Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-09
CHEESE IT IS THE CRY
Is 1t True This Solidifed Form Of
Milk Finds Few Takers
SINCE SALOOHS>WERE DECIMATED9
Very Interesting Suggestion as to Cheese
Prohibition, ifso.
ALCOHOL TO BE HAD IN MANY WAYS.

1t is said the knocking out Of saloons in
this county has diminished the sale of cheese
% per cent. Certain articles of food and
drink seem to be associated. An English
man would not thank you for cold roast
beef unless he could have mustard to put on
it snd most people want mustard with a
ham sandwich. With many, perhaps most
people, breakfast would be incomplete
without coffee, and with most, coffee is not
complete without cream, and with others
without sugar; some do not consider the
beverage finished unless complemented by
sugar and cream both, and others still add
rum or brandy.
Apple sauce goes with goose, cranberry
sauce with turkey, wafles and mashed po-
tatoes with chicken, etc. The experience of
food caterers among civilization seems to
group certain kinds of food and drink to-
gether, either on gustatory or sanitary prin-
ciples, of which ''hale" and cakes, beer and
pretzels, etc., are also examples, and certain
wines are designated for table use; and,
WITH THE FAsTIDIoUs,
it would not be in good form to use any
others at meals, no matter whether the ap-
petite craved them or not These sticklers
probably attach the same weight to fashion
in this instance that they do to the convey
ance Of food to the mouth with the proper
instruments. OF course the shoveling of
food into the mouth by means of knife
blade is Objectionable on the grounds of de-
cency, where no butter knives are put on
the butter plates, or where the butter is not
distributed to each guest; but the offense of
drinking coffee, chocolate or tea from
saucer, it would seem, might be put on the
catalogue OF social sins as a pardonable one.
What is the connection between cheese
and stimulants, vinous or spirituous? If it
be demonstrated that they go together, what
is the corollary? Do spirits create taste
for cheese, or does cheese create thirst for
spirits? There may be more in these ques-
tions than is appreciable by superficial OBJ
servers. If the consumption of spirits as
beverages be an unmixed evil, and if it
should be shown that indulgence in cheese
creates a craving for whisky, might it not
be we'll to abolish the manufacture of
cheese?
WHY NOT CHECK CHEESE?
1t is admitted by sound constitutional law
yers that if majority in State consider
the manufacture of anything an evil, that
majority may suppress it, without regard to
vested rights, vested tastes and all historical
notions. Some extreme temperance people
regard the cultivation of rye. or other grain
good for distilling purposes, apples, hops,
etc., an evil; but, if the use Of cheese is
calculated to develop an appetite
for stimulants, its manufacture should
surely. be prohibited, as the list
of articles from which alcohol
can be gotten is SO great, that no hope can
be entertained that the source of supply can
be cut of. 1t can even be gotten cheaply
out of sawdust, and, were all fruits and
grains destroyed, there is fear that the
worlds forest would soon be denuded, and
when such was the case what would there be
to prevent thirsty world from tearing up
even railway ties to get supply of eye
opener?
The possibilities one shudders to contem-
plate, and as prevention is better than cure,
why not shut down cheese factories, until
scientists shall determine the status?