The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-12-30
THE FOOD CURSE.

can pass along tno StTcetS WIcIc lllo CssllcO
Glover classes" live without noticing the
continual recurrence of tobacco shops and Ii
quor saloons, and how much more numerous
they are than grocery stores and butchers
stalls. One unrestricted in the wants OF the
human stomach might think that beer and
tobacco are Of far more importance as foods
than meat and potatoes aud bread are. Let
table try to satisfy his hunger at the restaurants
frequented by the patrons Of these shops and
saloons, and he will understand why recourse
must be had to artificial stimulus to give the
craving stomach even for little time the sense
of satisfaction. One came but think that ii
the temperance lecturers in the field would
preach the gospel of good food, and put these
classes" in the way OF supplying themselves
with good bread and meat and vegetables per-
frctly cooked, intemperance would immearur-
ably diminish If Holy Tree Inns could be
established side by side with liquor saloons,
and the clamors Of normal hunger be normally
satisfied at reasonable rates, can any one doubt
that the inns would flourish and the saloons
declinef Here indeed is work for the phil
anthropist; the fields are white to the harvest,
but alas, the laborers here are few?
There Is great deal of Gree in this.
Much of the vice of the world ,comes
from poverty. Poverty implies wants
unsatis6ed; hungry stomachs, empty
minds, shivering limbs. bad society. and
all the temptations, rum and wretched.
ness. When one looks at the shop win
dows Of a great city, with their displays
of food and clothes money and jewellery,
and nothing but pane Of fragile, glass
between these treasures and the hungry,
cold, degraded, scowling creatures who
pass them by, the wonder is not there
are thieves, but that there is any security
at all for life and property.
Reform must begin in the larder.
The perfection Of society can only be
reached through prosperity; and pros
perity depends on wise and equal laws.
and these again on the intelligence Of
the people. And so at last we find the
surest cure for vice and immortality in
the school house and the church; the
school house to fit men to know what i.
for their best interests, and the church
to develops the moral nature, and save
society from these peculiar vices which
are the outcome OF superbundant pros
perity.
For the vices of man are like his dis
eases, while il is true that there are fe
physica diseases which can be traced +
. high living the great multitudes OF then
) spring from debility, consequent upol
under feeding. So with moral diseases
Dirt and want generate sins as natur
ally as they breed vermin.
Progress must commence with educa
ton; thence it proceeds to the ballo
box thence to the statute book; an
thence it flowers fourth in abundance
contentment, fair-play and virtue. Tn,
, political reformer who seeks to improv
, the legislation of people strikes at tn
! roots of vice. while the person simpl
prunes the limbs of that vine whose sa
flows from the fat, rich soil of misgo.
|. ernment.-
E Our former correspondent Samu;
Leavitt of New York wrote the othe
n day to Patrons Helper of Iowa as fs
! lows:
; But viii have word about Moody an
Sankey. am getting out Of patience vii
t all benevolent efforts that aims af helping Il
o in religious exercises, Imade up my mind e,
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