The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-06
Prohibition of Pie Demanded. Nor

FFOAlbRlhOn u
work for the Kansas legislature
a hearty God speed will be given by
the cultured and more self denying
portion of the people of our state, to a
plea from one who seeks to benefit his
fellow men by pointing out the follies
that they are subjected to. AS lab
orer for many years in the vineyards of
prohibition I am unwilling to pause
at the threshold of the noble work
that has been begun. The glorious re-
suits of prohibition are in their infancy.
Whisky, with all its dangers, does not
stand alone as the greatest enemy OF
mankind. There are other evils lurk-
ing at his door that needs prohibiting.
The best medical minds will agree on
examination of the composition of ar
tlcles of our daily food, that the heresy
in diet is if anything, more prevalent
and dangerous to the people of the
state of Kansas than the use of al
cholic stimulants. Take, for instance,
the frightful frequency of the use of
pie in the house hold. 1t is estimated
that every resident of this state above
the age of five years, is in the habit OF
consuming pie at least twice day. A
more appalling picture of recklessnesS
and wide spread intemperance
has never before been presented
1t would seem like an insult to offer
to inform the intelligent reader of the
deadly nature of pie, as all know that
| it's vital principle, without which it
would lose its identity is crust. This
essentially poisonous article enters into
every pie. There are some forms OF
| pie, however, which contain compar-
| atively small percentage of this noxious
element just as there are lntoxlcS ting
beverages which contain but little al
cohol. The open work pumpkin pie.
having no upper crust, contains only
half the poison that is found in the
double crusted mInce PIE. A confirmed
pie eater is not content to commit slow
suicide upon the less harmful pumpkin
pie but his vitiated appetite demands
many degrees each of the cOarser and
more dangerous mince pie. like the
drunkard who begins with beer but
ends with brandy the person who &C
quireS taste fer pumpkin pie sinks
surely and rapidly into the grave OF
the confirmed mince pie debauchee. II
the sight of the wan features and
sunken eyes of the drunkard are sad
dening to the philanthropist, how must
he shrink from the horror of the spec
tacle of the mother pressing To the lips
of infancy the pie that induced
physical and moral dyspepsia and
brings Them down with collie to the
grave Let no one be deceived by the
vain Bretence of those who seek to de
. fend the vicious habits of pie-eaters Oh
by the interested clamor of the keep
erS of corner pie shops. Pie is dan
gerous ingredient, a dangerous enemy
to digestion. It contributes in no wa,
to the formation of tissue. Its habltua
use is certain to undermine the health
and to deteIiorate the morals of the user
The taste for this deadly article is
wholly an artificial one. And no infant
in its primal state of innocence has al
appetite for pie. That fearfully fata
appetite is acquired later on. Otter
fostered by misguided parents. Ol
the evils which creates intemperanc'
pie is the most dangerous. 1t is abou
time that this subject attracted the at
tention of legislative and ecclesiastical
bodies. Our state prohibits the sale o.
intoxicating drinks, but the glaring IN
consistency places no interdlct upon
, pies. Even the members of our legis
! iative bodies have been seen to pas!
: into the gllded dens where pie is Openl!
sold. Some of them carry pie upOI
their person and eat it with shameless
. effrontery in their very seats. Oul
. legislature should prohibit this infa-
, nous traffic. We propose DeXt to de
!, nounce tobacco and secret societies
but first let the state put its seal OF con
. domination upon pie and ask all goOC
, citizens to pledge themselves to abstain
from pie in every form and thereby adj
the influence of their example to tn
sacred cause of the overthrow of tn
pie demon before it is too late.
: CRUSADER.