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

A recent writer sayS:-NO thOught1ul person
can pass along the streets where the so-cailed
Clover 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 unlnstructed in the wants OF tne
human stomach mi ght think that beer and
tobacco are Of far more Importance as foods
than meat and potatoes aud bread are. Let
any one who habtually sits at a we'll furnished
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 cannot but think that ii
the temperance lecturers in the field would
preach the gospel of good food and put these
underfed, imperfectly nourished Glover
classes in the way OF supplying themselves
with good bread and meat and vegetables per
f-ctly cooked, intemp-rance would immearur-
ably diminish. If Holy Tree Inns could be
established side 10y side with liquor saloons,
and the ciamors Of normal hunger be normally
satisfied at reasonable rates, can any one doubt
that the inns would flourish and the saloons
decline9 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 nrce 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 display
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 b,
reached through prosperity; and pros
perity depe nds on wise and equal laws
and these again on the intelligence o
the people. And SO at last we find til,
>urest cure for vice and immortality il
the school house and the church; tn
school house to fl. men to know what j
for their best interests, and the churc
to develope the moral nature. and saw
society from these peculiar vices whic
are the outcome Of superbundant pros
perity.
For the vices of man are like his dis
eases, while it is true that there are fe
physical diseases which can be traced /
, high living the great multitudes OF ther
; spring from debility, consequent apo
t under feeding. SO with moral diseases
DIRT and want generate sins as natul
ally as they breed yermin.
; Progress must commence with educ:
ton: thence it proceeds to the balle
box: thence to the statute bouk; an
/ thence it flowers fourth in abundanc,
cont ntment. fair play and virtue Tn
political reformer who seeks to improy
!, the legislation of q people strikes at Ii
r 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 9th,
n day to Patrons Helper of Iowa as fe
b lows:
= But | will have word abou. MOODY al
Sankey. am getting out Of patience NJ
t all benevolent efforts that aims at helping {
n soul apart from the bsiv. Much IS | d.sIig
% in religious exercises. made up nv mind =.
.e eraA years ago never again 10 permaneu;
y eouatenance any church the members wIers
: meet Al the meeting house occasionally 10 hui
!, each ether up in the most holy taith, a
l. spend the rsst of their time in cutting "a
Is Others Threats financially, through eompe