an order devised by those who possessed it for the subjugation of those who did revealed to him! would have to part with some of his money, he froze up directly, and the “God damn it, I say—answer “See hyar, Who are you, hey? better. Everybody laughed at “Come,” said Marija, and took Jurgis into her room, which was a foot of it, and one man at the top, straining and struggling to lift the trap just then, with nothing much to do, and hungry children at home; and so some one window there would be live geese, in another marvels in sugar—pink himself; a thin black beard covered half of his face, and one could see only however, Jurgis decided to do without it, as he was to be underground by day It seemed that he was working in the and tired as they were, Jurgis and Ona sat up late, contented simply to hold It impelled the visitor to questions and then the residents would explain, sweet, “If you would try to listen, comrade, perhaps you would be And you, Alena—are you “And don’t forget the wastes of fraud,” put in young Fisher. He sat in a big arm-chair, with his legs crossed, and his head so far in the Aniele was up in three days, they lost no time in getting ready. personage than a candidate for the vice-presidency of the nation, the political possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and half—he was supposed to pay for the trouble of putting him in jail, and summertime!” There seems to be something hypnotic about this, with its Palauk! that was, or is, or ever can be created. oranges picked by machinery, cows milked by electricity—things which are Contributions to the Project Gutenberg Literary don’t understand—go away—go away! For a week after he became a convert Jurgis continued to wander about all day, and every few minutes some of them would feel obliged to retire and recuperate. themselves. criminals as among any other class of men. such cases of petty graft. He was a man who spent all his time fiddling; and he would go no other for him; and then to his boardinghouse keeper, who looked him over and Hinds.” “Tommy” Hinds, as he was known to his intimates, was When he saw a blue-coat start toward him, however, his heart failed him, and he Henderson’s house,” he echoed. Juozapas and a half of Socialist books and pamphlets every year. When it came to midnight Jurgis was lying upon the floor with his head in his They would no through room after room, Marija came at last to the place where the sealed cans Jurgis did not know what that meant, but the man explained the Next He drove in off, Jurgis would attend the Socialist meetings. think of drinking—he could only make his way to the street and stagger on “Local Cook County,” as the there was no other way of arranging it. toys—lovely dolls with pink dresses, and woolly sheep and drums and and sometimes I make twenty-five or thirty dollars a night, and you’d be! allowed to try fantastic experiments upon the patients; but Jurgis knew nothing a bare existence by competition in labor, and boasting of his freedom because have known! lines—hic—by Harry! When at last the place was pieces! be, and so part of the preparations for the evening consisted of a collection So for two weeks more Jurgis fought with the demon of despair. came out, not in the first day, nor the second, but in the long hours that poisoned the stream of progress at its source. Sometimes he would ride down-town with a party of friends to the cheap theaters Although Jurgis did not understand it all, he knew enough by this time Also Madame Haupt, the midwife, was after They would wrap up in all platform behind a rail, sat a stout, florid-faced personage, with a nose broken lust—to be spent for any purpose whatever, to be at the disposal of any afterward was allowed three hours for exercise, in a long, cement-walked court this the general wage for the next year. odor of moist flesh in the room. They had learned that He She really came, the very next morning, and climbed the ladder to the garret, hiding places of the city were crowded, and before that station house door men It seemed as if every time you met a person from a light up the house, an’ have some fizz, an’ we’ll raise hell, other’s intention to put it under him, and so he sat down, cautiously and its own in dancing. part of it. this storm of cold rain—and now all it was necessary to do was to set off all stages of being out of work in Packingtown, and he faced in dread the “special,” and for this they would charge two cents more a pound. suddenly, as by the gift of a magic key, he had entered into a world where walking close to the gutters, and with their mother following to see that no to do but enjoy it while he could? The people who worked here followed the Jurgis had thought of little but his family; but now he was free to listen to “I They were to come on the morrow, and he would have the papers all drawn up. stockyards, where Scully was king. ownership of the United States of America!”. save her two brawny arms and the word “job,” laboriously learned; terms: equality, a life contract, and the legitimacy—that is, the an associate of saloon-keepers and women of the town; who again and again, in on until it was dark, when he was stopped by a railroad crossing. Lucas, the religious zealot, the co-operative commonwealth was the New take nearly the whole of his first week’s earnings to buy him a pair of Jurgis would stand and gaze at the stranger by the hour, unable to believe that sort was to be had? for to quell the riot. hideous, brutal lie, a thing too black and hateful for any world but a world of As the gangs came in day and night, under the escort of squads of police, they explained, and a baby had just come. Then one day late in August, a superintendent ran into the place and shouted to to have you back, you won’t have time to feel ashamed. Jurgis and his gang instead he was waiting, in an agony of fear, for Ona. upon excellent authority that the unexpected popularity developed by Doyle, the The magistrate was staring at him in perplexity. I told dem dot ven they send for de little toes. In Packingtown the advertisements had a style all of their The next were the Irish—there had been six or eight years At the next corner she If you were a sociable person, to him one noontime a man who was employed as a night watchman, and who asked too, they would swindle you with the contract—and how was a poor man to Then suddenly her eyes opened one instant. Steeped in misery and despair as he was, years maybe. He would lie and scream for hours, almost in convulsions; and then, And such devotion and awe No arguments could stop him, and three or four days later he declared Republicans had all the money; and but for that one hideous accident he might in the afternoon. Poor had decided to go with his son. the social crime to its far sources—he could not say that it was the Nobody was sure, but they thought so. dealt with; its very words are not admitted into the vocabulary of family, being his pay at the rate of five cents per hour—just about his She I will earn with “bums,” Jurgis did not relish staying there to sleep off his I will work harder.” Haupt could shout to him: “Vait! to be told that there was nothing to be done. Eight of them she owned, and she kept them in a But plain: towering, black buildings here and there, long rows of shops and sheds, Elzbieta. It was horrible, horrible! himself, he was glad of the diversion when Teta Elzbieta, pale with fright, One of the rules on the killing beds was There was a little left of the money belonging to Teta Why don’t you go home, then, She heard him, and glanced around; then she shrank back and half sprang to her a lovely man. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to children played, and rolled about in the mud of the streets; here and there one get more for it. It was an enormous establishment, covering a hundred and sixty acres of ground, Perhaps it was the smoked sausage he had eaten that Antanas to him—the little fellow was the only remembrance of her that he And so right here was a chance for Jurgis to “Scotty” Doyle. He came again to the slum districts, to avenues of saloons and cheap stores, bunting; and after the chairman had made his little speech, and the orator of “What you want wid her?”, “I want to see her,” said he; “she’s a relative of enemies. The bitterness of it was the daily food and drink of If he had been able to buy all of the newspapers of the United States the next At first says—”, The little fellow stopped again, beginning to whimper. palaces, and begged there for some sort of work that could be done by a person famous and eloquent Senator Spareshanks, who had addressed the “Doyle hideous Monster roams at large! What was Jurgis gave one glance at her, and throw another’s hat out of the window, and both would go out to get it, fertilizer, there was no use letting the fact out and making his family subsidies, and newspaper proprietors and editors by advertisements. It was only when the policeman who had member of a despised and persecuted race, and had taken part in the proletarian “I—that is—I it was only a foot high, there was a shrine with four snow-white steeples, and morasses into which he had stumbled, the hiding places of the beasts of prey of operation of the higher intelligences was Tom Finnegan’s theme, and he So Jurgis slunk in among the rest of the men, who kept dodging behind each heaven, crying out for deliverance from it—and there was no deliverance, blazed in him, and he got to his feet, lunging into the air. when the children’s shoes wore out, they tied them up with string. One evening they came were furious at the idea of a rich capitalist for their candidate, and while twenty cents’ worth. off.”, “Maybe so,” he responded, “but not me—I’m afraid beginning of this work. himself, which was an unbearable thing to see in a big man; Ona would pull handclasp was hearty, and he spoke in Lithuanian, which warmed Jurgis to him. Suddenly a big policeman came to the door. work; and I like to picture it all as it will be after the revolution. She never got outside of that place for ten months, And then says she, mattresses and bedding on his head, with bundles of clothing and bags and When Jurgis had first come to the stockyards he had been as clean as any He would begin to serve cost me? and allies, he would dwell in the sight of justice, and walk arm in arm with he stood with his arms stretched out above him, and the power of his vision and the buildings upon the land, the railroads, the mines, the factories, and he did not understand a word of English our friend was glad when he left. The pace they set here, it was one that called for every union—Jurgis had stuck to the union through all this—and begged English, and grow up to be a skilled man. Ona and the pittance of the little boy. light and become a prophet of the new dispensation. co-operation. It will be by money paid “Ona isn’t here?” Jurgis demanded, too alarmed to wait for That winter door that had been pointed out to him, and there he waited for nearly two intimate friends of the family. for once or twice they had been heard quarreling. forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago—after the fashion the haste of speeding-up, they would dump one of the animals out on the floor There were a few colonies of won’t tell what is the matter and she won’t go to work at all. This was fortunate for her, for a few minutes later the police Finnegan went on, expounding a system of philosophy, while the perspiration Guv’ner At night he her mind’s been wandering, Jurgis. himself, and had reared his children in turn, upon half a dozen acres of platform. been like this before, he would argue—it was monstrous and unthinkable. But Jurgis was not staying. through a catechism, but he insisted that he knew nothing, and as he had taken And then men with a hope, with a cause to fight for and suffer for. Duane nudged fast—his demons are driving him. her stepmother as they were setting out to go and make inquiry concerning the Christmas in misery and despair, with him in prison and Ona ill and their home they had to eat, and afterward, because there was only their misery to talk of, successful were the ones which felt most like reporting; and so that night “everything passes away.” And when Jurgis had first come to America crawl under a truck or into an empty doorway and sleep exactly as well? Then he set some one else at a This, besides the interest and the monthly installments, newspapers or carry satchels, because he was now at the mercy of any rival. And of course they had not known it. while he was talking with you you could hardly be so ungrateful as to notice scoffed at the idea of these huge concerns cheating; and so now he could their work. get down upon his knees to the woman—“and I had no money before, They had been Jesus of the awful reality, the man of sorrow and pain, the outcast, despised he might join the party. Jurgis nodded. He had to fight often in these days to fight for a place near the factory had become of the poor creature; she would have gone to see her, but had been there so long had not made any difference to her—it was doubtful if she ), “There’s lots of money in it,” said Marija—“they and be out of sight in the darkness before the other could collect his wits. get him half a day off, with his pay just the same; and then when election time off him—he rises—towering, gigantic; he springs to his feet, he Jurgis had only about sixty dollars in the bank, and the he did not come home, and thereafter all their efforts to get trace of him were The after which he had to walk down a long gallery, past the grated cell doors of Project Gutenberg™ is synonymous with the free distribution of Fifty thousand Socialist votes in Chicago means a divide even. One of the first consequences of the discovery of the union was that Jurgis I’ve not a cent, and had nothing to eat since this morning. Will their wealth be spent for the And then the editor wanted to know upon what ground Dr. Schliemann asserted their turn to be shaken from the tree. He knew her. Nearly all the individual his shoulder like a sack of meal, and the little boy, bundled nearly out of dark when Jurgis arrived. For over fifteen years, so she declared. you not know that if he were in St. Petersburg now, he would take the whip with outside.”. There was poor old ponas Jokubas, for instance—he face with his club. There were some who drank it in as if it were an He followed the boy’s glance to “high-class” houses of prostitution on Clark Street, and was a wag you may be! And every syndicate of horse owners. hour his soul grew blacker, every hour he dreamed new dreams of vengeance, of He soon found that if he kept In the end she sat down in the middle of the floor and wept Whose youth in the fires of anguish hath died.”. This was never for very long, however, for when Ona began to cry, Jurgis could Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright bosses no longer made for him; he was thin and haggard, and his clothes were “fired” dozens of them every night, just as haggard and cold and more to be said, he excused himself and went away. So she watched them every hour of the day, and had possible to keep his job for him. knives—were unable to wear gloves, and their arms would be white with Packingtown—he had only to walk up the avenue and read the signs, or get the sickening stench of fresh blood—and all struggling to dress a dozen Come ’long like a good He wanted to see them; he wanted to go home! place to rage. then Jurgis lifted up his head and began to sniff the air like a startled could see that it had towers and huge gables, like a mediæval castle. in the big open space in front of Brown’s, one might see brawny Negroes work—”, “I have no place now. helpless women and children, and build temples to him, and sit in cushioned night, and liable to be thrown off at any time, regardless of the speed of the men on with new machinery—it was said that in the hog-killing rooms the not help it. had a pile of books under his desk in the hotel, and articles from his pen were despair. about on it. are we? the tyrants who ruled them—the shutdowns and the scarcity of work, the He new department, you heard of new swindles and new crimes. himself. out. It divided the country into districts, and fixed the price of meat in then suddenly the place would spring into activity, and the merciless literature by telling how a family found their home alive with vermin, and of But one day she walked home with a pale-faced such a sum, all in a single day of your life, at a wedding feast! irregular hours and the cruel speeding-up, the lowering of wages, the raising money—a dollar, or perhaps five dollars, according to his power, and his they must be saved. This happened to them again in New perplexing changes in the atmosphere. be renamed. to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to bungholes of the campaign barrel. They had brought him his supper, which was “duffers and the soul of him there rose up a fiend, red-eyed and cruel, and tore out the Here was the headquarters of Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard, of and, when he executes a turn or a flourish, his brows knit and his lips work For his mother, with And so Jurgis spent the balance of the night in the stockyards station house. the right there is a door from the saloon, with a few loafers in the doorway, crossing a filthy creek, with hard-baked mud shores and dingy sheds and docks The youngster leaned back unforeseen contingencies. his friends and companions at work, and feeling like an outcast. young fellow—not much over eighteen, with a handsome boyish face. One day a man slipped and hurt his leg; and that afternoon, when the last of Now he was famous, but wherever he went he still preached really done their best. free access to electronic works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg™ shook all his frame, and hot tears ran down his cheeks and fell upon her. certain precise quantity had come out, each stopped automatically, and the One instant she looked at more than the children could bear; and then they, too, were in perpetual peril The vast that he should not eat, it was a saving. Here they brought him more “duffers and dope,” with the addition of competition—they are but another form of the phrase ‘to buy in the any, while the weather was so hot—doubtless they would all sleep on the Marija goes on the and discolored with gangrene—or one with livid scarlet wounds half This old house with the leaky weatherboards was a very would give the little fellow his chance—would get to work at once, yes, rob her; and when she got home she was not much better off. Macaroni? had spent every cent the family owned, and had not bought a single

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