The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-19

HE INDUSTRIAL REPUBLIC" by upton Sinclair author of The Jungle" published by Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New York; $1.50; at Judds.
 Upton Sinclair's success as the author Of "The Jungle" has melted him to proceed further in his aspirations to reform the world and he now appears in the role of seer and prophet in his new book, "The Industrial Republic" !" The volume may well. be termed a ve- hicle for the expression and promul- sstion of the authors socialistic views which he airs freely. He tries in this work to give his readers his ideas of what socialism is, and yet part of the volume is plain fiction tinctured with hrnor There is grim humor certainly in his adoption of the role of the seer and prophet and he takes himself se- riously enough. No matter what other socialists think, MT. Sinclair has his owl opinions as to socialism, what it is and what it seeks to accomplish and for while throughout several chapters he fires away with his socialist propa- ganda oratory presenting anaTogies, appeals and illustrations and summariz- ation of principles with force and elo- quence. He is at his best in this part of the volume and in this part seems to pour out his most soulful feelings. He evidences disgust plainly over the failure of "The Jungle" to inaugurate a wholesale sweeping crusade against the whole industrial system the world over and regrets that his shafts of reformation were confined to bad beef alone. This time he sails in and makes clear what he wants in the way of re- forms. Going back to the Civil war times and the abolition movement he finds much to suggest that the aboli- lion movement had points of similarity to the present abolition of what he terms wage slavery" The slave own CT wanted more slave territory; the bloated capitalists of today want more r1arkets--rnore new territory for their operations. But the social revolution now in progress and which MT Sinclair Is championing with great gusto and energy will, he ayers, sweep all before it. This is another 'irrepressible con- f1ict,p and MT. Sinclair's prophetic vis- ion now comes into play with dates and figures The mantle of the prophet now having dropped upon him, he ex- claims and gives to the world the fol- lowing startling announcement, all though somehow nobody seems much worried over it:
 Il believe that the economic process is whirling us on with terrific momen- tum toward the crisis and I look to see tlis most essential features of the great transformation accomplished in Ameri- ca within one year after the Presiden- tial election of 1a12'
 In our present trusts, for instance, he sees perfect examples of the centraliz- ing and systematizing of production and distribution. Absolutely the only thing needed to fit them into his proph- esied Utopia Is a change of ownership from the few to the many, or, rather, to all, The labor unions exemplify the building up of the machinery of indus trial self-government. Our churches and clubs, our benevolent and artistic and scientific associations, contain the germs of all the cooperative activities of the future. Our postoffice and our educational system present complete and perfect pieces of practical social- ism, ready to fit into the structure of { the coming republic. In the army and navy we have example of industrial pa- ternalism which need only the breath of a new ideal to make them indis- pensable for all time.
 The process of evolution by which Mir. Sinclair was enabled to see with crystal clearness of vision, and foretell the exact date as above mentioned is told by him felicitously. With rare and becoming modesty he compares himself to Cuvier, the naturalist who could con- struct a prehistoric animal from a bit of its bone" It is a modest comparison, because Cuvier could only restore the past, whereas Sinclair can construct that which is to come. Of modern American society he writes: 1T have far more than the bone of this monster; have his tail, beginning far back in tho '70s, and have the whole of his huge body-the present. have count cd his scales and measured his limbs l have even felt his pulse and had his blood under the miscroscope" The re- suit of all this startling study is the assurance that the industrial revolu- ton will take place in America within one year after the presidential election of 1912; and, in saying this, I claim to speak, not as a dreamer nor as child, but as scientist and prophet"
 Mir. Sinclair has delved deeply in the production of his new book He has consulted H. G. Wells; he cites Mall thus, John Spargo, Van Worst, MT. Stef fens, Mark Hanna and so on He does not forget the German Emperor. He does not overlook the coming presiden- tial campaign outlook and characterizes Roosevelt as a great compromiser, not mentioning Mir, Roosevelt's declination of his services in connection with beef trust investigations; he denominates Taft as Hast figurehead, a sort of James Buchanan. He is very dis couraglng to Mr. Bryan, saying that MT, Bryan is to be defeated as presi dential candidate at the next Demo- cratic convention-here the author having assumed his prophets mantle again. Proceeding with the mantle still on he refers again to the afore said predicted great industrial crisis just a little ahead of us. In this crisis 5,O0C,0O0 or 10,000,O00 people are going to be out of work for a year, and in 1912 they are going to elect William Randolph Hearst President over Roosevelt Then in about twelve months the whole country will be so-