Upton Sinclair Honored

Chicago's Union Stockyards Gate has been honored as a literary landmark by Friends of Libraries U.S.A. The gate is the last vestige of the city's former stockyards which served as the unforgettable setting of Upton Sinclair's landmark novel The Jungle.

"The monument that we honor today, in the broad sense, is the spirit of the people and particularly the literary monument that Upton Sinclair has left us, which will withstand the winds of time even when the physical monuments have turned to sand," said Saulius Kuprys, president of the Lithuanian American Council.

What's this, then? Honoring a rabid socialist who excoriated the monied elite and their supposedly inhuman and heartless pursuit of their birthright profits? Were the authorities notified? The appropriate arrests have already been made, I presume?

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