Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-11-17

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The beneficent physical, moral. 90
.ial. financial and aesthetic advantages
pf vegetable food are insisted upon by
the members Of the vegetarian congress
at Chicago, and each advantage is Landed
as salutary in the highest degree. Pro-
lessor Mayor, a well known classical
scholar of St. Johns college, Cambridge,
AYERS that vegetarians suffer but little
from thirst. They are ''set free from
cravings which the world without hears
"a the voice of instinct, strong, imperi-
ous. memorable" He drinks q glass or
lemonade at 7:15 p. m. from habit ratn-
er than to Stake thirst" and he some
times takes q swig Of milk at railway
station restaurants "to encourage the
dairy at the expense of the brewery"
Thus, so far as he is concerned, thirst Is
abolished. He needs no drink OF any
kind.
The English soldiers and civil servants
in the tropic stretches of Asia and Afri-
ca have only to follow Professor Mayors
example. Thus the value of vegetarian
ism to military science becomes evident
In fact. not merely the operations OF the
commissary department, but the whole
art of war wos!d be wonderfully changed
and simplifed if Mr.. Thomas Atkins
would forswear meat. Professor Mayor
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 rapture 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-
ry sensations from dishes Of the simplest
sort, and turnip picked up in the fur
row may 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 q
radish now and then 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, il he can get the
worlds hunger throttled, to add enor-
mously 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
ity of men would go on perpetual strike
if the necessity of eating and drinking
were removed so that there would be a
loss of wealth after all. But what's the
/ use of being wealthy if you can become
: healthy and virtuous by eating vegeta-
} bles only.
: The profound moral which vegetarian
ism holds for prohibitionists is obvious.
The consumption of flesh" says vege-
tartan resolution. "creates a thirst for
. intoxicating liquors and should be aban-
doned by all who desire to promote tenn
perance reform" This goes to the root
. of the matter. Prohibiting grapes and
corn and hops and apples wouldn't be
: enough. There will always be some in
E toxicant as long as men continue to be
subject to the demands of thirst. Here's
a the real gold cure, the elixir of temper
ance, the pill of prohibition. Prohibition
and garden sass" one and inseparable,
now and forever! Nor is intemperance
Z the only evil which will not and cannot
r grow in the garden. DR.. Paul Foster of
/, Berlin is confident that the adoption of
;, vegetarian principles will lend the war
T between the poor and the rich, solve the
e social problem, complete the work of re-
ligion and in all ways ameliorate the I'M
s happy condition of the human race"
t Reflect upon these things, erring car
t nlvores, and think that every time you
e order beefsteak at the butchers, You
are ordering unhappiness. the deteriora-
g ton of the human race and the debase-
= ment of society. Go to the grocer's and
: buy peck of potatoes and some cucum-
bers and plug of tobacco, and carry
peace and potency of social regeneration
home to your cook. Who can tell that
+ the future of Europe may not be peace
e ful II Professor Foster can induce the
e German emperor to live upon string
d beans and asparagus tips for q few
f months2 Will anybody pretend that
: Ezzelino might not have been a man as
l. mild as milk if he had been restricted to
u a diet OF spaghetti in his youth? Does
o anybody suppose that Jeffreys lived
y upon olives2
o In addition to the moral, physical and
economic advantages of vegetable diet
b there Is the esthetical advantage. Mrs.
k Bruce. the English woman whose paner
on 1.-The Esthetics of vegetarianism"
was read at the congress, believes that
- meat eating is opposed to idealism
while vegetarianism has much to offer
. That connects it with the highest and
v best in life, The highest aspect of veg.
= etarianism is estheticism. 1t is full Of
. vital truth and beauty" We now see
why Mr. Oscar Wilde ate huckleberrieo
q when he was in the United States. ITs;nr
; the term @stheticism in its larger sense
:, we see why Emerson ate beans and
. why, judged by results, SO MANY of b;s
discipies seem to have lived on cabbagea
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