the effects Of the
awful speeding up and the Shiny
vet In which he has 20 work. ankle
deep. 0na. the beautiful. the once
blitle young bride succum-s a. the
hateful System" and Jurgis. powerful
man that lie u. his strong spirit broken
10y the brutality and Irresistible power
% the bosses. becOmes a great Eaunt
hollow eyed ghost Of his former self
The story Is 4 tale Of the gradual
CxteTmlnatiOn Of a splendid. virile
European family. ground TO death by
a System" by q pitiless monopoly.
which cares no more or not as much
for It's workers than Il dOcs for the
carcasses % the animals u converts In
20 food. Incidentally the description
Of this process Is sufficiently revolving
20 turn the stomach Of the stoutest
beefeater.
Oh. could Jurgis, and Ona. and the
rest % them, with their frugality and
their bravn. and their love Of life and
work. and Joy % a home. have gone
| into some rural district 10 work out
their salvation. what a diaerent story
would have been TIN JUNGLE Some
other narne for the book would have
been necessary. What u they could
have gotten a dozen acres. or I've acres
% good land somewhere and bought II
for what they squandered uselessly for
their house In ParkinEtOwn--they were
turned out and the house resold the
first month they failed Of payment
what a different history woud have
been told by the author!
What " the great packing trust. In
stead % killing men and women. should
!, provide that its employees could live On
an acre Of ground each. or a half acre.
out on the great fertile prairics Of
Illinois. quickly reached from the siork
II NMTuN AAsAN
they we're % necessity. perhaps. laid
or for a period % a week. or six
weeks. or on half time" they would
have q riece Of rich land which they
could tlll and raise enough potatoes AMI
corn and beans and eabhare 20 keep
them from starving % death. But the
hacking trust-Nr Ogden Armour and
other mIllionalres and mulii-miilion-
aiTes-wouid make less money: u
would decrease Us dividends perhaps
several FER cent. and that Is not 20 b
thought %. ny getting the best out 81
man. all there n In him In a few
short Years. this unnamahie Thing can
turn him out and get new blood. u
n evidently most profitable 10 "sreei .
man MP 20 the wrecking point and
then ret new men. This process ~
trafarkinR On human ilfe. coupled With
Ire aboEnlnable and poisonous adul,era-
tions and use % diseased animals
which Dir. Sinclair describes a. hrs'
hand. enables Mr. Armour and the
Others 20 make verv satisfactory nor
oeutaeea % proet-to pile up millions
% dlviderAs q vcar
n q an q verv great story. TU'
yuSotE ~ not . heautifai one. suA vel
! worth the reading sisrlv thst 80
rraAer nav learn ssmeshinG about ~,
stua We eat. and ~ what cost % sui
fsring q h prodncea