The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-15
FINANCIERS.
viii Be Exposed by Upton Sim
clair, in q Novel.
Written for a Socialist Paper In
Guise of Fiction.
SCORES "PLUTOCRATS"
%AppeaI to Reason" Is to Pay
Good Money for Article.
Story May Be Pronounced I'm
moral But True.
SCORES s'PLUTOCRATS''

Pittsburg. Kan, Aug. 15.-F'rom the
little town of Girard. the mecca OF
American Socialists and the home of
Socialist paper, comes the explanation
of a recent visit of Upton Sinclair to
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. According TO
a member of the editorial staff of the
CSirard paper, the youthful author Of
The Jungle has been Investigating
the skeletons in divers Pittsburg
closets in search of materials for new
story which is likely. when published,
to cause & storm worse than that
created by his earlier effort.
THE hinancier" Will be the name OF
the new novel, said the Girard editor
in a recent interview. 1T Will portray
another side of the social picture from
that depicted in The Jungle. 1t viii
show what becomes Of the enormous
profits piled up by the slaves of the
monopolists. 1t Will expose the scan
Qals, intrigues, immortality and social
rOttenness of what is called high So
ciety' and it will be drawn from life.
MI. Sinclair has recently made several
trips to Pittsburg, Newport and other
centers of wealth and fashion and in
the pages of his new book there Will
appear, in the guise of fiction. charac-
Ter studies of prominent leaders of the
smart set which all who know them
may recognize. Their fOllies and
S4AlAGS VIII De u6plCleQ WITH an lQSplr-
ing pen. and the Thaw-White-Be Belmont
Schwab -Corey- Hartje gang of plutes
VIII come in for such an arraignment
as they have never before received. Of
course the story will be pronounced
immoral and indecent and it may be.
But it will also be true"
That the Girard editor speaks as
one having authority is certain, since
The F'inancier," like its companion
story, The Jungle is written by his
direction and Will be first published as
q serial in his paper
Although not generally known the
IDEA OF The Jungle originated in
Kansas. the story having been written
at the solicitation of the Girard So
cialist paper, Sinclair receiving a cash
consideration Of $500 to undertake the
work.
For a long time prior to the pub
hcatlon OF The Jungle, " said the So
clallst editor I'VE had been DESTROYS
or publishing a serial story 1t was
Hot an ordinary story that we wanted
put an Uncle Toms Cabin of the
9ociallsI movement, story that would
shake the world 1t was the reading of
Manassas that led US to believe that
Upton Sinclair was the man for the
job Correspondence was Immediate
lX opened with the result that A meet
ing between Sinclair and member of
our STAFF was arranged at Chicago.
where contract providing for the
writing Of the now famous novel was
drawn Up.
Al that time Sinclair was living in
a hut constructed by his own hands
near Princeton. n. J. His fortunes
were at their lowest ebb and at times
ne could not provide sufficient food and
clothing for his invalid wife and
G,aughter- He was part and parcel Of
t.le submerged tenth of which he has
since written so convincinglv.''
Meanwhile. the bands are nla,-ine,
and the skies are bright at Newnorf
ana Saratoga and the devotees Of tba
smart set are in blissful ignorance
Or me storms that are brewing out