The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-04

t1r hlm 10 send ihem 10 his enemesg III you
are going to Kill people with kindness, why
NJ. kill your enemies rather than YOU
friendt~ Now DO doubt both the Courei
aud the Ledger meant to say something
facsiious 10 the foregoing remarks, intended
their words to have humorous sense, bu'
they signhlly failed. We do not know any,
hing sbIialhe Buffalo Courier, but believe
1t to DO q genloel journal, Incapable OF in
tentionally mialesding any person, The
New York Ledger we know weuld not say
sught that it believed for an instant would
work harm or engender In the mind of any
msn, woman or child living, an erroneous
opinion. Yet, in this effort on the part OF
both theAe papers to say something funny,
they have uttered that which 10 calculated
10 deceive, that has tendency to make
people fear squashes, cucumbers and water
melons ssartices of food. They indirectly and
by implication, at least, characterize them
rs indgegtibr. This is not the case.
Squashes and cucumbers are both palstable,
healthy, nutritious vegetables. The percent
age of nutrition they contain ia small, it is
true, as compared with tho beat or beans, or
many other vegetables we might name; still
they have come nutrition, and they are
harmless rs articles of food, while tho wateIN
melon is delicious and most nutritve arti-
clio Of diets luxury indeed. 1t is not
tho vegetables the people of the land eat
that impairs their digestion, that makes
them dyspeptic, that ruins the functions of
the liver and the stomach, but the rich and
highly seasoned soups and fishes and meats,
along with the deserts, CONNECTIONS, pastries
and puddings that find their way 10 the
tables of tho rich and middle classes the
wines and beers and stronger drinks that,
like raging wild beasts stalking through the
country, carry destruction and misery with
them. God gave vegetables to man
as articles Of food. They are the
natural growth of the earth and II is only
mans invention that has given to the world
alcoholic drinks and the rich and dainty
dishes ofthe culinary artists, if we so style
the cooks. 1t 10 true that God gave US the
boasts of The field that we might have meat
too but nature prompts the manner in which
it should DO prepared for table use, and 1t Is
the attempts to improve on nature that
makes them hurlful. Fidelity 10 nature is
the grand secret of life, is the philosophers
stone which insures hesltL, happinss and
contentmeDt. In the primitive days of the
world, Ia the times Of Abraham and the |
other patrisrchs, when man vas true 10
nature, he was happier, he had but little of
care, no was houest and pure, he suffered
mono of the ills that flesh ia now heir to-
knew nothing of dyspepsia and its kindred
ailments, but lived simply on the vegetables
and fruits Of the Garth, with the contributions
ofhis aocks and herds. This sin of intem-
perance is the curse Of all the earth. We
mean not intempersRce in its restriction of
tho abuse of alcoholic drinks, but the intem-
perance ofeatng, of dressing -intempersnce
indeed, in all things, in religion even. 1t 10
the intemperance of eating that has
led to the various theories ex-
tant on tie dietary question, that
has begotten tho volaries of graham bread
diet of an exclusively vegetable cuisine or an
entirely meat diet. In other words, an
excess, I'm extreme has led to many ex-
tremes. SO it is in religion.
II is the incorporate zsal Of
so many religionists tina. has given birth
to lugorsolllsm, to spirituslism, to Agnost.
cism, to Bseoherism-to all the religious and
anti-relisious isms of tho sge. The Moodys
and 5ankoysof the land, the Talmages, tho
salvation armies, The ssnctiilcstionis.s In
their unreason, their violation OF religious
license assnil christianity more aad wound il,
~ greater degree than any other force Satan
can bring TO bear against it, Like the pro-
hibtionisls, they become as incorporate Us
intomperOnce itself, and fatally damage their
cau,o by going to the eShcmea they do.
While some of our premises and conclusions
may seem 10 DO very foreign to squ,shos,
cucun bers and watermclons still they aid TO
point tie moral we are striving 10 set forth
never, even though it DO in jest say that
which may mislead others, may produce
wrong impressions, may have tendency to
work injury.