Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-03-15
DIET.
It's Application to the Everlasting Chinese
Question.

What shall we eat +? Not ex-
clusively vegetables as some of our
modern health reform ers and WISE
acres would tell US, such food be-
ing only fit for the lower order of
animals. Look at the lion as a
meat eating animal and the ass as
vegetarian, consider the vast su-
periority of the former in muscular
strength and physical power.
Therefore if you would be like a
lion, eat meat--if you are an ass,
eat vegetables. The tiger, meat
eater, is a match for the huge ele.
phant, vegetarian.
The most active and beautiful of
the fish tribe are those that subsist
upon each other. Now it seems a
self.evident fact that the most suit
able food for man is that which
contains all the essential properties
and in exactly the same proper
tions of which our own physical
system is composed. AS the i'm NOR
tai Pope correctly says, "The
proper food for man is man, And
although it is out of fashion in
these degenerate days for men to
eat each other, yet it seems clear
that such a diet is more capable
than any other Of building up the
most perfect physical organization
and of developing the highest form
of life. (See Darwin.)
But aside from the great import
ance of this subject as u hygienic
measure, there are other motives of
the highest import, which urge
upon US its adoption, considered
from a humanitarian standpoint.
The adoption of this measure of
reform would relieve society of all
its burdens. 1t would effectually
settle the Chinese question, with
out any legislation by Congress
or the abrogetion OF the Burlingame
treaty. Let them come to our
shores, the more the better. They
would all be eaten. By abolishing
this beneficent policy we could
turn the tables on the thousands of
tramps that infest the country and
utilize them in the same way. And
all our criminals might be thus dis
posed of, so that all those relics of
barbarism -jails. chain gangs,
prisons and penitentiaries-would
be no longer needed. Now here is
a plan by which all the veXed
questions of the day that are even
now threatening the peace of the
community and the prosperity of
the government may be surely and
effectually settled = simply by
eating. We should agitate this
subject and inaugurate as soon as
possible this much needed reform.
And may we not hope that the
time will soon come when the sur
plus population will he so thinned
out that there will be good room in
the world to getaround and breathe
easy in; when there will no longer
be ten men TO Revery dollar, nor
forty working men to every job of
work; when men will love each
other in the true sense; when all
the ills Of life are ended; feasting
instead of famine; smiles instead
of tears.
THOMAS TIMOTHY TUGMUTToN.
[We think it would be good
idea to begin the reform suggested
above by roasting and eating
Thomas Timothy Tugmutton, but
we are afraid that that PERSONS
carcass is too thoroughly saturated
with tobacco smoke and whisky TO
make the experiment an agreeable
one. Tugmutton is superior TO
Nautilus in at least ono respect.
The latter dwelt upon the growing
inconvenience of a redundant pop
ulation, while the former suggests
remedy.-EDIToR HERALD.