The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-02-08
HIS FRU|G|vEROUS TEETH
Hard Names INDUCED In By
Two Genial Gentlemen.
Will You Eat Fruit and Nuts or
Vegetabless
A Vegetarian and = Fruitarisn Enter
tain an Audience With the Explain
alton of Their Peculiar Beliefs.
A snappy Debate.

While the unemployed in the city
were endeavoring to arrive at some
definite and satisfactory conclusion last
night as to where they will eat this
morning, the vegetarians and fruitarians
were endeavoring to settle what they
should eat when they get it.
The Vegetarian society of Los Angeles,
although young, is spunky, and through
its secretary, @. F. Jones, entered the
field of argument at Illinois hall with
w. s. Manning of London, F. r. B. s.,
a Unitarian.
The hall was very well filed by a
curious crowd. who had evidently as
sembled to hear something drop. Some
thing did. The way polysyllabic words
words few around was enough to make
Mr.. Darwin turn in his grave.
The speakers were limited to Is min
utes in their opening remarks, and as
far as results went were not limited in
rebuttal and sur-rebuttal.
Mr.. Jones, the representative OF
vegetarianism, said he was there to ad-
vance the light of new gospel. He
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the tendency OF mankind to murder and
kill one another, to offer up sacrifices
and such pleasant characteristics, say
ing he believed the time had come
when things are ripe for q gentier
regime, when men will cease butchering
and become vegetarians.
1t might seem small thing for the
audience to see him advocating the
cause of lower creatures, but he thought
it right. The animals die, he commended
to fill our several stomachs are martyrs
who have not the power to say word
in their own defense.
He believed that men can subsist on
the products OF the soil and not by the
stealthy assassination of fish, flesh and
fowl.
On the ground of humanity, propriety,
possibility, practicability, expediency,
economy, and above all humanity, Mr..
Jones concluded, vegetarisnism should
be adopted by all.
When Mr.. Jones took his seat the
audience could scarcely tell what to do,
as they waited for Mr.. Manning to begin
to see wherein the two gentlemen dit
fered.
Mr.. Manning had quiet manner, but
he knew how to get in on language just
| as narQ as Mr. Jones.
He said that he did not exactly see
where the controversy came in, and at
this the audience applauded.
But he said he supposed he would
find out later. So far as Mr.. Jones had
gone he cordially agreed with him, but
he wanted everybody to enter paradise
at once and not wait for Mr.. Jones. He
honestly believed that vegetarianism is
not the correct method of food diet, but
that fruit and nuts will supply all that
man, and woman, too, needle.
Bread, he continued, is the staff OF
death and not of life, and he believed
this century would mark the emancipa-
ton of mankind from bread.
He drew a terrifying picture OF the
trouble that come from eating the starch
foods. Only per cent of it is digested
in the mouth with saliva, none OF it in
the stomach, and only when it reaches
the intestinea is it transformed into
blood, at an enormous waste of nervous
force. This was bad, he thought. The
best food is that which assimilates
easiest and with the least expenditure
of nerve force. Such food was not that
of the vegetarian or of the carnivorous
man, but of the Unitarian. Starch
foods are not natural foods. All science
had shown man to be fruigivorous an
imal. And the gentleman from London
commended that that being the case the
sooner he assumes his prerogatives as
such the better for him.
He did not believe, however, that his
fruit system could be adopted all at
once, and men should eat sparingly of
flesh foods. while arriving at the fruit
and nuts stage Of existence. Still he
he
with it's starch foods, would check the
march toward death, which is all around
us.
Mr.. Manning's remarks about the way
we are simply counting death by eating
buckwheat cakes and sausages, sent the
cold shivers down the back of more than
one in the audience. 1t was positively
painful to think of it, and he kept right
on harping about the terrible ignorance
of mankind on the subject OF diet that
leads to death.
In replying to Mr.. Manning, his OPP
ponent, Mr.. Jones returned to the
attack with renewed vigor. He fret got
off on side issue, in which he claimed
that Mr.. Manning represented cold,
clsmmv science, while he was glad to
cay he espoused the cause OF humanity.
Then Mr.. Jones referred to banquet
where he saw Mr.. Manning eating q
piece of orange, nut, and some honey,
and looking as if he enjoyed it. In re-
ierring to the nut, Mr.. Jones said he
had DO doubt Mr.. Manning cracked it in
his "iruigiverous teeth"
In contrast to this he painted q
picture where he sat on one side OF q
table, his wife on the other and the
children between, and partook OF the
vegetables of the earth, including cab
bages.
This flight OF fancy was very fine and
was applRuded. and Mr.. Manning looked
sorry, but didn't say anything.
Alter going over the ground again and
claiming that fruitsrisnism would be
fine thing but is impracticable, Mr..
Jones sat down.
In reply Mr.. Manning did not see how
the matter could be compromised. The
point was that there ia either a right
food or a wrong food and he did not see
how the right could come out of veget-
arisnism, with It's fatal breadstuffs and
starch foods which are leading the hu-
man race to destruction.