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DEMOCRACY'S PROBABLE STANDARD BEARER IN 1908 "Mr. Bryan once more looms up on the political horizon," says a conservative Democratic paper, the Chicago Evening Post, "imminent and huge, but no longer threatening." This picture was made just before Mr. Bryan started on his present tour of the world, and has not before been published. Current Literature VOL. XLI, No. 1 Edward J. Wheeler, Editor Associate Editors: Leonard D. Abbott, Alexander Harvey A Review of the World JULY, 1906 A MERICA is cleaning out her sewers. The manhole covers are off and the buckets, dripping with filth, are coming up into plain view. The sight is not a pleasant one and the odor is quite different from that of attar of roses. But the more repulsive the sight, the more nauseating the stench, the more certain it is that the work is an imperative one. For these sewers are trunk-line sewers that make connections with almost every home of the land, and the gases from them are of the deadliest nature. The latest one to be opened that of the meat-packing industry -seems to be the foulest one of the lot. The odor from the life insurance sewer seemed to be bad enough, and that that has recently come from the Standard Oil sewer and the Pennsylvania Railroad sewer is far from delightful; but it is almost like the smell of new mown hay in comparison with the stenches that are filling the land from the filthy details that have been dragged to light in the investigation made by President Roosevelt's special commissioners of the packing-houses of Chicago. uncon Doubleday, Page & Company; but they would not publish it until they had sent an emissary or two-Thomas H. McKee, a New York lawyer, and Isaac F. Marcosson, an editor of The World's Work-to verify the statements made. Some of the results of their investigation appeared in articles in The World's Work recently. The novel was published, and it and the corroborative evidence obtained by Mr. McKee and Mr. Marcosson came under the observation of President Roosevelt. He had a talk or two with Mr. Sinclair, and as a result sent out to Chicago two commissioners, Charles P. Neill, Ph.D., and James B. Reynolds. The former is United States Commissioner of Labor and Professor of Political Economy in the Catholic University, Washington; the latter was for years head worker of the University Settlement in New York City, then became chairman of the executive committee of the Citizens' Union, then Secretary to Mayor Low. Both men have been liberally educated, Mr. Neill at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, and Johns Hopkins University; Mr. Reynolds at Yale University, Yale Divinity School, Columbia, Berlin and Paris. THEIR preliminary report was sent to IT IT WAS all started by a novel. "The Jungle" is a story of the packing-house district, written by a boyish-looking young man of twenty-seven, Upton Sinclair, with Congress by President Roosevelt Mondecided literary genius. It is an day, June 4. For some time previous, what cealed socialistic tract. "I had no idea," is known as the Beveridge amendment had he says, "of stirring up all this row. My been up for consideration in the Senate. It sole idea in writing 'The Jungle' was to por- was originally submitted as a separate bill, tray the condition of the workingman as by the Senator from Indiana, and was aftercompared with the money-power, with the ward attached as an amendment to the idea of aiding the cause of Socialism." The agricultural bill. Its object is Its object is "to pronovel was first published as a serial in a vide for the inspection, examination, and socialistic paper-The Appeal to Reason. supervision of live cattle, sheep, swine, and Afterward it was submitted to several goats and the carcasses and food prodbook publishers without success. It had a ucts thereof, which are the subjects of better reception at the publishing house of interstate or foreign commerce, and for 231766 WHERE "THE JUNGLE" WAS WRITTEN The hut built by Upton Sinclair in Princeton, where he lived while he wrote his novel. He has a failing for huts. His first novel, "King Midas," was written in a log hut in the Canada wilds. other purposes. This Beveridge amendment is stringent in its provisions; but the meat-packers made no fight against it in the Senate. According to the newspapers, they had knowledge of the nature of the report which Commissioners Neill and Reynolds were prepared to make, and were willing to agree to almost any kind of legislation rather than have that report published.] The Beveridge amendment, accordingly, as passed by the Senate without opposition and was sent to the House of Representatives. There, however, opposition arose, and the President thereupon promptly sent to Congress the first part of the report, together with a message emphasizing "the urgent need of immediate action by the Congress in the direction of providing a drastic and thorough-going inspection by the federal government." A few days later, at the request of the House committee, he sent another report made by the bureau of animal industry to the Department of Agriculture on the same subject. This report is the result of an examination by the special inspectors of the bureau, and, according to the President, "there is no conflict in substance between the two reports, although there is a marked difference in emphasis." There are, therefore, now before the public two official reports, in addition to various magazine articles -one by Upton Sinclair in Everybody's, one by Thomas H. McKee in The World's Work, another in the same magazine by Dr. William K. Jaques, of Chicago, formerly city bacteriologist of that city in charge of meat inspection. There are also a reply made by the meat-packers to the Neill-Reynolds report, and a series of articles written by J. Ogden Armour, head of the biggest meatpacking house in the country, which have recently appeared in the Saturday Evening ONE ESTABLISHMENT (ARMOUR'S) IN "PACKINGTOWN' Says J. Ogden Armour: "The West, the Northwest, Alaska, even the uttermost parts of the earth, have been explored and opened to civilization on Chicago canned meats. The ars of the world-in the Soudan, in South Africa, in China Jand in Manchuria-have been fought on Chicago canned meats." |