The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-15
sLANDERING THE COW.

1t sometimes seems as if it were
really dangerous to life for man to
live-as if in coming upon earth one
took his life in his hand, so to speak,
and from that moment until his heart
ceased to beat and his lungs to act, he
was constantly beset by dangers to his
very existence. Now here comes new
peril and it is one to which we have all,
since before the food, unconsciously
been subjected. From the earliest
ages man has regarded the cow as his
best friend, and from the beginning
milk and beef have been largely the
diet of the human family, because they
were regarded as healtbtul and
strengthening. 1t seems, however, that
during all these centuries, the
human family have been mistaken,
for congress of physicians has just
greatest is the COW, and that beef and
milk are the prime and chief causes of
that incurable disease, consumption.
If it would not be deemed preslmptiye
and as casting doubt upon the declara-
ton of the learned doctors, we would
suggest that not only have milk and
beef been the food of people from the
earliest ages, but those who live chiefly
on meat, as the American Indians,
know comparatively little of tuber-
culosis; while the disease is common in
cities among those who are forced to
eat sparingly of meat because of its
cost. Il may also be said that
physicians have long recommended
beef blood as remedy for
consumption, though this may have
been on the theory that the hair of the
dog will cure the bite.
We are of the opinion that in this
matter as in many other things. the
doctors have been guessing" They
were at a loss to account for the
prevalence of consumption, and
thought that as everybody ate beef and
drank milk, perhaps those articles
caused the disease. In this instance,
not many people will be frightened by
the medical mems scare. The cow will
continue to be mans best friend in
spite of all the ISLANDERS the doctors can
heap upon the patient creature.
The GOVERNOR of Colorado has called
convention of delegates from the
States and Territories west of the Mis-
sissippi River to meet in Denver on
the 28th instant, for the purpose of in
teresting the Great West in deep
water port On the Texas coast, which
will give the commerce of this vast re-
gion an outlet to the markets of the
world by a short, direct and cheap
route. In the call it is asserted that the
only difficulty at present is the fact
that the seattle great economic path
way of commerce that the We wants
to reach-is SO near, yet deep-draught
vessels cannot get close enough in shore
to take away the products that the
country wants to ship. The object,
then, of this interstate deep harbor
convention is to interest and unite the
people of the West in the effort to Sc
cure deep water port that shall admit
our imports and take away our pro-
ducts at the lowest possible cost. With
deep harbor on the Texas coast fully
80 per cent. in freightage will be saved,
amounting to millions of dollars annu-
ally on the p roducts of the soil, the
output of mines and our incoming
merchandise. The subject of storage
reservoirs for reclaiming by irrigation
millions of acres of public lands now
valueless. and other commercial topics
will be pre- sented for elaboration.