Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-07-21

and worry, the boss sized him up at a
glance and 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
in the wearing out by inches, of a
strong man. Jurgis gets a job in the
terrible fertilizer vaults where his head
nearly splits with the poisonous dust
and the sitting fumes of ammonia.
His father dies from the effects of the
awful speeding up" and the Shiny
wet in which he has to work, ankle
deep. Ona, the beautiful. the once
blithe young bride succum.s to the
hateful System" and Jurgis. powerful
man that he is, his strong spirit broken
by the brutality and Irresistible power
of the bosses. becomes a great gaunt.
hollow eyed ghost of his former self.
The story is a ale of the gradual
determination of a splendid, virile
European family, ground to death by
a System by a pitiless monopoly,
which cares no more or not as much
for its workers than ii does for the
carcasses of the animals ii converts in
to food. incidentally the description
of this process is sufficiently revolving
to turn the stomach of the stoutest
beefeater.
Oh! could Jurgis, and Ona, and the
rest of them, with their frugality and
their Drawn, and their love of life and
work, and joy of a home, have gone
into some rural district to work out
thpir Go1u1tinn what "a 1iffnpopt "Gtnyxv
would have been THE JUNGLE. Some
other name for the book would have
been necessary. What if they could
have gotten a dozen acres, or five acres
of good land somewhere and bought it
for what they %squandered uselessly for
their house in Packingtown-they were
turned out and the house resold the
first month they failed of payment
what a different history would have
been told by the author
What If 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 a half acre,
out on the great fertile prairies of
Illinois. quickly reached from the stock
yards by a modern trolley. so that when
they were of necessity, perhaps, laid
off" for a period of a week. or six
weeks. or on "half time they would
have a piece of rich land which they
could till and raise enough potatoes and
corn and hoars aNd nhho~ ~ keep
them from starving to death. But the
hacking trnst-Mr. Opden 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
| a man, all there is in him in a few
short wears, this unnamable Thing can
turn him out and get new blood. 1t
is evidently most profitable TO "sDeed a
man up" to the wrecking point and
then get new men. This process Of
traffickine in human life, coupled with
the abominable and poisonous adultera-
lions and use of diseased animals
which Mr.. Sinclair describes at first
hand, enables Mr.. Armour and the
others to make verv satisfactory nor
centaees of prolific pile up millions
of dividends a wear.
It is all a very great story. TUr
JUNGLE If not a beautiful one, and vol
worth the reading. simnlv that ~
reader NAV learn sometime about tho
stuff we eat, and at what cost of srf
fering It is produced.