Posted on 04/16/2022 1:45:50 PM PDT by Enterprise
I agreed with his statement.
Trump told them the truth, and they gave HIM hell.
Billions of dollars can finance excruciating lawsuits. I hope he brings the pain!
“Probably with good reason as “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair came out in 1906.”
The book needed writing. Too bad it was written by a socialist like Sinclair.
I read it when I was older after I graduated high school. The meat processing industry had dreadfully unsanitary conditions. The focus shifted to a discussion on the glory of socialism. I realized that the book was a vehicle to sell the reader on socialism with the meat processing industry underlying the message.
As history revealed, the author aimed at socialism, and America became outraged about the practices in the meat processing industry. Rightly so!
There were quite a few books in that time period that extolled the virtues of socialism but ended up having the opposite effect. It was the progressive era of T Roosevelt and that bunch after all.
There was one I read that was a real heart jerker. I can’t remember the name but it was aimed at working class folks and farmers. When I finished reading it I was glad I had been born into the situation I was in. We owned the land we farmed, the house we lived in, the animals and crops we raised and sold. I came away thinking that capitalism was a good deal and socialism was for the lazy and corrupt. I don’t think I was the authors demographic.
Even though the meat processing industry needed cleaning up the food industry in general was a crap shoot. Producers put their products in dark glass jars and did everything possible to hide what was in the product. Arsenic, coal tar, embalming fluid and all manner of things might be in that benign glass jar sitting on the shelf.
Henry Heinz started putting his products in clear glass jars so the public could see what they were buying. He even went as far as to buy an entire years production of the dark glass jars to force others to use clear glass.
Finally he sent his chemist son to DC to help push the Pure Food Act of 1906.
Capitalism has served us very well imvho.
Wow! Took them a while to get someone to take them to a game!
Could it have been "The Grapes of Wrath?"
“Wow! Took them a while to get someone to take them to a game!”
Yes it did!
Actually I think they only went to the ballgame because their song became associated with baseball. The song was a Tin Pan Alley song that was commissioned by one of the music publishing companies that was very influential in New York at the time.
The song wasn’t associated with baseball until 1934 when it was played at a highschool game. Later that year it was first played at a Major League game.
A quick history of the song.
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“Could it have been “The Grapes of Wrath?””
I don’t remember. It was part of a volume of Readers Digest condensed books that I got for Christmas one year.
The only thing I remember is that Daddy was an evil capitalist, sonnyboy had his head in the clouds and couldn’t see any point of view that wasn’t his. Sonny was pretty much banished from the family and went out to work beside the downtrodden proletariat and educate the dirty masses to rise, unionize and socialise.
Things didn’t work out for Sonny. He was hungry, got beat up some and lost an arm in an accident.
There is all I remember.
That doesn’t ring a bell. Maybe another FReeper can remember it.
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