The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-10-05
TEE "JUNGLE'' OUT JUNGLED.
Georgia Author Puts Sinclair to the
Woods.
Baltimore Wnl'ld.

Baltimore World.
Back to the tall timbcrs for "Thc
.hmgle' and Mr.. Sinclair.
Once upon Il time an unsuspecting
public imagined they had read book
filled with lurid attacks upon the aw-
full trusts--thought they had seen
some crn"kedness exposed. Mr.. Up
ton Sinclair even made money out of
their so thinking. Congress got busy
on the same account.
Now they have discovered it was all
a mistake. "'rhe Juns sle' is a very
quiet, conservative and ludy-lilSe sto-
ry. "Thc Sweet CiciIy Sisters" are
"oing to put it in their library. Why7
Well, "The Jungle' has been outiun-
%led. Listen to this:
81 regard John ID. Rockefeller a.
the greatest thief the world ever pro-
duced---"rcater than Charles the First
or Louis NVI-and the greatest liv-
III" hyp"crite. His donations to the
church are to close the mouth of the
pulpit. lie knows that if the pulpits
OF the country were to open up on his
commercial crimes he would be in the
penitentiary. I write my book. 'The
Struggle. for the avowcd purpose of
placing John ID. Rockefeller in the
penitentiary. .'-Tapp.
The man who put John ID. Roclle-
feller in the penitentiary-in n novel
lis a lawyer of Atlanta, Ga.
He is likewise the man who expos
ed Tom Taggart s gambling joint in
French Lick Springs, resulting in the
prosecution of the chairman Of the
democratic national committee. The
Georgia author says he expects his
book to revolutionizc American sen
tlment to such an extent that the
Standard Oil magnate will get in real
ity what his counterpart in the novel
got--not less than 20 years.
The pictures drawn in Tapp's nov
el are so sharp and clear that they
are easily recognized. For instance,
John Suckclow, with neither hair nor
eyebrows and able to eat only crack
crs and milk. and one of The greatest
commercial pirates the world has ever
seen. has been identified by the critics
rs John ID.
P"nt Slogan e. CO.'S office. where
all the vi!lainy was perpeirateI. has
been recognized as il very good pict-
ure Of the headquarters Of j. Pier
pont Morgan, Will street, New York.
j. Ogden Armour has Il double in the
book, and it is said that the people of
North Carolina have identified one
Of the characters as John ID. Duke, the
tobacco trust man.
1t is also said that the people Of
Georgia have recognized a similarity
between John Horton, Of the novel.
and Hamilton MeWhorter, the "Bill
PhelpS' of the Southern Railway. The
novel has created sensation. through
out the South.
1t is terrible arraienment of the
trusts and trust masters, whose COM
mercial tyranny is depicted with great
force by the author of the novel.
The book is called FThc Straggle, -
and it starts out by picturing the
beautiful home of Blue Grass far
mer surrounded by the happiness that
should be his under normal CONNER
cial conditions. Then the story shows
the results ow "trustism,' and with
fine strokes of sarcasm draws
characters that are readily recognized
as the heads of several of the coun-
try's greatest combination Of capital.
The author is making no vertical
tion or denial of Identification. 1t is
said that Il man who thinks he is the
original Of one Of the characters in
the book has threatened to prosecute
the author. 1t would be a back hand
ed stroke of fate if book written for
the avowed purpose Of sending the
trust magnates to the penitentiary
should land its author in Jail.
"The book is a problematical novel
dealing with the industrial and COM
Eiercial conditions of our times,' sai,.
Tapp. "I wrote it to show up the
infamy of the trust magnates, and to
prove, by deduction, that the Anglo
Saxon race is capable Of self-govcrn-
ment. Of course, it has love story,
but around that is woven the facts
that deal with our times.
81 visited French Lick Springs in
July and witnessed the gamling ex-
hibitiOn in Tawuart & establishment T