The Irish standard., 1906-08-11

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to allow the class distinctions to be-
come as acute as possible
This advice is carried out! Eugene
V. Debs While rolling over and over
eloquent phrases calls upon American
workmen to arm in defense of the
working class against capitalism. Our
neighbour 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 a circulation of 800. 1000. OPP
preston of the weak exists and it
must be righted. but is this the 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. Its 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. Mr.. 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 /. first and a second term. First.
to sell his intellectual wares and Sc
cnnd. 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
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 newspapers.
They We're betrayed into the hoax by
the aid of Mr.. Sinclairs friends (so-
ciaiStS 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
agnary Journal of Arthur Stirling
Thus MIR. Sinclair found a market for
his mind and a thousand dollars for
his pocket.
But this was not the end! MIR. Sin
clair. who had sacrificed his honor
that is. a man who does not hold the
socialist philosophy would have done
s"-and then he stepped forward to
sacrifice his reputation. When My
Cause was published. socialists thought
il great fun and good means in reach
ing the revolution.
~ knew said the author of The
Jungle that the hoax would cost me
my reputation and the respect of all
decent people. but that did not mat
ter for | have not been favored with
pie. and 1 am not obliged to hear what
the world thinks of me. Besides, I
would checrfully have robbed house
or sandbagged millionaire had my
task been possible in no other way.
My one desire was to raise !, senSa-
ton. first To sell the book. Of course.
and. second. to give me /; standing
ground from which to begin the agita-
ton of my cause.
The integrity of his evidence re-
garding the story of .fhe 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. Sinclair's
charges which were placed before the
commission to investigate the packing
houses. was substantiated. Evidence
all coming from socialist sources van-
ished into thin air when proofs were
wanted by the Beef Trust Commits
sioners. Messrs. Neil and Reynolds.
Disgusting and filthy as the condi-
tnns 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 its socialist sources is Rev.
Olution---there is a 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 cons
Guiding words of her Evidence in the
New York World of June 8. She says:
The real remedy will be the public