The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-02-15

ono Of those ave courses between soup
and almond nuts and feel they were IN
heaven. Tho lack Of the right kind o.
food d the cause OF much Of the drunk
enness. After drinking what many
Of our 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 30 miserable they are
tempted to put into their nasty pipes
what the tobacconist calls tobacco, or
no into the drinking saloons for what
the rum sellers call beer. Good coffee
would do much in driving out bad
rum. Adulteration Of food has got to
be an evil against which all the health
officers and all the doctors and all the
ministers and all the reformers and all
the Christians need to set themselves
in battle array. How can we serve
our generation with enough to eat9 BY
sitting down in embroidered slippers
and longing back in an arm chair,
our mouth puckered up around Ha-
vana of the best brand and through
clouds of luxuriant smoke reading
about political economy and the phi!os-
ophy Of strikes9 Mol Mol BY finding
out who in Brooklyn has been living on
gristle and sending them tenderloin
beefsteak. Seek out some family who
through sickness or conjunction OF
misfortune have not enough to eat and
do for them what Christ did for the
hungry multitudes of Asia Minor,
multiplying the loaves 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 see on small scale q
recklessness about the welfare Of others
which a great warrior expressed on q
large scale, when his officers were dis
suading him from certain campaign,
saying: 1T would cost two hundred
thousand lives" replying with a
diabolism that can never be forgotten,
"What are two hundred thousand
lives to me9"
So far from helping appease the
worlds hunger, there are those whom
Isaiah describes as grinding the faces
of the poor. You have seen farmer
or mechanic put scythe or an ak
on a grindstone, while some one was
turning it round and round, and the
man holding the ak bore on it harder
and harder while the water dropped
from the grindstone, and the edge Of
the ak from being round and dull, got
keener and keener, and the mechanic
lifted the AK glistening and sharp and
with edge so keen he must cautiously
run his finger along lest while exam
ming the implement he cut his hand
to the bone. So have seen men who
were put against the grindstone Of
hardship, and while one turned the
crank another would press the unfor-
tunate harder down and harder down
until he was ground away thinner and
thinner, his comforts thinner, his
prospects thinner and his face thinner.
And Isaiah shrieks out: What mean
We that We grind the faces of the poorp"
It is an awful thing to be hungry. It
is an easy thing for us to be in good
humor with all the world when we
have no lack. But let hunger take
full possession of us and we would all
turn into barbarians and cannibals
and fends. @
am glad to know that the time is
coming, God hasten it, when every
family in the round world will sit
down at full table, and it will be
only a question between lamb and
venison, or between partridge and
quail on toast, and out of spoons made
out of Nevada silver or California
gold the pastries will drop on
tongues thrilling with thankfulness
because they have full enough. l
have no idea God is going to let the
human race stay in its present predic-
ament. If the world winds up as it
now is it will be an awful failure of
a world. The barren places will be
irrigated. The pomologists, helped
of God, will urge on the fruits The
inspired of the Lord, will
help on the gardens. The raisers OF
stock will send enough animals fit for
human food to the markets, and the
last earthquake that rends the world
will upset banqueting table at which
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suppose that some OF the
energy we are expanding in useless
and unavailing talk about the bread
question should be expended in mer-
ciful alleviations.
THE GREATEST BATTLE FIELD.
have read that the battle field on
which more troops met than on any
other in the worlds history was the
battle field of Leipsic, 100000 men
under Napoleon, $500 men under
Schwarzeberg. No, no. The greatest
and most terrific battle is now being
fought all the world over. 1t is the
struggle for food. The ground tone
of the finest passage in one of the great
musical masterpieces, the artist says,
was suggested to him by the cry of the
hungry populace of Vienna as the
king rode through and they shouted,
Bread. Give us bread" And all
through the great harmonies Of mu-
steal 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 as far as possible that they
have enough to wear. God looks on
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