Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-22

no opportunity TO understand the tremendous
significance and force OF the movement that
Is now sweeping over the land, and of which
am Very humble representative IL is
something more than political agitation; it
is an uphraval and reorganization OF society
on the basis OF science and abstract Right. II
ls fit and proper that !, belonging to race
that has only recently been emancipated and
enfranohlsed by the march OF ideas, should
stand In the advance guard--in the forlorn
hope, II may be-of the new revolution"
His flaming eyes were now looking directly
Into here. Although little troubled by his
earnestnese, she could not hide her proud sat
isfactlon in his manly bearing
we believe that every Animal is born free
and equal,b he said. "That the humblest
polyp or the most insignificant molusk has an
equal right with you or me TO life and the Gu
ioyment OF happiness. Why, are we not all
bruthers Are we not all children Of com.
mon Evolutionl What are we human animals
but the more favored members OF the great
familyi Is Senator Newton Of Massachusetts,
further removed in intelligence from the Aus
tralian bushman, than the Australian bush.
man or the Flathead Indian is removed from
the OK which Senator Newton orders slain to
yield food for his familyi Have we a right to
take the paltricst life that Evolution has CIV
emf Ia not the butchery OF an OK or of a
chicken murder--nay, fratricide--in the view
Of absolute lusticei Is It not cannlbalism OF
the most rcpulsive and cowardly sort TO prey
/
mails, and to sacrifice their lives and rights to
an unnatural appetite that has no foundation
save In the habit OF long ages Of barbarian
selhshnessW
| said Miss Clara, slowly. "Would you elevate
| them to the sufrage-I mean the OK and the
| chicken and the baboonm
There spoke The daughter OF the Senator
| from Massachusetts,h cried Wanlee. "No,
we would not give them the suffrage--at
| az at hp rfyht 10 liva nd
enjoy life Is a natural an inalenable right.
| The right 10 vote depends upon conditions Of
society and of individual intelligence. The
OK, the chicken, the baboon are not yet pre-
| pared for the ballot. But they are voters In
embryo; they are struggling up through the
same process that our own ancestors under
went, and 1t Is a crime, an unnatural, horrible
thing, to cut off their career, their future for
the sake of a mealln
Those are noble sentiments, | must ad-
nit" said Miss Newton, with considerable
| enthusiasm.
"They are the sentiments OF the Mongol-
Vegetarian party" said Wanlee. "They will
carry the country in 1910, and elect the next
| President Of the United States"
81 admire your earnestness," said Miss
| Newton after pause, "and will not grieve
| you by asking you TO bring me even so much
as chickens wing. do not think could
| eat 1t now with your words still in my ears.
A little fruit is all that want"
"Once more,n said Wanlee, taking the fair
| girls hand again, 81 must request you to
consider. The principles, my dearest, that
| have already enunciated are the principles of
| the great mass of our party. They are held
even by the respectable, easy-going, not over
sensitive voters such as constitute the bulk of
| every political organization. But there are
few of us who stand on ground still more ad-
vanced. We do not expect to bring the lag
CARDS up to our line for years, perhaps not in
our lifetime. We simply carry the accepted
theory to its logical conclusions and calmly
| await ultimate results
And what is your ground, prayf' she in
quired. 81 lcannot see how anything could be
| more dreadfully ralical-that is more bewil-
dering and generally upsetting at first sight
| than the ground which you just took"
" If what have said is true, and believe
1t to be true, then bow can we escape in
cludng the Vegetable Kingdom in our procla-
| nation OF emancipation from mans tyrannyl
The tree, the plant even the fungus, have
they not individual life, and have they not
also the right to live"
"But how
"And indeed,n continued the Chnaman,
not noticing theinterruption, " who can say
where vegetable life ends and animal life be-
| ginsi Science has tried in vain to draw the
| boundary line. l hold that to uproota potato
| is to destroy an existence certainly, although
perhaps remotely, akin to ours. To pluck a
| grape is to main the living vine; and to drink
the Juice of the grape is to outrage consan-
guinity. In this broad, elevated view of the
matter, 1t becomes a duty to refrain from veg
etable food. Nothing less than the vital
principle itself becomes the test and tie of
| universal brotherhood. All living things are
born free and equal, and have right to exist
ence and the enjoyment of existence Is not
that beautiful thoughtl'
" 1t is a beautiful thought" said the maid
en-. " Butt know you will think me dread
| fully cold, and practical, and unsympathetic
but how are zoe to livei Have ,Ce no right,
too, to existencel Must we starye to DEATH
IN order to establish the theoretical right of
vegetables not to be eaten2n
my dear love-" said Wanlee, " that would
be serious and perpleXing question, had not
the latest, discovery of science already solved
| 1t for u.s."
He took from his waistcoat pocket the small
gold box, scarcely larger than watch, and
opened the cover. In the palm of her white
hand he placed one of the little pastilles.
"Eatit," said he, sit will satisfy your hun
ger,n
She put the morsel into her mouth. al
would do as you bade ME" she said, "even if
it were poison.n
" 1t is not poison" he reioined. at is
nourishment in the only rational form"
But 1t Is tasteless; almost without sub
stance"
Yet it will support life for from eighteen
to twenty five days. This little gold box holds
food enough to afford subsistence to the en-
tire SeventY-sixth Congress for a month"
She took the box and curiously examined its
contents.
"And how long would it support my life
for more than year, perhaps~
Yes, for more than ten-more than twenty
years"
81 will not bore you with chemical and
physiological facts, - continued Wanlee; "but
you must know that the food which we take,
in whatever form, resolves itself into what are
called proXimate rinciples-starch, sugar,
oleine, fbrin, albumen, and so on. These are
selected and assimilated to the organs of the
body, and go to build up the necessary tissues.
But all these proximate principles, In their
turn, are simply combinations of the ultimate
chemical elements, chiefly carbon, nitrogen,
hydrogen and oxygen. 1t is upon these ele-
ments that we depend for sustenance By the
old plan we obtained them indirectly. They
passed from the earth and the air into the
grass; from the grass into the muscular It's
sues OF the OK; and from the beef into our
own persons, loaded down and encountered by
mass of useless, irrelevant matter. The
German chemists have discovered how to sup
ply the needed elements in compact, undiluted
form-here they are in this little box. Now
shall mankind go direct to the fountain head
OF nature for his ailment; now shall the old
| roundabout, cumbrous inhuman method be at
an end; now shall the evils of gluttony and its
attendant vices cease; now shall the brutal
numbering of fellow animals and brother vege-
tables forever stop-now shall all this be, since
the new, holy cause has been consecrated by
| the lips of loVe!n
He bent and kissed those lips. Then he sud
denly looked up and saw Mr.. Walsingham
Brown standing at his elbow.
"You are observed-compromised fear"
said Mr.. Brown, hurriedly. "That Italian
| dancer In your employ, Miss Newton has been
| following you like hound. have been pay
ing him the same gracious attention. He has
just left the Capitol post haste. fear there
may be q scene"
The brave girl, with clear eyes, gave her
| MOngOlian lover look worth To him n YEAR of
life. "There shall be no scene" she said !;
1--WE will go at once to my father, Daniel, and
bear ourselves the tale which francesca would
carry"
The three left the Capitol without delay.
tered great building, lighted as brilliantly
| as the Capitol itself. an elevator took them
down toward the bowels OF the earth. At the
fourth landing they passed from the elevator
into small carriage, luxuriously upholstered.