The Delta independent., 1906-07-20

and worry. the boss sized him up at a
glance aud there was no work for him
in packingtown. and Ona, whom he had
married meantime was about TO be.
come a mother.
Then is recited in THE JUNGLE. a tale
OF gradual and heart-rending downfall
H. the wearing out by inches, of a
strong man. Jurgis gets a job in the
Il -rihle fertilizer vaults where his head
nearly splits with the poisonous dust
and The sitting fumes of ammonia
II lis father dies from the effects of the
awful speeding up" and the Shiny
We, in which he has to work, ankle
decH. Ona, the beautiful, the once
bli'Ae Young bride succum-s 10 the
hateful System and Jurgis. powerful
muH that he is, his strong spirit broken
by III" brutality and Irresistible power
of the bosses. becomes a great gaunt
hollow eyed ghost of his former self
The story is tale of the gradual
cNtr-mination of a splendid, virile
Eur'roan family. ground TO death by
a SYSTEM" by pitiless monopoly,
which cares no more or not as much
for IS workers than II does for the
caruI~Ses of the animals it converts in
to fn'i. incidentally the description
of rl1s process is sufficiently revolving
TO 'n-u the stomach of the stouteSt
beefea'er.
Oh could Jurgis. and Ona, and the
rest Of them, with their frugality and
their Hrawn, and their love of life and
worh and joy of home. have gone
into ONE rural district to work out
their Aviation, what n different story
would have been THE jungle. Some
other name for the book would have
been necessary. What If they could
have cotten dozen acres. or five acres
of good land somewhere and bought ii
for wAat they squandered uselessly for
their louise in Packingtown-they We're
turned out and the house resold the
first month they failed of payment
what different history woud have
been told by the author,
What IL the great packing trust. in
stead Of killing men and women. should
provide that its employees could live on
an acre of ground each. or half acre.
out on the great fertile prairies of
Illinois, quickly reached from the stock
yards Ny a modern trolley. so that when
they we're of necessity, perhaps, laid
of" for a period of week. or six
weeks, or on half time" they would
have piece of rich land which they
could ill and raise enough potatoes and
corn and beans and cabbage to keep
them from starving to death. But the
packing trust-Mr. Ogden Armour and
other millionaires and multi-million.
aires would make less money; It
would decrease its dividends perhaps
several per cent. and that is not to be
thought OF. BY getting the best out Of
man all there is in him in few
short ears. this unnamable Thing can
turn him out and get new blood 1t
is evidently most profitable to speed
man up" to the wrecking point and
then get new men. This process OF
traffcking in human life. coupled with
the nhominable and poisonous adultera.
tions and use OF diseased animals
which Mr.. Sinclair describes at first
hand. enables Mr.. Armour and the
others to make very satisfactory per.
centages Of prolific pile up millions
Of dividends year.
II is all = very great story. THE
JuNGIs II not beautiful one. and we'll
worth the reading. simply that the
reader may learn something about the
stun we eat, and at what cost Of SUI
fering II 10 produced.