The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-25

rA. .,n~,e. by Upton Sinclair.---No a.rcer word was ever written Terri- tla as ii Is 1t holds interest with the grasp of some beast of the 1uns'e ne victim.
 Ii ,s the story of that most relenl-. fess monster, that most merciless s, oeas1 of nrey. that most fierce, pitteriy ,lOs c1ue. hrute that ever throttied vlS'Hn, Poverty. ,,.r 4aasss 'ifs nrey with slower deatn tnan that with which Poverty paws ana pats rts wretched catch. ,.,,. No heast more to be dreaded lurks ii any jungle than this beast PoVefty that haunts every city ana threatens avery community. 4.
 There were heroes who went ou. ~ kill fiery dragons. the Caledonlan .iy,s u ths Minotaur. the monsters of old tune, Ars there no heroes to attack thus monster of all timer Ao-,.
 Is ii true that the wealth ot AfieIl a. hreeds the spawn of this heTsc creature tin its multitudiosity equsis its ferocity? ,,, nrou0h
 The story begins happily enonSh 1., with a wedding. The two loVers. .u ris and Ono. lovers in the .ioa Loe f, Tithuania. have come 10 A1ei l0a ,,si-a a fortune. They are just married astar r,anv -misfortunes and are keep ,r aiI too merrily the wedding teast' .hs avasaIiia" No onlooker al the sastivities is turned away without d lii If inc goose or the ham. a SID ol the beer. it is hard to Keep up e hospitable custom Of thelr lar bone in Chicago's Padingtown' put tha' noor souls made the effort. bt hv hit these poor people have given uP cyarvthing else--they cannot give up tho yeseliii. To do that would meah' mi merely to be defeated. but to ac rnowIedge defeat--and the dinefence between these two things IS Wha' keeps the world going .,o
 With vivid horror are depictsa ,"s streets of little frame houses, thirty. four such streets. miles ana mues ~ thon, on made land" made Of a sitS garbage. with mud knee-deep in them and water at front doors deep enough to drown children at play avery sTed' feature. every small filthy detail or the town that crouches about the Worio great Butcher Houses. is clearly utaW" with not an alleviating beauty to es credit nthe thickening smoke--the strange pungent odor-an elemental o5or rich. almost rancid, sennal' sfronp-the swarms of flies, literally bIackening the air Jurgis. the young giant of the Lithuanian forest gets ms work in this vast maelstrom of XII and cure and pack and ship. In com nany with the only man they know in Chicago John has of delicatesse1 shop. the family of twelve i1ithus a'' nian visit the stockyards and see the vast caravan at it's labors. They don't waste anything here, said the guide and added a witticism, which nc was pleased that his unsophistlcateo friends should take to be ms own They use everything about the hoe e4cept the squeal.' In front of Brown general office building there grows tiny plot of grass. and this is the only vresn thing in Padingtown; likewis' this jest about the hog and his squeai the stock in trade of all the guides. i' inc one glance of humor that you vii find there."
 The heartrcndlng story of each ant every one of the twelve emigrarts ! told to a finish through most appall ing stages.
 ola Dede Antanas. father of Jurgi' can only get work by giving bos craft of a third of his weekly wag' The salt petre of the pickling room deeu in drippings where he labors eat into his feet, the damp brings a con sumption that eats into his lung death Is his only blessing. Maria, tn gay, finds the bitterest life is all lei for her. A,
 Little stanisloras.. beer carrier to tn hackers. tastes too much from tn buckets that he carries and sleeps an is killed and nearly eaten of rats.
 Ona's beauty brings it's banetul hor TOT and only death gives release.
 Jurgis after experiencing every ter TOT. every grief, every loss. every bit C victimizing a man can undergo. be comes Socialist It is q terribl book. The reader is lost in it's page as if indeed in a painless, ever darl unwholesoTne, noisome jungle. On reads without courage and withot hope. If this is indeed the clear ligt of truth let into the density of sue unspeakabIe horrors this blazing in dictment of conditions of graft. crue ty, fierceuess of competition, soulles 'speedng" of labor, crushing of veal ness to the wall, surely some hero en@s3aaG