The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-22
CANDY CRUSADE COMING
So Says Pastor Gates, Who
Cries Out Against Eat
ing It-A Disease
Producer.
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SWEETS ARE DANGEROUS
He breads the Time When the
Fight Against 1t Begins, But
Will Join In.

Those who attended Grace NJ. E. Church
on TonneIe avenue last evening must
have been convinced that candy is u posi-
lively injurious article. The pastor, tue
Rev. M. l.. Gates, preached a red hot cru
SADIE against the succharine mixture, as a
prelude to the discourse. The subject OF
the short preliminary talk was The
Candy Shop and Mr.. Gates dealt with
the shop in much the same manner as
temperance preachers wade through theli
pet grog shops.
"The temperance man." began Pastor
Gates, 'shas a hare battle before him !
believe that a crusade has been estao-
lished against tobacco. pm glad OF IL,
but we'll next hear of a crusade not ouly
against rum and tobacco, but against
candy. Thread that day when this battle
shall commemorative candy crusade.
When it Is i~naugura.ed we Will md
there are plenty of people against us, and
we will be repealed at many points.
When we enlist In the ranks there Will o.
trouble.
RUINED.
Y5ut think OF the thousands of little
children whose very lives are ruined by
excess of candy eating. Us enor-
nous the amount of candy gobbled up by
these children. Many is the time that |
have sat at the deathbed of a child, try
ing TO reconcile the heartbroken mother
by telling her that a mysterious Proyl-
dence must lave taken off her child.
while all the time | knew that candy did
ir. had to lie. That is a time when 1t is
not wrong to say what we don't mean.
And mauy's the time ! have ascriDed
death to that mysterious Providence,
and knew whgt was the real cause.
Our food contains sufficient sugar Tor
our proper noutishment. There is
enough sugar in our food and drink. Oar
TIA aud coffee has enough in it for proper
assimilation. Ii we buy one Coats
worth Of sugar, we have au overplus OF
il. It produces fermentation and thai
makes assidity OF the blood, aud is dan
gerous. 1t is a Digger TO the body. 1t
Stays children by TIE tisousands.
A DISEASE PRODUCER.
"Psrents ascribe it To The climate, and
is il que to thai not a bit. Dyspepsia is
a far better name for this candy-eating
disease. It produces disease in ninety
niue cases u of a hundred. 1t makes
general debility. and wrecks the
whole system. rbis pracLce is more
prevalent among the poorer CLASSES than
among the ricn. fue poor mother knows
that her child can live more cheaDly OH
candy thar on more nourishing food. and
gives 1t the penny TO buy candy. Instead
Of the baker having the penny or two
cents, the CANDY man has it. These little
fellows are candy striker. and short
life is a proper name for them.
ASK your fathers aud mothers how
much candy they had. They will tell you
they had a penny only once in a while,
and then used TO buy a suck of molasses
candy, and you laugh &C the idea now.
but it's so. Pm Two or three years older
than you and know what Pm talking
about.
You can't make men and women out
of candy. You might get second rate
angels, but. l repeat. and l honestly be-
lieve 1t. you can't tiud real men aud
women who have been fed on candy.
',It il time for us to swear eternal
enmity against candy. as we have against
the rum and the tobacco" The crusade
will not be long III starting, and then
will fight it to Il bitter end, and will. l
believe. reaD much good.