Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-23

heaven The lack OF the ripht kind OF
food IS the cause Of much of the drunk.
enness. After drinking what many OF
u grocers call coffee, sweetened
with what many call sugar, and eat.
ing what many Of our butchers call
meat, and chewing what many OF our
bakers call bread, many of the labor
ing classes feel SO miserable they are
tempted to put into their nasty pipes
what the tobacconist calls tabacco. or
go into the drinking saloons for what
The rum sellers call beer. Good coffee
would DO much ia driving out bad
rum. Adulteratlon OF food has rot %
be an evil against which all the health
officers and all the doctors and all the
ministers and all the refoymers and all
me Christians need to set themselves
Ia battle array. How can we serve
our generation with enough TO eat? BY
sitting down in embroidered slippers and
louEglnE back IN al arm chair, u mouth
puCktfcd up around q Havana OF the best
brand and through clouds OF luXuriant
smoke reading about political economy
ana the philosophy OF strikes? No! Nol
By finding out who in Brooklyn has been
living on gristle and scading them q
tenderiom beefsteak. Seek out some
family who through sickness or conjunc.
ton of misfortune have not enough to
eat and do for them what Christ did for
the hungry multltudcs Of Asia Minor,
multiplying the lOavcs and the fishes.
Let US quit the surfeiting Of ourselves
until we cannot choke down another
crumb Of cake and begin the supply Of
others necessities.
We often sec on % small scale of reck-
lessness about the welfare OF others
which a great warrior expressed on q
large scale, when his officers were dis
suading him from a certain campaign,
saying: 1T would cost two hundred
thOusandlives replying with adiaboliem
that can never be forgotten. "What are
two hundred thousand lives 10 meY'
So far from helping appcase the worlds
hunger, there are those whom Isaiah de-
scribes as grinding the faces OF the poor.
You have seen a farmer or a mechanic
put a scythc or an AK on a gr~indstone.
while some Il was turning il round ard
round, and the man holding the AK bore
pa it harder and harder while the water
dropped from the grindstone, and the
edge OF The az from being round and dull,
got kecner and k%eenrr, and the mechanic
lifted the AK clustering and sharp and
with edge 80 keen he must cautiously run
his finger along lest while examining the
implement he cat his hand TO the bone.
So | have sUen men who were put against
the gIindstone Of hardship, and while one
turned the crank another would press the
unfortunate harder down and harder
down until be WIS ground away thinner
and thinner, his comforts thinner, his
prospects thinner and his face thinner.
And Isaiah shneks out: What mean we
that We grind the faces Of the pOort' 1t
is an awful thing TO be hungry. II is an
easy thing for rs 10 be in good humor
with all the world when we have no Jack.
But let hunger take full possession Of us
and we would all turn into barbarians and
cannibals and fends.
| an glad to know that the time ia
coming. God hasten il, when every fam
lis in the round world will sit down AT a
full table, and ii Will be only u question
between lamb and venisOn, or between
partridge and quail on toast, and out Of
the spoons made out OF Nevada silver or
California gold the pastries Will drop on
tongues thrilling with thankfulness be
cause they have fuli enough. ! have no
idea SOD is going TO let tie human rage
stay IN is present pvedicaTent. ii the
world winds UP as il now IS il VII be an
awful failure of 4 world. The barren
places ain ba irrigated. The p3mol.
o-.sts, helped ~ God, VIII urge en- She
fruits. The bott1lsts, inspired Of the
Lord, VIII no'p on the gaIGeas. The
raisers Of stock VII serI cu0Geh animals
1T for human food TO the markets, Hn.
tc" last earthquake that rcnds the world
Viii upset q banque.iug sable IT
which are seated the eAGfg human
race. Meanwhile suppose that some Of
he energy we are J%Npcndlng IN useless
and unayailiug talk aJoutthe bread Q"es-
ton should be expended in mcrciful ale
yialions.
THE GREATEST BATTLE FIELD.
J have read that the battle field on
when more troops met than OF any other
in the worlds history was the battle field
Of Leipaie, 100, 0d0 men under Napoleon,
25G, 900 men under Schwarzebtrg. No,
ne. The greatest and mos terrific battle
ia now being fought all the world over.
Ii is the struggle for food. The ground
tone of the finest passage in one OF the
great musical masterpieces, the artist
BiDh ~ SuEEISiNh ~ III Wy thC 'Iy VI
the hungry populace of Vienna as the
king rode Though and they shouted,
Bread. Give us bread And ali
through the great harmonies of musical
academy and cathedral | hear the pathos,
the ground tone, the tragedy OF %uncounted
multitudes, who with streaming eyes and
wan cheeks and broken hearts in behalf
Of themselves and their families, are
pleading for bread.
Let us take another look around to see
how we may serve our generation. Let
us see IA far as possible that they have
enough TO wear. God looks on the human
race and knows just how many inhabit-
ants the world has. The statistics OF the
worlds population are carefully taken in
civilized lands, and every few years Of
fcers Of the government 60 through the
land and count how many people there
are in the United States or England and
great accuracy is reached. But when
people tell us how many inhabitants there
are in Asia or Africa, at best it must be a
wild guess, Yet God knows tie exact
number Of people on our planet and he
has made enough apparel for each, and if
there be 1900. 015, 515 people then there
is enough apparel for 300 0l5, 5l5. Not
slouchy apparel, not ragged apparel,
not insufficient apparel, but ap-
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