The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-19

Esss 10 sAe s4ase ana comes home
6sAstEng boz cheap - eo0Id and did
|ny busser q 1lr. 4. 3 or C's s1ore. or
Martha or Susan. o. sone Cfner
uould-se housewife tells her neighoor
how cheap sic toaghf that pepper and
cloves and aIi<psre. all ag4ov with
pride At having driven . good bargain
L dos qsen 4 little erue3 70 awaken
them from fheir dream By telling ehe
had a The bouse that be has bought
fallou. lard and cous u1kier mixed IN
stead 81 butter. and the gu0d lnassOn
that her spice bottles contained about
f~o-fhiras saudusf. sand. -four and
the Ike, 70 that after ali her purchase
Was not 80 cheap that she need boast
Of ik And ret this very thing Is done
time and again by the mAtsons o.
seattle and every city and town IN
Washington Territory.
There sre some things that we are
hardly willing 10 believe. even when
shey are seen with our own eyes; soiise
things that are done that would seem
incredible. did we mot know them -
he true. So with this Ee have been
describing. had we not official data 70
back up the statements made, ore
would shriEk from making such
sweeping assertions, though he knew
il was perfectly true. Here We are
eating tons Of sawai1st and calling IL
spices, thousands OF tons OF grease and
calling il batter; drinking bo1sheAd
after hogshead os water and calling Il
milk. yet lift not hand to protect
ourselves against ourselves, but
rather encourage il by the universal
cry of ekeapirgs- We deserve rs 3
community Just what we got. and We.
il would seem that the punishment
had gone about far enough; thSt it
was about time that We called halt
70 see whittier We are drifting
II Is often said that you touch .
man pocket. you interest him at once.
II would seem that II you touched his
health. and that OF his family. you
would gain his undivided and fixed at
tenfion not only for the time being,
but for all time to come, in the one
case ii be il loser-out of pocket-he
can reylenish. but who can say that
he can regain his health. or cornpen-
safe for the lack OF the healthy devel-
opment OF his childreny The loss Of
health once incurred, may never be re-
gained. Then.--shall our grocers COLI
tinue TO buy and sell cheap butter Tor
oleomargarinef -buy and sell cheap
condiments solely because they are
cheap; the milkman. TO give fun meas
ure vet cheap. Shall the cry only be
cheap. cheap, cheap meanwhile for
getting the question Of quality? If so
il is to be: II this cry is yet to be and
continue, then viii the supply contin-
uc and the water viii go into the milk I;
the saw-dust into the spices; the
grease into the butter, and there will
still continue that longing for some
thing good that will not come.
While this may all happen, and while
our mouths may not water at the
thought of food; while we may con-
tinue - eat from sense Of duty or
from mere cofnpulsion to sustain life,
the world will continue to go around,
and we will stick by it and 60 around
with it, yet who viii not say that he
would not live healthier, better, life,
had he had pure food while on the
earth. We seem to live as though we
had forgotten that each was day I'M
to itself. and that good dinner miss
ed. could never be found. for that day
never returns.
Next week we shall have something
TO say about drink adulterants, in
which field there is much to fix our at
tention, as well as in matters of food.