Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-02
MANS DESTRUCTIVE GREED.
Modern Agriculture, Bible Prophecy and
Prof. Mason's Representation.

Troi- hdsohS frOsnostIcatlOnb.
To the Editor of The Evening Star
1t is a significant fact that what men have
praised so much as DEVELOPMENT of the re-
sources of the country a statesman prophet
over 2 900 years before your article by Prof
Mason was written should describe as '.devour-
ing the whole earth" and shall tread lit down
and break it in pieces" The professor might
furnish your readers with fa- more exhaus-
tive paper ON the genius of this fourth form of
government with a much more numerous
category of evils, which man of the nineteenth
century has inflicted upon his own race and
posterity- Where are the old grist mills which
ground up the wheat of our fathers without
any patent elimination of the gluten that the
Creator had made indispensable to man for
nerve food? The present patent roller pro-
cesses, giving Us only the starch. as though they
would say they are more intelligent than God
has kept the race up to this century from being
the victims of neuralgia, dyspeptic, paralytic
nemesis TO their departure from the simples of
primitive man to the compounds of this age
which requires 100 COO doctors to physe 60, 600 :
900 people.
And what is the real reason? The accu1nu-
laton Of wealth at the expense of the life of the
people
Where is the old system Of farming its fallow
land, rotation of crops. its fbrous mAnures its
work for its laborers three hundred and thir-
yoracious nav of the man who plants wheat
by steam and electricity yecr after year (o-
corn, as 1t may be-, until the particular food
taken up By the plant becomes utterly ex-
hausted instead of rotating crops. that one ele-
ment may be renewed while another is being
used For this cause also We are indebted to
the influx Of pests Of insectivora-
What can be more false or destructive to the
race than the cleaning and marketing all the
crops by machinery Immediately instead of by
the slower method of the fail and hand fan
which would keep our laborers employed ali
the year instead of six or eight months at
farthest? What has become Of the old custom
OF allowing the poor to CLEAN the fallen ears
After the shocks are carted TO the stack? Gone
into the greedy claws of the rake which takes
no thought for the poor and needy. What has
become of the old system of making all the
straw into manure to be returned to the landY
Gone into the superficial or artificial fertilizer
company's bags of ground stone deodorized
blood, bones dessicated with more than their
own weight Of muriatic acid, ground phos-
pilates and other trash, into which is injected
enough ammonia to cause a crop to spring up,
but at the expense of the dislntegration Of
whatever Is alkaline or alluvial- Thousands of
our modern farmers have no more sense than
10 add to the expense of labor $40 to $50 per
acre for these manures, which increase the
watery constituents of vegetables and fruits SO
That In Florida II Is almost impossible to get
green peas or strawberries to New York markets
In anything approaching good condition.
What happens to the lal rer who is forced to
be idle many months every year? He becomes
an agitstor, revolutionist, menace. II Won
want solid, secure government keep men en-
Ployed-
With fair usage Nevada might have lasted a
thousand years, but it is with the resources of
Tie country as IL Is with a man liver.
You can draw on either of them for small
amounts and the principal will last all the
allotted time Of man, but check il out in large
amounts and the case will be the same. as in
the Carolnas, where men after deyourinp the
yellow pine in their own borders must migrate
20 Georgia and Florida and devour them also.
The man forces his liver to digest compounds.
pastry. meats, legumes, variety innumerable
richness al sensuum It'll dart strikes through
his liver and he hardly has time left him TO
wish he had learned how 10 don't"
By all means ask Prof. Mason to enlighten
the country more and more upon this matter
for the result of all this eryersion of the
blessings Of God are predicted to issue in the
sitting Of the Judgement the taking away of
our dominion and TO ~0nsume and DESTROY unto
the enc Daniel. vi: 70.
On q sun dial at Brazenore College. Oxford.
are printed the words: "Pereant ct imputan,
tur, anc upon the conscience is also printed
IN words which will burn us with fire il we do
not heed our responsibility as well as our gifts
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