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END OF THE JUNGLE’-JURGIS A SOCIALIST
DRIVEN TO STRAITS OF UNEXAMPLED MISERY,
STARVATION BECOMES ALMOST A REALITY
Upton Sinclair’s Story in the
Ending ’Rouses Thoughts
of the Future.
(Copyright, ItOt, by Upton Sinclair. All right, reserved. Published by
courtesy of Doubleday, Page A Co.)
CHAPTER XXVI (CONTINUED).
Just at this time the mayor was boasting that be had put an end to
gambling and prise lighting |n the city; but here a swarm of professional
gamblers had leagued themselves with the police to fleece the strike break
ers; and any night In the big open space In front of Brown's one might sea
brawny negroes stripped to the waist and pounding each other for money,
while a howling throng of three or tour thousand surged about, men and
women, young white girls from the country rubbing elbows with big buck
negroes with daggers In their boots, while rows of woolly heads peered
down from every window of the surrounding factories. The ancestors of
these black people had been savages In Africa; and since then they had
been chattel slaves, or had been held down by a community ruled by the
traditions of alavery. Now for the first time they were free—free to gratify
every passion, free to wreck themselves. They were wanted to break a
strike, and when It was broken they would be shipped away and their
present masters would never see them again; and so whisky and women
were brought In by the carload and sold to them, and hell was let loose In
tha yards. Every night there were stabblngs and shootings; It was said that
the packers had blank permits, which enabled them to ship dead bodies from
the city without troubling the authorities. They lodged men and women on
the aame floor; and with the night there began a saturnalia of debauchery
—scenes such aa never before had been witnessed In America. And as the
women were the dregs from the brothels of Chicago, and the men were, for
the moat part. Ignorant country negroes, the nameless diseases of vice were
soon rlfa; and this whers food was being handled which was sent out to
every corner of the civilised world. !
. The “Union Stock Yards" were never a pleasant place; but now they
were not only a collection of slaughter houses, but also the camping place
of an army of fifteen or twenty thousand human beasts. All day long the
biasing midsummer sun beat down upon that sqaure mile of abominations;
upon tens of thousands of cattle crowded Into pens whose wooden floors
stank and steamed contagion; upon bare, blistering, cinder-strewn railroad
tracks and huge blocks of dingy meat factorlos, whose labyrinthine passages
defied a breath of fresh air to penetrate them; and there were not merely
rivers of hot blood and car loads of moist flesh and rendering vats and spap
caldrons, glue factories and fertiliser tanks, that smalled like the cratera
of hell—there were also tons of garbage teetering In the sun, and th*
greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered
With food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers.
And then at night, when this throng poured out Into the streets to play
—-fighting, gambling, drinking and carousing, cursing and screaming, laugh
ing and singing, playing banjos and dancing! They were worked In tho
yards all the seven days of the week, and they had their prjie fights and
crap games on Hunday night aa well; but then around the corner one might
see a bonfire blazing and an old, gray-headed negress, lean and witch-llke,
her hair flying wild and her eyes biasing, yelling and chanting of the fires of
perdition and the blood of the "Lamb,” while men and women lay down upon
the ground and moaned and screamed In convulsions of terror and remorse.
Buck were tho stockyards during the the police proceeded to administer It
■trike; while the unions watched
•ullen despair, and th. country clam
ored like a greedy child for Its food,
and th. packers went grimly on their
way. Each day they added new work
ers, and could be more atom with the
Old ones—could put them on piece
work, and dismiss them It they did not
keep up the pace. Jurgls was now
one of their agents In this process; and
he could feel the chunge day by day,
like the elow starting up of a huge
machine. He had gotten used to being
a master of men; and because of the
stifling heat and the stench, and the
by leaping from the truck and cracking
at every head they saw.
There were yells of rage, and the
terrified people lied Into houses and
stores, or scattered helter-skelter down
the street. Jurgls and his gang Joined
singling out
In the sport, every man
his victim, und striving to bring him
to bay and punch him. It he lied Into
a house his pursuer would smash In
the flimsy door and follow him up the
stairs, hitting every one who came
within reach, and Anally dragging his
squealing quarry from under a bed or
a pile of old clothes In a closet.
Jurgls and two policemen chased
f*ct that he was a "scab' 1 and knew It. some men Into a barroom. One of
and despised himself, he was drinking,
and developing a villainous temper.
Wilts UCICIUJIlllg U •IIIUIIIUUS ll-ilipvi,
and he stormed and cursed and ruged
at his men, and drove them until they
were ready to drop with exhaustion.
Then one day late In August, a su
perintendent ran Into the place and
shouted to Jurgie and hi* gang to drop
their work and come. They followed
him outside, to where. In the midst of
a dense throng, they saw several two-
horse trucks waiting, and three patrol
wagon loads of police. Jurgls and his
men sprang upon .one of the trucks,
and the driver yelled to the crowd,
and they went thundering away at a
gallop. Some steers had Just escaped
from the yards, and the strikers had
got bold of them, and there would be
the chance of a scrap!
They went ont at the Ashland ave
nue gats, and over In the direction of
thw N 4nmi
the “damp.” There was a yell aa soon
as they were sighted, men and women
rushing out of houses and saloons as
they galloped by. There were eight or
ten policemen on the trucks, however,
and there was no disturbance until
they came to a place where the street
was blocked with a dense throng. Those
on the flying truck yelled a warning
and the crowd scattered pellmell, dis
closing one of the steers lying In It*
blood. Tbsre were a good many cat
tle butchers about Just then, with noth
ing much to do, and hungry children
at home; and to some one had knock
ed out the steer—and as a first-class
man can kill and dress one In a couple
or minutes, there were a good many
etesks and roasts already aliasing. This
called fur punishment of course; and
them took shelter behind the bar,
where a policeman cornered him and
proceeded to whack him over the back
and shodjdere, until he lay down and
gave a chance at his head. The oth
ers leaped a fence In the rear, balking
the second policeman, who was fat;
and as he came back, furious and curs
ing, n big Polish woman, the owner
of the saloon, rushed In screaming, and
received a poke In the stomach that
doubled her up on the floor. Mean
time Jurgls, who was of a practical
temper, was helping hltnself at the bar;
und the first policeman, who had laid
out his man. Joined him, handing out
several more bottles, and filling his
pockets besides, and then, ns he started
to leave, cleaning off all the balance
with a sweep of hi* club. The din of
the glass crashing to the floor brought
the fat Polish woman to her feet again,
hut another pollcemaji came up behind
her and put his knee Into her back
and his hands over her eye*—and then
called to his companion, who went back
and broke open the cash drawer and
fllled his pockets with the contents.
Then the three went outside, and the
man who was holding the woman gave
her a shove and dashed nut himself.
The gang, having already got the car
cass onto the truck, the party set out
at a trot, followed by screams and
curses and a shower of bricks and
stones from unseen enemies. These
bricks and stones would figure In the
accounts of the “riot" which would be
sent nut to n few thousand newspapers
within an h6ur or two; but the epi
sode of the cash drawer would never
be mentioned again, save only In the
heart-breaking legends of Packlngtown.
It was late In the afternoon when
they got back, and they dressed out the
remainder of the steer, and a couple of
others that had been killed, and then
knocked off for the day. Jurgls went
downtown to supper, with three friends
who had been on the other trucks,
and they exchanged reminiscences on
the way. Afterward they drifted Into a
roulette parlor, and Jurgls, who was
never lucky at gambling, dropped about
115. -To console himself, he had to
drink a good deal, and he went back
to Packlngtown about 2 o’clock In the
morning, very much the worse tor Ills
excursion, and. It must be confessed,
entirely deserving the calamity that
was In store for him.
As he was going to the place where
he slept he met a painted-cheeked
woman In a greasy “kimono," and she
put her arm about hie'waist to steady
him: they turned. Into a ^ark room
they were passing—but scarcely had
they taken two steps before suddenly
a door swung open, and a man enter
ed, carrying a lantern. “Who’s there?”
he’called sharply. And Jurgls started
to mutter some reply; but at the same
Instant the man raised his light, which
flashed In his face, so that It was pos
sible to recognise him. Jurgls stood
stricken dumb, and his heart gave a
leap like a mad thing. The man was
Connorl
Connor, the boss of the loading gang.
The man who had ruined his wlfo—who
had. sent him to prison, and' wrecked
his noine, and ruined his life. He stood
there, staring with the light shining
full upon him.
Jurgls had often thought of Connor
since coming back to Packlngtown. but
It had been as of something far off,
that no longer concerned him. Now,
mat nu lungrr uuunnivu uni*.
however, when he 'saw him, alive and
In the flesh, the same thing happened
to him that had happened before—a
flood of rage boiled up In him, a blind
frensy seised him. And he flung him
self nt tfie man, and smote him be
tween tho eyes—and then, ae he fell,
seised him by the throat and began to
pound his head upon the stones.
The woman began screaming, and
people enme rushing In. The lantern
had been upset and extinguished, and
It was so dark they could not see a
thing: but they could hear Jurgls
punting, and hear the thumping of his
victim's skull, and they rushed there
and tried to pull him off. Precisely
as before, Jurgls came away with a
piece of his enemy's flesh between his
teeth; and, as before, he went on fight
ing with those who had Interfered
with him, until a policeman had come
nnd beaten him Into Insensibility.
And so Jurgls spent tho balance of
the night In the stock yards station
house. This time, however, he had
money In his pocket, and when he came
to his senses he could get something
to drink, und also a. messenger to take
word of his plight to “Bush’' Harper,
llariier did not appear, however, until
after the prisoner, feeling very weak
and III, had been haled Into court and re-
mnnded at 1500 ball to await the result
of his victim’s Injuries. Jurgls was
wild about this, because a different
magistrate had chanced to be on the
bench, nnd he had stated that he had
never been arrested before, and also
that he had been attacked first—and If
only some one had been there to speak
a good word for him he could have
been let off at once.
But Harper explained that he had
been down town, and had not got the
message. “What’s happened to you?"
he asked.
“TYs been doing a fellow up,” said
Jurgls, “and I’ve got to get 1500 ball.”
“I can arrange that all right,” said
the other, "though It may cost you a
few dollars, of coorse. But what was
the trouble?"
“It was a man that did me a mean
trick once," answered Jurgls.
•Who Is he?”
"He’s a foreman In Brown’s—or ujed
to be. His name's Connor.
And the other gave a start '’Con
nor!'" he cried. “Not Phil Connor?"
"Yes," said Jurgls, “that’s the fellow.
WhjfO"
"aood Ood!" exclaimed the other,
then you’re Jn for It, old man! I
can't help you!”
•Not help me! Why not?”
•Why, he’s on* of Scully's biggest
men—he’s a member of the War-
Whoop League, and they talked of
sending him to the legislature! Phil
Connor! Great heavens!”
Jurxls sat dumb with dismay.
“Why, he can send you to Joliet If
he wnnts to!” declared the other.
“Can’t I have Scully get me oft be
fore he find* out about ItT* asked Jur
gls. at length.
"But Scully’s out of town,” the other
answered. "I don't even know where
he Is—he's run away to dodge the
strike.”
Thnt we* a pretty mess. Indeed. Poor
Jurgls sat half dated. His pull had run
up against a bigger pull, and he was
down and out! “But what am I going
to do?" he asked, weakly.
How should I know?" said the oth-
"I shouldn't even dare to get ball
for you—why, I might ruin myself for
life!"
Again there wss silence. "Can't you
do It for me?" Jurgls asked. "And pre
tend that you didn't know who I’d
hit?”
"But what good would that do when
you came to stand trial?” asked Harp
er. Then he sat burled In thought tor
a minute or two. "There's nothing—
unless It’s this.” he said. "I could have
your ball reduced; and then If you had
the money you could pay It and skip.”
“How much will It be?” Jurgls asked,
after he had had this explained more
In detail.
"I don't know," said the other. "How
much do you own?”
"I’ve got about ISOO,” was the an
swer.
“Well," said Harper, ‘TiB not sure,
but I'll try nnd get you oft for that. I’ll
take the risk for friendship's sake—for
I'd hate to see you sent to state prison
for a year or two."
And so finally Jurgls ripped out his
bonk hook—which was sewed up In
hts trousers—and signed nn order,
which "Bush" Harper wrote, for all the
money to Ue paid out Then the lat
ter went and got It, and hurried to
the court, and explained to the magis
trate that Jurgls was a decent fellow
and a friend of Scully's, who had been
attacked by a strike-breaker. Bo the
ball was reduced to ISOO, and Harper
went on It himself; he did not tek this
to Jurgls, however—nor did he tell him
that when the time for trial came ft
would be an easy matter for him to
avoid the forfeiting of the ball and
pocket the ISOO as his reward for the
risk of ofTendlng Mike Scully! All that
he told Jurgls was that ha was now
free, and that the best thing he could
do teas to clear out as quickly as pos
sible; and so Jurgls, overwhelmed with
gratitude and relief, took the dollar
and fourteen cents that was left him
out of all his bank account, and put It
with the two dollars and a quarter
that was left from his lost night's cele
bration, and boarded a street car and
got oft at the other end of Chicago.
CLOSING CHAPTERS
OF “.THE JUNGLE.”
After Chapter XXVI "The Jungle"
drops completely the narrative of life
In the stockyards and plunges Into the
story of how Jurgls Is led Into a coterie
of Socialists; how he Imbibed their
principles, and how they promulgated
these principles.
(This Is a brief synopsis of the last
five chapters.)
Poor Jurgls was now an outcast and
a' tramp once more. Ho was crippled
—as literally crippled as any wild ani
mal which had lost Its claws. Ho
could no longer command a Job when
he wanted It; he could no longer steal
with Impunity.
And also he labored under another
handicap now. When he had been out
of work before he had been content
If he could sleep In a doorway or un
der a truck out of the rain, and If he
could get 15 ’cents a day for saloon
lunches. But now he desired all sorts
of other things, and suffered because
he had to do without them. He must
have a drink now and then, a drink
for Its own sake and apart from the
food that came with U.
Jurgls became once more a besieger
of factory gates. But never since he
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had been In Chicago had he stood less
chance of getting a Job than Just then.
At the end of about ten days he had
only a few pennies left; and he hac!
not yet found a Job—not oven a chance
to carry a satchel. Raw, naked terror
posaesed him. He was going to die of
‘ ' " alk, begging for
hunger! He would wi
work, until he was exhausted. Every'
where he went there were hundreds of
othen like him; everywhere was the
sight of plenty—and th* merciless hand
of authority waving them away. There
IS one kind of prison where the man Is
behind bars, and everything that he
desires Is outside; and there Is an
other kind where the things are be
hind bars and the man Is outside.
Down to his last quarter, Jurgls took
to living on stale bread, which tha
bakers sold at a reduced price, and
lived for two days upon & cabbage
which he snatched from a stall.
One night he was given a quarter
by an old lady for carrying her bun
dles and he obtained a meal which
stuffed his skin as tight as a football,
afterward finding himself In a hall
where Senator Spsreehanka was ex-
f ilainlng the system of protection, an
ngenlous device whereby the working
man permitted the manufacturer to
charge him high prices. In order that
he might receive higher wages; thus
taking his money out of his pocket
with one hand and putting a part of It
back with the other. To the senator
this unique arrangement had somehow
become Identified with the higher verl
ties of the universe.
Singular as It may seem, Jurgls was
making a desperate effort to compre
hend the extent of American prosper
ity. The reason was that he wanted
to keep awake. But he had eaten such
a big dinner, and the room was so
warm, Jurgls began to snore; one of
hie neighbors called a policeman and
he was thrown out.
In the street, Jurgls caught sight of
a well-dressed woman. It was Alena
Jasaltyte, who had been the belle of his
wedding feast!
Alena gave Jurgls the address
Marlja, a number on Clark street, and
he set out to find her. While waiting
In the hall, there was a cry of “Po
lice!’’ and In the contusion Jurgls
comes upon Marlja. Every one In the
house was arrested, but the magistrate
frees Jurgls next morning, and he wan
ders post tha hall from which he had
been ejected for snoring during Sena
tor Spareahanks' speech.
Another meeting was In progress,
and Jurgls entered, to find that It was
held by Socialists. After th* speaking
he ventured to thank the lecturer for
his address and waa Introduced t<
Ostiinskl. a little tailor, who took Jur
gls to his room nnd talked to him for
hours of the Socialist movement
To Jurgls the packers had been
equivalent to fate: Ostrlnskl showed
him that they were the beef trust. It
waa a monster devouring with a thou
sand mouths, trampling with a thou
sand hoofs; It was the Great Butcher
—It was the spirit of capitalism made
flesh. Bribery and corruption were Its
everyday methods. In Chicago the city
government was simply one of Its
branch offices; It stole billions of gal
lons of city water openly; It dictated
to the courts the sentences of disor
derly strikers; It forbade the mayor
to enforce the building laws against it.
In the national capital It had power to
prevent Inspection of Its product, and
to falsify government reports; It vio
lated the rebate laws, and when an In
vestigation was threatened It burned
Its books and sent Its criminal agents
out of the country.
It had forced the price of cattle so
low as to destroy the stock raising In
dustry, an occupation Upon which whola
states existed! It had ruined thou
sands of butchers who had refused to
handle Its products. It divided the
country Into districts, and fixed the
price of meat In all of them; and It
owned all the refrigerator cars, and
levied an enormous tribute upon all
poultry and eggs and fruit and vegeta
bles. With the Billions of dollars a
week that poured In upon It, It was
reaching out for the control of other
Interests, railroad and trolley lines, gas
nnil nlsfitHd llspht frsnrhlsss—It
and electric light franchises—It alrea?,
owned the grain and leather business
of the country.
After breakfast with Ostrlnskl, Jur
gls went home to Elsbleta and began
the hunt for work, soon getting a Job
as porter In a small hotel kept by
"Tommy” Hinds, a leader In the So
cialist party. Here many Western cat
tlemen were accustomed to stay, and
Hinds would get them around him In
the lobby and paint little pictures of
■The System.”
‘See here,” he would eay In the midst
of an argument, 'T’ve got a fellow right
here who's worked there and seen ev
ery bit of It.” Gradually Jurgls found
out what was wanted, and he would
stand up and speak, his piece with en
thusiasm, and when Jurgls would give
the formula for "potted ham” or tell
about the condemned hogs that were
dropped Into th* "destructfcrs” at the
top and taken out again at the bottom,
to be shipped Info alibi
_ _ ther state and
made Into lard. Hinds would bang his
knee and cry, "Do you think a man
could make up a thing like that?”
And when the victim would say that
the whole country was getting stirred
up. that tha newspapers were full of
denunciations of the beef trust, and the
f ovemment taking action against it,
'ommy Hinds had a knockout blow all,
ready. "Yes,” he wosld say, "all that
la true—but what do you suppose Is
the reason for It. Are you foolish
enoflgh to believe that It Is done for
the public? There are other trusts In
the country Just as Illegal and extor
tionate as the beef trust; there Is th*
.coal trust, that freeses the poor In
• winter; there Is the steel trust, that
doubles the pries of every nail In your
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shoes'; there Is the oil trust, that keeps
you from reading at night—and why ilo
you suppose It Is that all the fury Is
directed against the beef trust?
And when to this the victim would
reply that there was clamor enough
over the oil trust the other would con
tinue; "Ten years ago Henry D.
Lloyd told all the truth about the
Standard Oil Company In his ‘Wealth
Versus Commonwealth,' and the book
was allowed to die, and you hardly
w IMS Bliuniu IU UIC, UIIU J UU IIUIUIJ
ever hear of It. And now, why Is It all
so different with the beef trust?"
Here the other would generally admit
that he was stuck, and Tommy Hinds
would explain to him. "It is the rail
road trust that runs your state govern
ment, wherever you live, and that runs'
the United States senate. And all of
the trusts that I -have named are rail
road trusts—save only the beef trust
The beef trust has defied the railroads
—It Is plundering them day by day
tjirouch the private car; and so the
publ)c Is roused to fury, and the gov
ernment goes'on the warpath.
“And you poor common people watch
and applaud the job, and think it’s all
done for you, and never dream that It
la really the grand climax of the cen
tury-long battle of commercial compe
tition—the Anal death-grapple of th*
chiefs of the beef trust and Standard
Oil for the prise of the master}' and
ownership of the United State, of
America!”
After an Ineffectual effort to Indues
Marlja to abandon the life she was
leading In the house on Clark street
Jurgls settled down to work nnd the
constant study of Socialism, so that
when the night of the election came
around he was one of the most excited
In the group receiving the returns of
the party, and hts story ends, as an
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