Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1906. “THE JUNGLE.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3700, 2 August 1906, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1906. “THE JUNGLE.”

The above is the title of a book that has created a tremendous sensation in Great Britain and in the United States of America, Its author, Mr Sinclair, is a Socialist writer, and he made it his duty to associate with butchers, drovers, and the employees of the beef trust in Packingtown, Chicago. Illustrations are given of diseased hogs being rendered into lard ; of decomposing hams being treated chemically; of the room where the sausage meat is restored ; and how the rats after being poisoned are shovelled into hoppers with the sausage meat and there canned and labelled —and the labels inform you that the contents are delicious. If an unfortunate employee had his finger or a limb broken off by the machinery, the machinery would not stop, and the limb would go into sausage meat and be duly canned and labelled as a delicious dish. Upton Sinclair defied the millionaires of Packingtown to contradict one detail in his book. Their only defence was that it was hysterical. “ The Jungle ” creates such a sensation in Great Britain that the soldiers in some of the Barracks absolutely refused to eat any “ canned ” American meat. Mr Sinclair by his book has conferred a blessing on the employees of Packingtown, and a boon on ■the people of Great Britain and the United States, who in the past have had to rely for their supplies on the tinned meat millionaires of Chicago. The book has a tremendous sale ; its veracity is not questioned, and it will do more to further the cause of .Socialism on that branch of Municipal control than all the writings and utterances of the greatest of its protagonists to-day.