The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (easy to read books for adults list TXT) 📕

the country tonight the old party politicians are studying this vote, and setting their sails by it; and nowhere will they be quicker or more cunning than here in our own city. Fifty thousand Socialist votes in Chicago means a municipal-ownership Democracy in the spring! And then they will fool the voters once more, and all the powers of plunder and corruption will be swept into office again! But whatever they may do when they get in, there is one thing they will not do, and that will be the thing for which they were elected! They will not give the people of our city municipal ownership⁠—they will not mean to do it, they will not try to do it; all that they will do is give our party in Chicago the greatest opportunity that has ever come to Socialism in America! We shall have the sham reformers self-stultified and self-convicted; we shall have the radical Democracy left without a lie with which to cover its nakedness! And then will begin the rush that will never be checked, the tide that will never turn till it has reached its flood⁠—that will be irresistible, overwhelming⁠—the rallying of the outraged workingmen of Chicago to our standard! And we shall organize them, we shall drill them, we shall marshal them for the victory! We shall bear down the opposition, we shall sweep it before us⁠—and Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours!!” Endnotes

Go! Go! Close the door! ↩

Z. Graiczunas, Entertainment garden. Wine. Schnapps. ↩

Author’s Note: Pronounced Yoorghis. ↩

Come here! Faster! ↩

Goodbye, my dearest flower;
Goodbye to my happiness too. As for me, the unfortunate,
I see⁠—The Highest has decided
that I’m to live alone in this world, in misery.

↩

Uncle. ↩

Stop! What’s wrong with you? ↩

Mister. ↩

Go away! ↩

Wait! Out of the way! ↩

Mrs. ↩

Weak. ↩

Guts. Poker. Broom. ↩

Tomorrow! In the morning! Seven! ↩

God! ↩

Have mercy! ↩

Woe is me! ↩

Here! Here! ↩

Author’s Note: “Rules and Regulations for the Inspection of Live Stock and their Products.” United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industries, Order No. 125:⁠—

Section 1. Proprietors of slaughterhouses, canning, salting, packing, or rendering establishments engaged in the slaughtering of cattle, sheep, or swine, or the packing of any of their products, the carcasses or products of which are to become subjects of interstate or foreign commerce, shall make application to the Secretary of Agriculture for inspection of said animals and their products.⁠ ⁠…

Section 15. Such rejected or condemned animals shall at once be removed by the owners from the pens containing animals which have been inspected and found to be free from disease and fit for human food, and shall be disposed of in accordance with the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the state and municipality in which said rejected or condemned animals are located.⁠ ⁠…

Section 25. A microscopic examination for trichinæ shall be made of all swine products exported to countries requiring such examination. No microscopic examination will be made of hogs slaughtered for interstate trade, but this examination shall be confined to those intended for the export trade. ↩

Wait! ↩

You’re my little heart. ↩

Wait! ↩

Wait! You’re my little heart! ↩

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The Jungle
was published in 1906 by
Upton Sinclair.

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