Goose-step”; which means ten thousand possible errors. I wish I could
announce that I scored a hundred per cent exactness. I set out to do
that in “The Brass Check,” but it couldn’t be done. I have to rely upon
many other people for my information, and it is inevitable that slips
should be made by some of these; also, it is necessary to type each
manuscript several times—and after that comes the printer and his
“devil,” and three sets of proofs to be read. I am told that some pious
society in England offered a reward of a thousand pounds for an edition
of the Bible without a typographical error; but the reward has not yet
been claimed.
I begin with my own blunders. There exists in our national capital an
institution called the Catholic University of America; also, in the same
place, a Methodist institution called American University. It so
happened that I did not know of the latter institution, but assumed that
“American University” was an every-day name for the Catholic University
of America. As soon as “The Goose-step” appeared, Father John A. Ryan
wrote me a note, calling attention to my error, which was corrected in
the second edition. This was my most serious slip—and it is amusing to
note that it was not caught in a single one of the several hundred
reviews I have read!
The most important error which the critics did catch was that referring
to Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During a
period of a few years there existed an alliance between these two
institutions; and in my manuscript I had referred to M. I. T. as “until
recently a part of Harvard.” My Harvard chapters were revised by at
least a score of Harvard professors, alumni and students, but only at
the last moment was this phrase questioned, by an M. I. T. student,
Phillip Herrick, son of Robert Herrick, who happened to call upon me. I
had him telegraph to the authorities at M. I. T., and get me by
telegraph a statement of the exact relationship. Upon that basis I put
into the proofs of the book, pages 80-81, a footnote giving the facts.
But, alas, I overlooked the fact that the phrase, “until recently a part
of Harvard,” occurred in two places in the manuscript; there were about
seven hundred pages of this manuscript, and it was hard to remember
every word. I did not correct the other place—and so Harvard and M. I.
T. had an error upon which to base a whole indictment of “The
Goose-step”! The “Technology Review,” organ of M. I. T., even took up
the fact that I put my corrected statement in a footnote; “for a
technical reason of Sinclair’s own”—which sounds very mysterious and
wicked! The fact was that I was making corrections in the proofs, and it
was cheaper to slip in a footnote than to have a paragraph reset.
Mr. John Macy made strenuous use of this slip in his review of “The
Goose-step” in the “Nation.” Mr. Macy dealt with the book “as a friend,”
and was pained to discover that it was “cluttered with misstatements and
sophomoric conceit.” And pray, how many instances of misstatement would
you think it takes to make a “cluttering”? It took precisely one—this
Harvard-M. I. T. detail!
As to my “sophomoric conceit” Mr. Macy quoted from “The Goose-step”
(page 11): “In the course of the next year I read all the standard
French classics.” He pictured Brander Matthews answering, with a
superior smile: “My dear young man, a born Frenchman could not read all
the standard French classics in ten years.” Professor Matthews would
love to say something incisive like that; but possibly he would be
honest enough to mention, what my context makes plain, that I was
referring to “standard French classics” as taught in undergraduate
language courses at Columbia, and not to standard French classics as
understood by “a born Frenchman.”
Mr. Macy was also troubled by the “pathetically absurd egotism” of my
sentence on page 17: “I was as much alone in the world as Shelley a
hundred years before me.” Here is a case of suppression of the context,
so flagrant as to be beyond excuse. In the passage in question I was
criticizing the education I had received from my college and university,
on the ground that it had taught me nothing about the modern Socialist
movement, to which the rest of my life was to be devoted. I took two
whole paragraphs to explain this in detail. The first two sentences were
as follows: “Most significant of all to me personally, I was unaware
that the modern revolutionary movement existed. I was all ready for it,
but I was as much alone in the world as Shelley a hundred years before
me.” Is not the meaning of that statement plain—that “I _felt myself_ as
much alone in the world,” etc.? Of course, I wasn’t really “alone in the
world,” for my millions of Socialist comrades existed, and in the rest
of the two paragraphs I tell how I found them. How came it that Mr.
Macy, indicting “The Goose-step” for being “cluttered with
misstatements,” could bring himself to suppress one half a sentence, and
thus obscure its meaning?
Fourth and last of this critic’s specifications: “And even his
unverifiable statistics: ‘Eighty-five per cent of college and university
professors are dissatisfied with being managed by floorwalkers.’ Why not
sixty-nine per cent or ninety-three per cent?” The answer to this is
found on page 55 of “The Goose-step,” referring to Professor Cattell at
Columbia University: “In 1913 he published a book on ‘University
Control,’ in which he demonstrated that eighty-five per cent of the
members of college and university faculties are dissatisfied with the
present system of the management of scholars by business men.” The same
matter is discussed more at length on page 401: “Three hundred leading
men were consulted, and out of these, eighty-five per cent agreed that
the present arrangements for the government of colleges are
unsatisfactory.” Now, if Professor Cattell’s questionnaire had revealed
that sixty-nine per cent were dissatisfied, or ninety-three per cent, I
should have given this figure. As it was, I gave eighty-five per cent,
as Professor Cattell records it in his book.
Also, my respects to Mr. Charles Merz, who gave a page and
three-quarters to kidding “The Goose-step” in the “New Republic.” Mr.
Merz would be disappointed if I passed him over; he says: “There is a
tradition that whoever takes issue with Mr. Sinclair about one of his
own books is certain to be pounced upon, in turn, by an eagerly
dissenting author.” Mr. Merz has a lot of fun calling me Captain
Parklebury Todd:
/* He couldn’t walk into a room Without ejaculating “Boom!” Which
startled ladies greatly. */
This is good fun, and the fact that in the course of it Mr. Merz admits
my entire contention makes it easy for me to share the laughter. Mr.
Merz thinks it natural and inevitable “that able and successful
capitalists ordinarily control the universities produced by capitalism.”
Of course, Mr. Merz; you know it, and I know it—and a lot of other
people know it, since “The Goose-step” has been passed about in
colleges.
Mr. Merz had one serious objection—that in fifty-six cases I failed to
name sources of information. He doesn’t tell you in how many cases I
_did_ name sources of information; and it seems to me that in fairness
the two figures should have been put side by side. I can only say that I
named my sources in every case where I was permitted to name them; and I
suppressed them in every case where I had pledged my word to do so. Mr.
Merz complains that in some cases I do not even name my “villains”; and
again I think he ought to count up the “villains” I _do_ name. Let me
tell him, in strict confidence: I think I take more risks of libel suits
than any other man in America; but there is a limit to the risks I am
willing to run. I never make a statement unless I feel sure it is the
truth, but I frequently make statements which cause great distress to
friends who happen to be lawyers. As this book goes to press, my wife
sends me a special delivery letter from one of these gentlemen: “Of
course, if Upton _wants_ to go to jail, this is a good way to break
in”—and so on.
In the case of “The Brass Check,” one of the most prominent corporation
lawyers in the United States read the manuscript, and told me there were
fifty criminal libels in it, and not less than a thousand civil
suits—unless I could prove my charges. Right now I am on the point of
going over “The Goslings,” for the last time before the manuscript goes
to the printer; and in a hundred different places I shall stop with my
pencil in the air, and ponder the question: shall I leave in this name,
or shall I cut it out? And in each case there will be a series of
guesses: what will be in this “villain’s” mind? How much has he done,
and how much will he think I know? And if it came to a show-down, would
this professor or that teacher stand by me? And would I have to travel
to Minnesota, or to Massachusetts, or to Texas to defend a libel suit?
And where would I get the money? And how would my poor wife stand the
ordeal? You see, Mr. Merz, the rôle of Captain Parklebury Todd is a lot
more complicated than you realize; there is really more to it than just
walking into a room and ejaculating “Boom!”
To come back to the confessions of myself, my secretaries, and my
printer and his “devil”: Somebody—I don’t know who it was—played a trick
on my Vassar story, taking one of the letters of the Y. W. C. A. and
turning it upside down; which brought a worried communication from the
president of that institution, asking if I could possibly be under the
impression that it was co-educational. (I wasn’t!) But I made several
small slips. I got one professor’s initial wrong; I made Finley J.
Shepard a lawyer as well as a railroad official; I made Frank B. Leland,
Detroit banker, a brother to the motor-magnate, and confused Ogden L.
Mills with his grandfather, D. Ogden Mills. I have a letter from Judge
Lindsey, telling me that some high-up educator in Denver proved “The
Goose-step” an unreliable book by the fact that I stated “that J. P.
Morgan was buried from Trinity Church, when as a matter of fact he was
buried from St. George’s Church!”
In this case I seem to be, but really am not, guilty. In “The
Goose-step,” page 21, I was drawing a humorous picture of the
interlocking directorates, and how they work. I imagined Justice
Brandeis, in his account of these directorates, going from railroads and
steel and coal and telegraphs, to such things as hospitals and churches
and universities. “He ought to picture Mr. Morgan dying, and being
buried from Trinity Church, in which several of his partners are
vestrymen.” Elsewhere I have described Trinity Church as the “Church of
J. P. Morgan & Company”—and this not merely because of its supply of
Morgan vestrymen, but because of the whole spirit of the institution is
Morgan. I was aware that Mr. Morgan himself had his own church, for many
times in my boyhood I attended it, and saw the old wild boar of Wall
Street passing the collection plate.
Also, I made some statements concerning Delaware, and the benevolent
feudalism which the du Ponts have set up in the education of that state.
My statements were disputed by an elderly gentleman, formerly connected
with Delaware College, and having a reputation as a liberal. On the
other hand, the statements were strenuously sustained by the two people
who had given me the information, and who have reputations as
hard-fighting radicals. Not being able to visit Delaware and make a
thorough investigation, I cut these paragraphs from the second edition
of “The Goose-step.”
No book of mine can be published nowadays without a report upon the
latest activities of Professor James Melvin Lee, director of the
Department of Journalism at the University of Jabbergrab. I gave
Professor Lee a whole chapter in “The Goose-step,” explaining what a
peculiar antagonist he is—you supply him with evidence, and he pays no
heed to it, but goes right on clamoring for the same evidence. Among
many cases, I listed the following detail:
Thus, to a single anecdote of Gaylord Wilshire being misrepresented by
the Associated Press, Professor Lee devoted three paragraphs in the
“Globe,” demanding at great length the names of the newspapers and the
dates; I supplied him with the names and dates of two newspapers—but
to no result that I could discover.
Soon after “The Goose-step” came out I began receiving letters from
college professors and others, asking for the names and dates of these
two newspapers. So I knew that Professor Lee must be up to his old
trick! And sure enough, there came a letter from John Haynes Holmes,
stating that Professor Lee persisted in arguing with him concerning my
truthfulness, and was now basing his case upon the fact that in “The
Goose-step” I stated that I had furnished him with the names and dates
of two newspapers dealing with the Wilshire story—whereas I had done
nothing of the sort. Dr. Holmes requested that I would be so good as to
settle the matter by advising him when and how I had supplied these
names and dates to Professor Lee.
This issue had come up during my controversy with Professor Lee in New
York “Evening Globe,” mentioned in “The Goose-step,” pages 324-6. The
conduct of this controversy was as follows: Professor Lee submitted his
first article to the “Globe,” and either sent me a copy, or the “Globe”
sent me a copy. I then wrote my reply, and either sent a copy to
Professor Lee, or the “Globe” sent it. Each of us studied the other’s
arguments in detail, trying to pick flaws therein. I presume therefore I
may fairly assume that Professor Lee read my three articles! One of
these three articles bears the date of Thursday, August 4, 1921, and in
it occurs the following:
IN THE MATTER OF WILSHIRE
Professor Lee asks about the dates of the story which the Associated
Press sent out to the effect that Gaylord Wilshire had been prevented
from speaking in York, Pa., by a mob, when, as a matter of fact, he
was never in this city. Professor Lee makes three paragraphs out of
this one demand. It happens that Wilshire is away from home. I have
searched his house, but cannot find the volume of “Wilshire’s
Magazine” for 1901. Maybe this volume is in the New York Public
Library or in the Congressional Library. Meantime I can furnish
Professor Lee with two references—the Philadelphia “North American”
for Sept. 9, 1901, and the Los Angeles “Express” for the same date.
If you will consult the second edition of “The Goose-step,” you will
find that on page 309 I have added in parentheses the words, “A joke.”
This has to do with Mr. Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s adventures at Cornell:
“When he asked to see the Dante collection, they took him to inspect an
electric manure sprayer.” Several reviewers of “The Goose-step” took
occasion solemnly to suspect that in this anecdote Van Loon must have
been “spoofing” me! Not being supposed to have a sense of humor myself,
I am resolved that in future, whenever I do any “spoofing,” or allow
anybody else to do any “spoofing,” I will follow the precedent of
Artemus Ward, and put in the explanation: “This is a goak.”
Another bit of comedy: In my jesting at Mr. Rockefeller’s University of
Chicago, I wrote: “They are sensitive on the subject of petroleum at the
university; they blush at the mention of the word, and do not admit the
conventional book-plates showing the lamp of knowledge.” This was a pure
piece of phantasy on my part; some more “spoofing,” in short. But, lo
and behold, soon after “The Goose-step” was out, came a letter from a
former student, as follows: “One fact you got, Lord knows how, I got it
straight from Dean Robertson (in an address in chapel); it is a matter
of the rejection of the oil lamp as a symbol in the ‘Coat of Arms’ of
the University.”
Postscript: As this book goes to press, Vassar College makes the
answer to “The Goose-step” which really pleases me. A formal “statute
of instruction” is issued, granting to all teachers “complete freedom
of research, instruction and utterance upon matters of opinion.”
CHAPTER LXXXIX
THE CALL TO ACTION
I have now said my say, concerning both colleges and schools. I have
given two years to the subject, have written nearly four hundred
thousand words on it—and these words are the truth to the best of my
ability. The problem is now up to the American people, and especially to
the rank and file of school teachers and college professors; the tens of
thousands of devoted men and women who are giving their undivided
thought to a glorious ideal—the delivering of every child in a whole
nation from the curse and enslavement of ignorance.
This great cause has many enemies—and some of these enemies will try to
use my work to spread distrust of education, and cut down the money
supplies of both colleges and schools. I wish to state explicitly that
the purpose of my study is the very opposite of this; I would have the
American people devote to this cause ten times the money they now
devote—I would have them give all that is given, so that education may
be free from the charity of the rich. But I want them, while giving
their money, to give also their time; to study the schools and school
problems, and see that their money is honestly spent for the children,
and that educational policies are in the hands of men and women who love
the children, and believe in freedom and enlightenment—not, as so often
at present, in the hands of intriguing politicians, and the sycophants
and hirelings of vested greed. The aim of my two books is to set our
educators free from this control of selfish private interest; to awaken
them to their position in a society which is ruled by organized
exploitation.
When you talk with school and college administrators, you discover that
the thing they crave above all other things is “harmony.” Everyone in
the system must be loyal, everyone must co-operate, there must be an
attitude of cheerfulness; in short, the school teacher and the college
professor must comply with the formula which was frequent in the want
advertisements of “domestics” in the days of my boyhood: “willing and
obliging.” Manifestly, the program I have laid out in this book does not
make for harmony—at least, not right away. If it would not sound too
much like a Bolshevik utterance, I would say to the educator: “Think not
that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a
sword. For I am come to set the teacher at variance against the
superintendent, and the professor against the president, and the
educator against the board of education. And a man’s foes shall be they
of his own school.”
In a social system based upon justice and freedom we have a right to ask
for harmony; but where the system is based upon injustice and servitude,
to ask for harmony is merely to be a tool of intrenched wrong. So my
advice to teachers and professors is that they should stand up and
assert themselves, and let harmony come when educational institutions
are controlled by educators, and not by the owners of stocks and bonds
and other symbols of parasitism.
To the educators of the United States—and also to the parents of the
United States—I say: Look about this country of ours. Look at it, not
through the rose-colored glasses of the capitalist press, but look with
your own eyes, and ask if this is a civilization with which you are
really satisfied. A country in which five per cent of the population
owns ninety-five per cent of the wealth, and uses it to increase its
share of income and control; in which ten per cent of the population
exists always below the line of bare subsistence, unable to get food
enough to maintain physical normality; in whose richest city twenty-two
per cent of the children come to school suffering from undernourishment;
whose city slums are growing like monstrous cancers, while the farms are
being deserted because it no longer pays to work them; where tenantry
and farm mortgages are increasing one or two per cent every year; where
crime and prisoners in jails are increasing even faster; where between
one million and five million men, willing to work, are kept unemployed
all the time; where half a million women have to sell their bodies to
get bread to live; where ninety-three per cent of the expenditures of
government are devoted to the destroying of human lives; where the
surplus wealth needed at home is not permitted to be consumed at home,
but is sent abroad to seek opportunities of exploitation, to make our
flag a symbol of greed, and turn our army and navy into debt-collecting
agencies for Wall Street profiteers. Such is America as it really exists
today; such are the facts—and ten thousand fancy-salaried administrators
of education are forbidden ever to mention them, but required to tell
their seven hundred thousand teacher-geese and their twenty-three
million goslings that this is the greatest, the grandest, the most
beautiful and most Christian country that God ever created.
Perhaps you are satisfied with this country, and my proposals for
changing it do not appeal to you; but even so, that does not alter the
fact that the changes are under way. Our country is in the rapids, along
with all the rest of the world. Modern capitalist society is rushing to
a swift and terrifying breakdown; and this not because of crimes or evil
designs of any man or class of men, but because of economic forces
inherent in it, and beyond the power of our feeble social will to
change.
Under the scheme of modern industry enormous quantities of goods can be
produced, but they cannot be distributed, because of what I call “the
iron ring” which binds the profit system. The great mass of the people,
being upon a competitive wage, do not get money enough to purchase all
that they produce; hence comes over-production, periodic crises, “hard
times” and unemployment. Out of this is born the labor movement—and this
again not due to wickedness of individual agitators, but to irresistible
economic force. Under the capitalist method of production the great mass
of the workers are under a pressure which I call “the economic screw.”
Their ultimate fate is extinction, and they organize to save themselves;
the first to go down are the unorganized—including that white-collared
proletariat to which the educators are so proud to belong.
Because no capitalist country can consume its own wealth, every
capitalist country has to seek foreign markets, and in that search it
conflicts with the other capitalist countries. Out of that rivalry grows
war: incessant world-wide war is the abyss into which our present
society is doomed to be hurled. We have seen the collapse come to
Russia; as I write this book it is coming to Germany—and before I write
many more books we shall see it come to the Central European countries,
then to France and Italy, then to England and Japan, and—last of all,
perhaps, but none the less inevitably—to America.
You will recall one of our famous school orators, recently president of
the National Education Association, defining to the world-educators in
San Francisco the function of teachers—to see to it that to the next war
“we shall not send a soldier who cannot write his name.” Such is the
capitalist concept of education and the duty of the educator. Is it
yours? You may answer that it is not; but take note of this fact—what
you answer makes not the slightest difference. That is what you are
doing, and it is what you will continue to do, under the present class
control of industry; training boys to be loyal servants of the
plutocracy, to manufacture new and more terrifying engines of
destruction, and to go out and die horrible deaths whenever the
plutocracy, in its lust for foreign markets, has brought about such a
condition of jealousy and hate that the people can be stampeded into a
war for the defense of liberty, or democracy, or whatever the rascal
politicians and rascal kept editors choose to call it. That is the
future of our children, and that is the rôle which you, the educators,
are commanded to play—which you _do_ play hour by hour, and with the
perfectly explicit understanding that the penalty of refusal is to lose
your status among the white-collared class, the so-called “ladies and
gentlemen,” and to be beaten down to the status of grimy hands and
overalls and celluloid collars.
What can you do about this? The first thing you can do is to understand
it; to get those books and magazines and newspapers which your masters
are moving heaven and earth to keep away from you, and in which you may
find explained the economics of the class struggle, and the forces which
are dragging mankind into the pit.
When you have acquired this knowledge, you will realize once for all
that you can place no hope in the exploiting class. Individual employers
may be kindly and liberal; but with very few exceptions they are bound
in the psychology of their occupation, and the great mass of them are
like every other ruling class in history, drunk with power, and bent
upon their own aggrandizement. In this present world situation they find
themselves confronted with two possible alternatives—world conquest and
class rule for themselves, or abdication and class suicide. In no
country are they going to choose the latter alternative; so you, the
educators under the capitalist regime, are going to fulfill your destiny
as cultivators of cannon-fodder.
The middle class, in which you aspire to remain, is being ground between
the upper and nether mill-stones. You have seen the value of the rouble
and the mark wiped out; you see the franc started on the toboggan, and
some day you will watch the pound and the dollar travel the same road.
More and more the outlines of the world struggle become clear—on the one
side the plutocracy, and on the other the workers. It is the workers,
and they alone, who can deliver us from slaughter; they alone have the
numbers, the potential power, and they alone have the ethics—being
producers, not gamblers and speculators and wasters. The future world of
co-operation and brotherhood is theirs to make, and all they lack is
ripened understanding and vision of the better life.
Twenty years ago, when I first came into the Socialist movement, I had
the beautiful fond idea that the intellectuals would furnish that new
psychology. Twenty years of watching the brain-workers climb out upon
the faces of the poor, and take their comfortable stations as retainers
of privilege, have brought me to realize that the workers must save
themselves; they must supply not merely the numbers, the industrial
power, but also the idealism, the moral power. When I appeal to
educators, I am not indulging in youthful utopianism; the salary
struggles of the past six or eight years have brought vividly home to
the rank and file of teachers the fact that they too are workers, and
that, far from being superior to the proletariat, they are actually less
paid and less respected than carpenters and masons and machinists, who
are organized and able to protect themselves in the wage market. I am
not for a moment overlooking the fact that educators are idealists and
social ministrants; but I assert that they are also members of the
intellectual proletariat, having nothing but their brain power to sell,
and I appeal to them to realize their status, and to act upon the
realities and not the fairy tales of the capitalist world. The educator
is a worker, a useful worker, and the educator’s place is by the side of
all his brothers of that class. “Workers of the world, unite. You have
nothing to lose but your chains; you have a world to gain.”
INDEX
Roman numerals refer to chapters, Arabic numerals to pages. Names of
colleges and schools are in italics.
Adams, Sam, 301
Addams, 299
Addicott, 112, 119
Harvard “Advocate”, 366
Agencies, 386
Agra, 402
_Alabama_, 428
Alden, 198
Algebra, 329
Alleghany, 351
Allen, Gov., 272
Allen B. M., 366
Alpert, 52
Am. Asso. of University Professors, 425
Am. Bankers’ Asso., 284
Am. Bar Asso., 284-5
Am. Book Co., LXV, 107, 170, 176, 185-6, 189, 268, 300, 303, 311
Am. Civil Liberties Union, IV, 47, 282, 350, 420
Am. Federation of Labor, 28, 332, 400, 406, 410
Am. Fed. of Teachers, 165, 170, 181, 401, 405–6
American Legion, LXI, 54, 226, 270, 396
“American Magazine”, 362
_American_, 433
“Americanization”, 91
_Amherst_, 423
Anaconda, XXX-I
Anderson, J. F., 126–7, 250–251, 255
Andres, 282
Andrews, F. F., 274
Andrews, S. M., 163
Andrus, 53
_Antioch_, 413
Arbuckle, 380
Architects, 269
Arkansas, 292–4, 303
Arlett, 127, 238
Armour & Co., 312
Army, 371
Ashley, 50
Associated Press, 124, 145, 235
Atlanta, 398
Atwood, H., 49, 51, 306
Atwood, W., XLI, 129
Augustinian, 201
Austin, 397
Australia, 407
Babbitts, 108, 392
Babcock, 33
Babson, 364
Bachrach, 107
Backus, 115
Baer, 373
Bagwell, 396
Ball, 181
Baltimore, XLIII-IV, 403
Bancroft, 117
“Bankers’ Magazine”, 373
Bardwell, 178
Barnes, A. V., 185, 189, 319–20
Barnes, E., 308
Barrows, LVIII, 120, 124, 328
Barton, 380
Bauernschmidt, XLIV
Beals, XXV
Bean, 56
Beard, 310
Beardsley, 11
Beeber, 203
Belgium, 299
Belloc, 346
_Beloit_, 430
Benicia, 349
_Bennett Medical_, 98
“Beowulf”, 390
Berger, 231
Berkeley, XXV
Berry, 69, 70
Better America Federation, I, 36, 47, 228, 421
Bettinger, 22
Bible, 145
Bither, 96–99
Blackburn, 397
Blackwood, 87
Bloch, 107
Boise, 298, 360
Bok, 428
Bolley, 171
“Bolsheviks”, 237, 243, 252, 260, 273, 286, 314, 367, 385, 392, 432
“Bolshevism”, 107, 222, 391-3
Bonfils, 156
Book Business, LXV-VII
“Bookmen”, 268, 417
Boone, 353
Bordwell, 24, 25, 228, 230
Boston, XL, 177, 266, 270, 367
Bouck, 144, 327
Boyle, 204
Brady, A. M., 359
Brady, N. F., 331
“Brass Check”, 433, 437
Brewer, 404, 407–8
Briggs, 179
Bristol, 32
Broadhurst, 96
Brookline, 193
_Brookwood_, 412
Broome, 206
Brougher, 26
Brown, Dean, 156
Browne, S., 65
Bryan, W. J., 314
Buffalo, 399, 427
Bunker Hill, 308
Burch, 309
Bureau of Education, U. S., 281, 372
Bureau of Standards, U. S., 370
Burns, W. J., II
Burt, 204
Burton, 326
Burzi, 348
Butler, N. M., 25, 245, 246, 265, 375–6, 380, 421
Butte, XXX, 390
Calexico, 360
Calhoun, A. W., 412
Calhoun, P., 110
_California_, 110, 118, 120, 418–2
California, XLVIII, 226–7, 326, 328, 360–1, 387, 395, 407
“Call,” N. Y., 81
Cambridge, 194
Cammack, 165–6
Campbell, 111
Carlsen, 403
_Carnegie_, 264, 265, 426
Carson, 361
Carver, 291
Cary, 277–9, 320–1
Catholic, XL, LXVIII-LXXI, 65, 168, 202, 209, 212, 215, 331, 339
_Catholic_, 433
Cattell, 264, 434
Century Dictionary, 192
Chafee, 193
Chandler, 30–32, 51, 120, 418
Chardenal, 299
Chase, R. E., 228–30
Chaucer, 345
Chauvinism, 299
_Chicago_, 379, 439
Chicago, XX, XXII, 242, 266, 276, 324–5, 373, 406
Child Labor, 189
Chinese, 398
Choate, 363
Citizen, LXXXI, 408–9
Clancy, 176, 260–1
Claremont, 312
“Clarion,” Milwaukee, 232
_Clark_, XLI, 422
Clark, E. P., 32, 43
Clark, H., 38
Clark, W. A., 150
Clarksburg, 356
Clarvoe, 9
Classroom teachers, 236
Class struggle, 242
Clay, 223
Cleveland, 268
Clum, 129–130
Coal, 160
Cody, 186
Cohn, 68
Colby, J., 285
Colorado, XXXII-III, 349
Collins, 348
Collins, M., 379
_Columbia_, 245, 274, 375–6, 421–2, 428, 434
Columbia Correspondence School, 221
“Commercial,” N. Y., 288–9
Commissioner of Education, 241, 264
Commissions, 320
_Commonwealth_, 412
Compton, 327
Connell, 160
Constitution, 18–35, 279, 282–3, 288, 350
Cook, C., 219
Cooley, 103–4, 269, 278
Coolidge, 129, 273, 423
Copp, 24, 30–1
_Cornell_, 439
Cotter, 167
“Courier,” Ottumwa, 289–90, 310
Crabtree, 400
Crawford, 16
Criminal syndicalism, 5, 96, 227
Croker, 60–1
Cronkite, 37
Cross, 361
Cryer, 16–17
Cubage, 292–4
“Current Events”, 312
“Daily Miner,” Butte, 150
Dallas, 295, 380, 397
Daly, 324, 359
Darrow, 24
_Dartmouth_, 429
Davis, E. S., 99
Davis, Director, 208
Day, J. R., 314–5, 423
Debs, 271
Delaware, 279, 437
Denver, XXXII-III, LXXVIII
Department of Classroom Teachers, 236, 240, 267
Department of Justice, 21
“Department of Superintendence”, 227, 236, 268, 274
Des Moines, LIV, 177, 264, 270–2
Detroit, XXXVIII-XXXIX, 100–2, 242, 318–20
Dewey, 75, 405
de Young, 112
“Dial”, 80
Dickson, 32
Dietz, 332
Dinkins, 307
“Direct Legislation”, 134
Doran, 115
Dorsey, V, XI, 34–9, 254, 571
Dotey, 72, 77–84
Dowling, 341, 343
Doyle, 37
Driggs, LII-III, 244–8, 251
Duluth, 352, 412
Duncan, L. J., 147–8
Dunlap, 38
Dunn, Principal, 57
Dunne, 95
Dupont, 279
“Eagle,” Brooklyn, 90
Earl, 418
“Educational films”, 313
“Educational Review”, 25
Edwards, 46
Edwards, G. C., 397
Edwards, President, 221
Eldorado, 350
“Electrical World”, 418
Elgin, 398
Eliot, George, 89
Ellis, 169
Eltzbacher, 76
Emerson, 92, 192
England, 407
English, 374
“Ephebian Society”, 52
Ettinger, 81–3
Evanston, 428
“Examiner,” S. F., 379
“Express,” L. Angeles, 34
Faber, 172
Fairhope, 413
Faneuil Hall, 193
Fargo, 357
Farmer-Labor Party, 173
Farrell, 330
Feitshans, 32–3
Fifth Avenue, 368
Filene’s, 404
Finegan, 205
Finley, 400
Fiske, J., 181
_Fiske_, 431–2
Fleishhacker, 110–11, 418
Flint, 422
Foch, 297
Ford, H., 100, 106, 185
_Fordham_, 330
Fordization, 186
Forsythe, 66
Foshay, 22
“Four-Term Year”, 275
France, 298–9, 416
France, A., 299
Francis, J. H., 23
Frayne, 84
Fredericks, 20–32, 33
“Freeman”, 141
“Free Press,” Oakland, 127
French Classics, 434
Fresno, 361
Frick, 315
Frye-Atwood, 196
Fundamentalists, 424
Galbraith, 300
Gallagher, 112, 119
Gardner, 237–40, 248, 250, 253, 261, 266–7, 311
Garrett, 212
Garrigues, 73, 75, 76
Garrison, W. L., Jr., 367
Gartz, 15
Garvan, 330
Gary, 102, 350, 352, 421
Gates, President, 318
Gay, 272
“Gazette,” Worcester, 195
Gellhorn, 172
General Education Board, LX
Geometry, 329
_Georgetown_, 330
Germany, 277, 298–9
Gerry, 219, 221
Ghent, 306
Gibbons, 343
Ginn & Co., 136, 196, 268, 278, 310, 321, 329, 362, 423
Giovannitti, 421
Gladstone, 334
Glassberg, 78, 79
Gleason, 322–3
“Globe-Democrat,” St. L., 169
“Globe,” N. Y., 438
“The Goose-step”, LXXXV-VIII, 197
Goetbo, 396
Gould, 183
Gould, H., 368–9
Gove, 155
Grand Rapids, 319
Grange, 326
Grant, 310
Gratz, 204
Green, 166
Greene, 56
Greenlaw, 302
Gregory, 430
Griffith, 313
_Groton_, 362
Grout, XXVII-VIII
Gruver, 201
Guitteau, 308
Gwinn, 119, 254, 270
Gymnasia, 278
Haldeman, 27, 32, 47, 51
Haley, XX-XXII, LIII, 87, 186, 237, 241, 247, 250–2, 264–6, 275–6
Hallett, XXXII
Halpin, 298
Hamer, 424
Hamilton, 54, 301
Hammond, A. B., 13–4
Hankins, 201
Hanna, 113
Hannah, 151, 304
Hansen, 41
Hanson, 129
Harcourt, 311
Hard, W., 283
Harden, 260–1, 263, 246
Hardin, 152
Hardy, 345
Hardyman, 18, 43
“Harmony”, 440
Harrison, P., 218–20
Harrisburg, 412
Harrow, 80
Hart, 301
_Harvard_, 194, 366, 404, 417, 433–4
Harvard Liberal Club, 288–9
Harvey, H., 422
Hays, W. H., 312–3
Heath, 104, 325
Hedges, 430
Heinze, 147
Hellman, 15, 20
Helm, 29
Heney, 110
“Herald”, 86
Herberman, 345
Herrick, 433
Herron, 318
Hesse, 170–3, 406
Hibben, 363
Hichborn, 347
Higbie, 359
Hilfinger, 427
Hill, A. B., 292–4
Hillis, N. D., 314–5
Hirshfield, LXII, 308
Hollywood, 3, 28, 384
Hollis, 198–200
Holmes, J. H., 83, 438
Homestead, 351
Hopkins, E. M., 374
Hopkins, P., 18, 412
_Hotchkiss_, 362
Houston, 401
Houston, D., 291
Howe, 89
Hubbard, 144
Huns, 367
Hunter, XXVI, 229, 238, 244, 251, 254, 262, 272
Hughan, 85–6
Hughes, C. E., 139
Hughes, R. O., 307
Ibsen, 150
Idaho, 360
Illinois, 246, 325, 350
_Illinois_, 430
Illiteracy, 347, 371, 373
Immorality, 382
Imperial Valley, 378
“Independent”, 138
“Independent,” Walsenburg, 163
Indiana, 285, 317–8
“Individual Strike”, 407
“Industrial Barometer”, 187
“Industrial Progress”, 333
Insull, 109
Italy, 421
I. W. W., 5, 6, 14, 130, 145, 179, 272, 412
Iowa City, 290, 324
Irish, 192, 193
Jabbergrab, 427
James, 323
Jefferson, 54
Jepson, 174
Jesuit, 193, 200
Johnson, C. W., 172
Johnson, H., 421
Johnson, M., 413
Jones, O., 245, 255, 262
Jones, S., 114
Jordan, 299
“Journal,” Detroit, 318
“Journal of A. M. A.”, 98
“Journal of Education”, 256, 261
“Journal of Educational Research”, 376
Joyce, 300
Judd, 171, 286, 317–8, 327
Jung, 139
Jungle, 312
Kahn, 114
Kaiser, 273
Kansas, 326
Kansas City, XXXIV, 270
Karapetoff, 419
Keane, 340
Kelley, 378
Kellor, 385–6
Kemper, 164
Kennan, 162
Kennedy, C. R., 150
Kensington, 208
Kentucky, 325
_Kentucky Wesleyan_, 424
Keyes, 15
Kidder, Peabody & Co., 191
Kimbrough, 10–8
“Kingdom”, 318
Kinney, 176, 182–3
Kipling, 312
Kiwanis, 202
Klein, 96
Knights of Columbus, 202, 332–3
Knoxville, 424
Koeb, 386, 397
Koenig, 12
Ku Klux Klan, 65, 295, 381, 427
Kunze, 181
LaFollette, 231
“Labor Age”, 4
Labor Film Service, 312
“Labor Review”, 180
Labor Unions, 387
Lacy, 38–9
Ladd, Prof., 425
Lamont, 362, 366
Lapolla, 84
Lapp, 304
Lassalle, 188
Laughlin, 188
Lawrence, 365
_Lawrenceville_, 363–4
“Leader,” Okla., 294, 396
Learned, 220
Leavitt, 403
Lee, 310
Lee, J. M., 438–9
Lee, Higginson & Company, 191, 417
Lee-Nyne, 393
Leesville, 397
Lefkowitz, 183
Leigh, 51
Leland, 437
Lenin, 78, 79–83, 421
Leo XIII, 339, 343
Leonard, W. E., 364
Levenson, 128
Levine, 148
Levis, 275–6
Lewis, H. H., 333
Libel, 436
Lickley, VIII
Lindsey, LXXVIII, 159, 437
Lippincotts, 188
“Literary Digest”, 138
Littleton, LXXIII
Llano Colony, 397
Lloyd, H. D., 318
Loeb, 102–3
“Looters,” The, 160
Lorain, 352–3
Los Angeles, I-XII, XLVII, 373
Lovett, 328
Lucey, 66
Ludlow Massacre, 383
Lusk, 81
Lowell, 417
Macbeth, 33
MacDonald, Milo, 66
Macy, J., 434
Magill, LIII, 247–8, 250–2
Magna Charta, 406
Mandel, 302
Marckwardt, 186
Marland, 294
Marquis, 367
Marshall, 379
Marshall Field & Co., 108
Marx, G., 328
Marx, K., 188
_Mass. Tech._, 433–4
Matthews, B., 434
Maurer, 412
Maxwell, 67
McAndrew, 307
McAndrew, Principal, 107
McCalley, 399
McCooey, 66
McKaig, 297, 310
McKeesport, 350
McKenzie, 431
McKinley, 98–9
McKnight, 37
McLean, 220
McNulty, 345
McSweeney, 332
Means, G. B., 12
Meiklejohn, 423
Melish, 83
Mellon, 427–8
Mencken, 385
Menzel, 263
Merz, 434–5
Metzger, 99
Mexico, 328–9
Michigan, 325
Miles, 277
Miller, C. G., 303
Miller, E. L., 188, 305
Mills, A. L., 130–1, 136
Mills, D. O., 437
Mills, L. H., 400
Mills, O. L., 437
Milton, 345
Milwaukee, 231–4, 247, 268, 271, 327, 346, 396
Minneapolis, XXXVI-VII, 276
_Minnesota_, 181, 426, 431
Minor, 12
Missouri, 324
_Missouri_, 425
Mitten, 204
Monroe, V., 413
Montana, XXX-I
Moore, E. C., 23, 227
Morey, 155
Morgan, J. E., LIV
Morgan & Company, 102, 285, 375, 417–8, 437
Morgan, Pres., 424
Mormon, LII
_Morningside_, 425
Morrison, 318–20
Morrow, 423
“Mother-baiting”, 89, 211
Mott, L., 367
Moynihan, 99
Muma, 32, 40–2
Murfin, 185
Murphy, 167
Mussolini, 271, 421–2
Muste, 366
Muzzey, 301–9
Mystic Trumpeter, 394
Nafe, 162
Nashville, 424
“Nation”, 50, 80, 141, 197, 297, 430, 434
National Association for Constitutional Government, 286
National Association of Manufacturers, 226, 276–280
National Catholic Welfare Council, 231–2
National Chamber of Commerce, 285, 373
National Child Labor Committee, 190
National Council of Education, 372
National Council for the Prevention of War, 300
National Council of Teachers of English, 374
National Educational Association, XLIX-LVI, 119, 125–6, 142, 158, 225,
372, 407
National Electric Light Association, 418
National Industrial Conference Board, 286–7
National Security League, 274, 287
National Student Forum, 283, 431
National Tube Company, 352
Nationalization of Women, 392
Neal, Jud., 308-9
Nearing, 196, 369
_Nebraska_, 376
Negro, 219, 425
Neilson, 358
New Freedom, 146
“New Republic”, 50, 80, 138, 141, 197, 434
“New Student”, 431
New Robinson Crusoe, 311
_New School_, 413
New York, XIII-XIX, 373
_New York_, 427
“News,” Dallas, 380
“News,” Chicago, XX
Newberry, 185, 186, 319, 320
Newman, 340–1
Newton, 254
Nichols, 164
Noll, 337, 342
Nonpartisan League, 151, 164, 272, 310, 322, 357
_Notre Dame_, 429
North Dakota, 322, 357–9
_North Dakota_, 425
_Northwestern_, 428
Noyes, 220
Nugent, 164
Oakland, XXVI, 230, 258–6, 262–3, 272
Oaks, III
Odell, 33, 57
Officers’ Reserve Corps, 180
Ogden, M., 56
O’Hare, 412, 425
Ohio, 390
Oil, LXXIII
“Oil-Dome”, 251, 259
Oklahoma, 294–5, 325, 396
_Oklahoma_, 432
Older, 110–114
Olgin, 392–3
Oliver, 350
Olsen, 181
O’Mahoney, 115
Open shop, 165, 195, 333
Onaway, 236
“One-Teacher Schools”, 372, 377
“Oregonian”, 136–9
_Organic_, 413
Otis, 23–29
“Our Sunday Visitor”, 337, 342
“Outlook”, 138
Owen, 239, 244–7, 262
Owens, 397
“Owls”, 36–8
Oxnam, 30, 34–9
Pallen, 84, 331
Parent-Teachers Associations, 48
“Parochial Schools”, 336
Pasadena, II, 400
Pathfinders, 413
“Patriot League”, 303
Patriotism, 301
Paul, Dr., 73
Payne, L., 52, 56
Payne, O., 366
Payne, 169
Pearse, 233–4, 244, 252, 327
Pelletier, 332
Pensions, 264–6
Pennsylvania, 396
Peoria, 325
Pershing, 296
Petersen, 113
Philadelphia, XLII, 377
_Phillips Andover_, 362, 365–6
_Phillips Exeter_, 362
Pictures, LXIV
Pierce, LXXIII, 387–9, 390
Pinkerton, 164
Pittsburgh, 350–1, 426
Pius IX, LXIX
“Platoon System”, 100–2
Plimpton, 321, 362
Pluhar, 281
Plum, 289–90
Plummer, III
Portland, XXVII-VIII, 139
“Post,” Boston, 348
“Post,” Worcester, 195
“Post-Dispatch,” St. Louis, 425
Powell, 290, 309–10
Power, A. R., 116
Power Trust, 418
Prang, 41
Preston, LIII, 142, 144, 245, 401
_Princeton_, 427
“Printers Ink”, 427
Progressive Education Association, 413
Proudhon, 188
_Purdue_, 431
Purdy, 173, 178, 182
Quale, 49
“Rape of the Lock”, 390
Raynor, 79
Rebec, 140
“Record,” Newton, 311
“Record,” Phila., 305
“Reds”, 30, 35, 62
“Red Tape”, 374
Reed, T. B., 280
Reedy, 95
“Review of Reviews”, 194
Rice, I. H., 8
Richmond, 16
Riordan, 398–9
Riot Department, LXI
“Rip-Saw,” Duluth, 352
Riverside, 400
Robertson, Dean, 439
Robertson, J. D., 98, 100
Robertson, W. W., 261–2
Robins, R., 79
Robinson, J. H., 307, 310, 424
Rockefeller, LX, 161, 315
Rodman, XIX
Rolland, 299
Roman, F., 278
Roncovieri, XXIII, 119
Root, E., 265
Rotarians, 202
Rowan, 204
Ruef, 110
Rugg, 423
Ruskin, 315
Russia, 242, 306, 314
Rutberg, 37
_Rutgers_, 428
Ruth, 380
Ryan, Father, 330, 331, 433
Ryan, J. D., 331
Ryan, T. F., 61
St. Christopher, 348
St. Joseph, Mo., 236
St. Louis, XXXV, 406
_St. Marks_, 363
St. Paul, 286
_St. Paul’s_, 363
Salary campaign, 26
Salt Lake, LII, 247, 266
San Antonio, 401
San Diego, 271, 296, 378
San Francisco, XXIII-IV, 272–3
San Pedro, 6
San Quentin, 5
Santmyer, 142–3
Sapiro, 307
Sargent, 279
Schenck, 156
Scott, Pres., 428
Schmalhausen, 73–7
Schmitz, 109–10
“School Life”, 296
“School and Society”, 369, 404
School survey, LXXVI
Schultz, 277
“Scoring”, 376
Seattle, XXIX
Seligman, 86
Shallcross, 204
Sharples, 141–3
Shaw, G. B., 188
Shaw, L. M., 50, 129
Sheldon, 15
Shelley, 434
Shepard, 84, 437
Shepard-Towner Bill, 272
Shiels, 25
Shorrock, 141
Shoup, 421
Shutter, 180
Silzer, 428
Sinclair, M., 77
Sinclair, U., 15, 34–5, 53, 286, 422–3, 434
Slattery, 418
Smith, Examiner, 66–8
Smith, Joseph, 249, 252
Smith, P., 274
Snobbery, LXV
Socialists, 295, 394, 420
Socony, LX
Somers, 67
Somers, H. H., 114
Sommers, 154
Southampton, 407
South Dakota, 324, 359
_South Dakota_, 428
South Jersey, 117
Southern California, I-XII
Southern Pacific, 421
_Southern Methodist_, 381
Spain, C. L., 102
Spillman, 291
Spokane, 145–6
Spreckels, 110
Sprowls, 424
Soviet Russia, 421
Stafford, 180
Standard Oil, 418, 428
_Stanford_, 420-1, 386-7
“Star-Spangled Banner”, 212
“Star,” K. C., 164
“Star,” Wash., 218
Stearns, 423
Steel, LXXII, 426
Sterling, 178
Steffens, 83, 203
Stevenson, 84
Stillman, 29
Stockton, 280
Stratton, 418
Strayer, LI, LIII, 262–9, 274, 285, 321, 375–6, 377
Street and Smith, 333
Strikes, LXXXIII
Studebaker, 403
Sullivan, 115
Sullivan, J. T., 144
Sunday, “Billy”, 25
Superintendents, 226, 227, 316
Superior, 377
Supreme Court, 279
“Survey”, 138–9, 370, 356, 388
Suzzallo, 141
Swain, 264
Swenson, 176
“Syllabus of Errors”, LXIX
_Syracuse_, 422, 427
Taft, 422
Tammany Hall, 160, 233, 235, 240
Tammen, 156, 157
Tannenbaum, 83
Taylor, 142, 156
Taylor, A. P., 413
Teachers’ Associations, 225
“Teachers’ Bureaus”, LXXIX
Teachers’ Union, LXXXII-III
“Technology Review”, 434
“Telegram,” Worcester, 195
Tennessee, 144, 379
_Tennessee_, 423
Terror, Teachers’, LXXX
Texas, 325, 396, 404
Text-Books, LXI-LXVIII, 298–301
Thatcher, 79
“They Call Me Carpenter”, 297
Thomas, Mrs., 196
Thompson, Lynn, XXXVI-VII
Thompson, Mayor, 102
Thompson, W. B., 362
Thomson, Prof., 201
Thorson, 322–3
Thurber, 195, 197, 321, 423
Tigert, 271, 272, 296
Tildsley, XVI, 69, 70, 85–6, 90–1
“Times,” Detroit, 185
“Times,” Los Angeles, I, III, V, 30, 34, 227, 296, 306
“Times,” N. Y., 71, 81, 86, 89, 93, 379
Todd, Capt. P., 434
Torchio, 419
Tower, 390
Townsend, 21
“Tribune,” Chicago, XX, 105–6
“Tribune,” N. Y., 86
“Tribune,” Oakland, 126
Trotsky, 78–9
Trovatore, 378
Tweed, 62
Tyler, 360
Undergraduate, 430
Unemployment, 385
Unitarian, 423
United Press, 10
University Club, II
Utah, LII
_Valparaiso_, 427
Van de Goorberg, 30
Van Loon, 439
Van Schaick, XLV
Vanderbilt, 241, 368–9
Vare, 204
Vassar, 437
Veblen, 80
Ventzke, 396
Vermont, 265
Viereck, 70
“Villains”, 436
Visional Instruction, 314
Wadsworth, E., 418
Wadsworth, J., 363
Wald, 84
Walton, J., 294–5
Ward, A., 439
Washburn, 24
Washington State, XXIX, 326, 396
Washington, D. C., XLV-XLVI
Water power, 49
Waters, 24, 228
Weaver, 27, 28
Webster, 223
Webster, A. G., 198
“Weeds”, 378
Weeks, 427
Wells, H. G., 81, 201
Wentworth, 329
Werner, 422
West, G. P., 419
West, W. M., 301, 310
West Virginia, LXXIII, 349
Whalen, 72, 75
Wheeling, 387
White, W. A., 164
_Whitman_, 142
Whitman, 394
Whitney, 61
Wilshire, 438
Wilson, W., 73, 146, 223, 294
Wilson, Supt., 400
Williams, C. O., 238, 240, 245, 270, 273
Winkley, 174
Winship, 256
Wisconsin, #231–4:Page_231, 321, 349
_Wisconsin_, 429
Wise, S. S., 83
Withers, 169
Woelfkin, 428
Wolfner, 169
_Women’s Medical_, 426
Wood, A., 219, 222–3
Wood, Father, 111
Wood, O. G., 149, 297, 380
Wood, W. M., 365
Worcester, XLI
Workers’ Education, LXXXIV
Workers’ Educat. Bureau, 411
Workers’ Party, 12
“World,” N. Y., 427
Wright, J. F., 413
Wyckliffite, 345
_Yale_, 363, 422
Yorke, 115
Young, 147, 201
Young, E. F., 108
Y. M. C. A., 343, 367, 432
Young Workers’ League, 56
Zeuch, 412
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They Call Me Carpenter
By UPTON SINCLAIR
Would you like to meet Jesus? Would you care to walk down Broadway with
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treating His life in a contemporary setting—why not the novelist?
“Heywood Broun and other critics notwithstanding, it must be stated
that Sinclair has treated the figure of Christ with a reverence far
more sincere than that of writings in which His presence is shrouded
in pseudo-mystic inanity. By an artistry borrowed from the technique
of modern expressionist fiction, he has combined downright realism
with an extravagant imaginativeness in which the appearance of Christ
is no more improper than it is in the actual dreams of hundreds of
thousands of devout Christians.
“Like all of Sinclair’s writings, this book is, of course, a Socialist
tract; but here—in a spirit which entirely destroys Mr. Broun’s charge
that he has made Christ the spokesman of one class—he is unmerciful in
his exposure of the sins of the poor as well as of the rich, and
directs at the comrades in radical movements a sermon which every
churchman will gladly endorse.
“It is not necessary to recommend a book that will find its way into
thousands of homes. Incidentally one wonders how a story so
colloquially American—Mr. Broun considers this bad taste—can possibly
be translated into the Hungarian, the Chinese and the dozen or so
other languages in which Sinclair’s books are devoured by the common
people of the world.”
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_A book which has been absolutely boycotted by the literary reviews of
America._
THE PROFITS OF RELIGION
BY UPTON SINCLAIR
A study of Supernaturalism as a Source of Income and a Shield to
Privilege; the first examination in any language of institutionalized
religion from the economic point of view. “Has the labour as well as the
merit of breaking virgin soil,” writes Joseph McCabe. The book has had
practically no advertising and only two or three reviews in radical
publications; yet forty thousand copies have been sold in the first
year.
_From the Rev. John Haynes Holmes_: “I must confess that it has fairly
made me writhe to read these pages, not because they are untrue or
unfair, but on the contrary, because I know them to be the real facts.
I love the church as I love my home, and therefore it is no pleasant
experience to be made to face such a story as this which you have
told. It had to be done, however, and I am glad you have done it, for
my interest in the church, after all, is more or less incidental,
whereas my interest in religion is a fundamental thing.... Let me
repeat again that I feel that you have done us all a service in the
writing of this book. Our churches today, like those of ancient
Palestine, are the abode of Pharisees and scribes. It is as spiritual
and helpful a thing now as it was in Jesus’ day for that fact to be
revealed.”
_From Luther Burbank_: “No one has ever told ‘the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth’ more faithfully than Upton Sinclair
in ‘The Profits of Religion.’”
_From Louis Untermeyer_: “Let me add my quavering alto to the chorus
of applause of ‘The Profits of Religion.’ It is something more than a
book—it is a Work!”
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A New Novel by Upton Sinclair
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THE STORY OF A PATRIOT
Would you like to go behind the scenes and see the “invisible
government” of your country saving you from the Bolsheviks and the Reds?
Would you like to meet the secret agents and provocateurs of “Big
Business,” to know what they look like, how they talk and what they are
doing to make the world safe for democracy? Several of these gentlemen
have been haunting the home of Upton Sinclair during the past three
years and he has had the idea of turning the tables and investigating
the investigators. He has put one of them, Peter Gudge by name, into a
book, together with Peter’s ladyloves, and his wife, and his boss and a
whole group of his fellow-agents and their employers.
The hero of this book is a red-blooded, 100% American, a “he-man” and no
mollycoddle. He begins with the Mooney case, and goes through half a
dozen big cases of which you have heard. His story is a fact-story of
America from 1916 to 1920, and will make a bigger sensation than “The
Jungle.” Albert Rhys Williams, author of “Lenin” and “In the Claws of
the German Eagle,” read the MS. and wrote:
“This is the first novel of yours that I have read through with real
interest. It is your most timely work, and is bound to make a
sensation. I venture that you will have even more trouble than you had
with ‘The Brass Check’—in getting the books printed fast enough.”
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JIMMIE HIGGINS
“Jimmie Higgins” is the fellow who does the hard work in the job of
waking up the workers. Jimmie hates war—all war—and fights against it
with heart and soul. But war comes, and Jimmie is drawn into it, whether
he will or no. He has many adventures—strikes, jails, munitions
explosions, draft-boards, army-camps, submarines and battles. “Jimmie
Higgins Goes to War” at last, and when he does he holds back the German
army and wins the battle of “Chatty Terry.” But then they send him into
Russia to fight the Bolsheviki, and there “Jimmie Higgins Votes for
Democracy.”
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world-war; all wings of the movement, all the various tendencies and
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_From “The Candidate”_: I have just finished reading the first
installment of “Jimmie Higgins” and I am delighted with it. It is the
beginning of a great story, a story that will be translated into many
languages and be read by eager and interested millions all over the
world. I feel that your art will lend itself readily to “Jimmie
Higgins,” and that you will be at your best in placing this dear
little comrade where he belongs in the Socialist movement. The opening
story of your chapter proves that you know him intimately. So do I and
I love him with all my heart, even as you do. He has done more for me
than I shall ever be able to do for him. Almost anyone can be “The
Candidate,” and almost anyone will do for a speaker, but it takes the
rarest of qualities to produce a “Jimmie Higgins.” You are painting a
superb portrait of our “Jimmie” and I congratulate you.
EUGENE V. DEBS.
_From Mrs. Jack London_: Jimmie Higgins is immense. He is real, and so
are the other characters. I’m sure you rather fancy Comrade Dr.
Service! The beginning of the narrative is delicious with an
irresistible loving humor; and as a change comes over it and the Big
Medicine begins to work, one realizes by the light of 1918, what you
have undertaken to accomplish. The sure touch of your genius is here,
Upton Sinclair, and I wish Jack London might read and enjoy.
CHARMIAN LONDON.
_From a Socialist Artist_: Jimmie Higgins’ start is a master portrayal
of that character. I have been out so long on these lecture tours that
I can appreciate the picture. I am waiting to see how the story
develops. It starts better than “King Coal.”
RYAN WALKER.
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Concerning
=The Jungle=
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Not since Byron awoke one morning to find himself famous has there been
such an example of world-wide celebrity won in a day by a book as has
come to Upton Sinclair.—_New York Evening World._
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It is a book that does for modern industrial slavery what “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” did for black slavery. But the work is done far better and more
accurately in “The Jungle” than in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”—_Arthur Brisbane
in the New York Evening Journal._
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I never expected to read a serial. I am reading “_The Jungle_,” and I
should be afraid to trust myself to tell how it affects me. It is a
great work. I have a feeling that you yourself will be dazed some day by
the excitement about it. It is impossible that such a power should not
be felt. It is so simple, so true, so tragic and so human. It is so
eloquent, and yet so exact. I must restrain myself or you may
misunderstand.—_David Graham Phillips._
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In this fearful story the horrors of industrial slavery are as vividly
drawn as if by lightning. It marks an epoch in revolutionary
literature.—_Eugene V. Debs._
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Mr. Heinemann isn’t a man to bungle;
He’s published a book which is called “The Jungle.”
It’s written by Upton Sinclair, who
Appears to have heard a thing or two
About Chicago and what men do
Who live in that city—a loathsome crew.
It’s there that the stockyards reek with blood,
And the poor man dies, as he lives, in mud;
The Trusts are wealthy beyond compare,
And the bosses are all triumphant there,
And everything rushes without a skid
To be plunged in a hell which has lost its lid.
For a country where things like that are done
There’s just one remedy, only one,
A latter-day Upton Sinclairism
Which the rest of us know as Socialism.
Here’s luck to the book! It will make you cower,
For it’s written with wonderful, thrilling power.
It grips your throat with a grip Titanic,
And scatters shams with a force volcanic.
Go buy the book, for I judge you need it,
And when you have bought it, read it, read it.
—_Punch_ (_London_).
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Transcriber’s Note
Each page or chapter reference in the Index is linked for navigation to
the top of that page as it appeared in the original or to the beginning
of that chapter. Since those page breaks are not preserved, the topic
referenced by page may appear on the _next_ page as displayed here.
There is an error in the Index for Judge Neal and the following item for
Scott Nearing.
Neal, Jud., 308-9
Nearing, 196, 369
Judge Neal is mentioned only on p. 424. The reference to pp. 308-9 is
obviously intended to be included in the Nearing item.
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and
are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.
The following issues should be noted, along with the resolutions.
16.4 worth not[h]ing what happened Removed.
41.6 develop addit[i]onal sources of supply Inserted.
41.30 in transactions such as this[.] Added.
78.12 the twen[t]y-seven would testify Inserted.
138.10 “New Republic” and the “Survey.[”] Added.
142.22 w[b/h]ose purpose was Replaced.
207.37 who would otherwise [h/b]e barred Replaced.
253.1 one o’clock in the mornin[g] Added.
259.38 a majority of[ of] the convention Removed.
262.18 the gentlemen’[t/s] agreements Replaced.
297.15 Vice-president Coolidge,[”] Removed.
326.8 th[e]y have been taken over Inserted.
373.30 housing for the school children[.] Added.
374.30 teachers of English are overworke[r/d], Replaced.
390.13 regard themselves as bold prog[r]essives Inserted.
396.16 the mobbing of Nonpartis[i]an League members Removed.
414.39 if peace can be [thoroly] understood. _sic_
415.18 Each child will [thoroly] understand _sic_
428.8 of their i[m/n]tellectual munition factories Replaced.
437.32 “Church of J. P. Morgan & Company[”] Added.
446.51 Dorsey, V, XI, 34–9, 254[, 571] Invalid.
454.9 [“]Times,” N. Y., 71, 81, 86, 89, 93, 379 Added.