The Irish standard., 1906-08-11


to allow the class distinctions to be-
come as acute as possible
This advice is carried out! Eugene
V. Debs while rolling over ana over
eloquent phrases calls upon American
workmen to arm in defense of the
working class against capitalism. Our
neighbor. Canada. recently barred
from her mails the socialist paper con-
| tanning this effusion. but we allow the
Revolution breeder to do it's deadly
work with Il circulation of 800. 900. OPP
preston of the weak exists and it
must be righted. but is this tine means
and is Revolution the end?
Evidently Mr.. Upton Sinclair, the
latest socialist star, is of that opinion.
He tells with shocking frankness the
while story Of how to win the Revo-
luton in his book, The Jungle and
how it was written. It's purpose was
to blow the top off the industrial tea
KETTLE We have his word for it. So
long ago as 1903 in the month of May,
through the columns of the Independ-
ent MIR. Sinclair took the general pub
lie into his confidence as though it
We're his Father Confessor, with this
difference. that he was not penitent.
BY his article entitled My Cause he
laid bare his inner motives. They
have Il first and q second term. First.
to sell his intellectual wares, and Sc
c"nd. to advance socialist propaganda,
the new sensation resting on dupli-
city.
MIR. Sinclair has indeed. by his
trick. got even as he said he would.
with the literary world: he has choked
it with his own stuff for & time He
wanted $1,000 to live on while he wrote
his now much talked of Jungle So
he created one Arthur Stirling. Il young
poet. who could not find Il publisher
for his masterpiece. So quite consis-
tent with socialist philosophy he took
his life in his hand and went to
hades. Our author perpetuated the
scheme of the poets existence and of
his demise upon the general public
through the New York newspape
They We're betrayed into the hoax by
cialists of course). who reported the
imaginary drowning of the imaginary
poet. The first point had been gained.
Arthur Stirling had by death won a
hearing for Mr.. Sinclair who, IA few
months later. offered for sale the i'm
aginary Journal of Arthur Stirling
his mind and a thousand dollars for
his pocket.
But this was not the end! Mr.. Sim
clair. who had sacrificed his honor
that is. a man who does not hold the
socialist philosophy would have done
so-;nd then he stepped forward to
Cause was published. socialists thought
it great fun and good means in reach
ing the revolution.
81 knew. said the author of The
Jungle that the hoax would cost me
my reputation and the respect of all
decent people. but that dill not mat
the acquaintance of many decent peo-
pie. and am not obliged to hear what
the world thinks of me- Besides,
would cheerfully have robbed a house
or sandbagged millionaire had my
task been possible in no other way.
My one desire was to raise Il sensa-
and second to give me a standing
ground from which to begin the agita-
ton Of my cause.
The integrity of his evidence re-
garding the story of The Jungle is
as good and no better than the author-
ship of Arthur Stirling. his life poetry.
death and Journal. For upon the word
of Mr.. Reynolds not of Mr.. Snclair's
charges. which were placed before the
commission to investigate the packing
houses. was substantiated. Evidence
all coming from socialist sources vans
isled into thin air when proofs were
wanted by the Beef Trust Commits
sioners. Messrs Neil and Reynolds. !
Disgusting and filthy as the condi-
tinns were found to be. and loudly call
ing for no lesser remedy than the rec
concentration of the President-for in
spection from hoof to cantor the
pure food bill-nothing was found
equal to the packing of dead or dis
eased flesh of cattle. nor comparable
to the horror of rendering human bod
les into food products.
But then the motive of the Presi-
dent is Reform. while that of The
Jungle and it's socialist sources is Rev
olution--there is difference as wide
as heaven from hell.
Mrs. Ella Reeve Cohen Bloor. a
most radical advocate of socialism for
many years. whose testimony in sup
port of Mr.. Sinclair's charges backed
out step by step as it was pressed for
proof after proof. plainly states her
purpose in muck raking' in the con-
Guiding words of her Evidence in the
New York World of June 3. She says:
The real remedy will be the public