The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-26

The beneticent physical, moral. go
,ial. financial and aesthetic advantages
If vegetable food are insisted upon by
the members of the vegetarian congress
at Chicago. AMI zach advantage is lauded
IS >,ilutary in the highest degree. Pro-
fessor Mayor, a well known classical
scholar of St. Johns college. Cambridge,
AYERS that vesetariaas suffer but little
from thirst. They are 'set free from
crr wings which the world without hears
as the voice of instinct. strong. inperi-
Gus, in~exora1le." He drinks a glass Of
lemonade 1T .:15 =. III. from habit rath-
er than to slake thirst and he some
times takes q swig of milk at railway
stc ion restaurants Ito encourage r
dairy at the expense Of the brewery.
Thus. so faS as he is concerned, thirst Is
abolished. He needs no drink of any
kind.
The English soldiers and civil servants
in the tYopic stretches of Asia and Afri-
ca have only to follow Professor Mayors
example. Thus the valne OF vegetarian
ism to milit"rv science becomes evident.
In fact. not ..ierely the operations of the
connmissary department, but the whole
art Of war would be wonderfully changed
| and simplifed if Mr.. Thomas Atkins
would forswear meat. Professor Mayer
has not attained his victory over thirst
without sacrifices, at which the grosser
race of meat eaters will grin. For in
stance. he takes the white Of an egg.
neat. without salt or pepper. Thus he
avoids the indictments to thirst and
keeps his palate in condition to receive
with raptprc that British vegetable. the
Brussels sprout. Doubtless a vegetari-
an palate. long brought up on herbs
and grasses and salads guiltless of condi-
ment. becomes capable of receiving savo-
nv sensations from dishes of the simplest
sort. and a turnip picked up in the fur
row NAV be sweeter than a stalled OK
tenderloin.
We hope that Professor Mayor will
now 90 on to the abolition of hunger.
He has put thirst away from him. and
there seems no reason why he should be
less successful with its running mate.
OF course he will be allowed to nibble a
radish now and cnen from habit. even
after he has conquered imperious, mex
orable instinct. The economic advan.
tages arising from the abolition OF thirst
would be very great. and Professor May
or has it in his power. if he can get the
worlds hunger throttled, to add NOR
mouslv to the wealth of the world. Still
greater would be the saving if the world
would eat vegetables from habit only.
It's cheaper to keep "a COW than a man.
We are afraid. however. that the major
itv of men would go on perpetual STRIKE
if the necessity of eating and drinking
were removel. SO that there would be =
loss of wealth after all. But what's the
use of being wealthy if you can become
heartily and %virtnous by eating vegeoa-
bles only.
The profound moral which vegetarian
ism holds for prohibitionists is obvious.
The consumption of flesh" says a vese-
tartan resolution. creates a thirst Tor
Intoxicating liquors and should be aban-
doned by ali who desire to promote tenn
porance reform" This goes to the roo;
of the matter. Prohibiting grapes aA,1
o and hops and apples wouldn't be
enough. There will always be some in
toxicant rs long as men continue TO be
subject to the demands Of thirst. Here
the real gold cure. the elixir Of temper
ance. the pill of prohibition. Prohibition
and garden sass" one and rnseparable,
now and forever! Nor is intemperance
the only evil which will not and canno,
grow in the garden. DIR. Paul Foster OF
Berlin is confident that the adoption OF
vegetarian principles will lend the wa,
between the poor and the rich. solve the
{ social problem. complete the work of re
ligion and in all ways ameliorate the un'
happy condition of the human race"
Reflect upon these things, erring car
~nivores, and think that every time You
order a beefsteak at the butchers, you
are ordering unhappiness, the d~eteriora
ton of the human race and the debase
ment Of society. Go to the grocer's and
buy a peck of potatoes and some cucum
!, bers and a plug of tobacco, and carry
! peace and potency of social regeneration
1 home to your cook. Who can tell tina
the future of Europe may not be peace
ful if Professor Foster car induce th'
German emperor to live upon string
. beans and asparagus tips for a few
months? Will anybody pretend tina
Ezzelino might not have been a man a
|, mild as milk if he had been restricted t.
r a diet of spaghetti in his youth? Doe
E anybody suppose that Jefreys live
e upon olives:
In addition to the moral. physical an'
economic advantages Of vegetable die
there is the Rsthetical advantage. Mrs
Bruce, the English woman whose pape
on The Esthetics Of vegetarianism
o was read at the congress, believes tina
meat eating is opposed to idealism
while vegetarianism has much to oife
that connects it with the highest ant
u best in life. The highest aspect of veg
!. etarianism is estheticism. 1t is full O
! vital truth and beauty" We now Sc
!. why Mr.. Oscar Wilde ate h~uckleberrie
when he was in the United States. Usin