The herald., 1894-04-22

and solidarity, assisted by public credit,
and which, by dint of toll, perseverance
and trugality, and the many other vir-
tues which frugality has in It's trail,
these toilers ought TO get enabled TO pay
Tor, as well as for the requisite imple'
ments and necessaries of life, from the
surplus OF their labor of the products
OF the land, thus enabling them to found
Tor themselves and their children a new
and permanent home, to love that home
again, their country and its institutions.
But to attain this object--to rouse
generous, con6ding spirit in the upper
classes, and above all in public opinion
the unemployed muRt develop those
higher qualities to entitle them to re-
spect and hearty support, must adopt in
the hrst line that voluntary frugality
we practice and advocate, and which,
reduced to its original meaning, to the
root OF the word, means living on fruit,
renouacing all that lie superfluoCs, and
especially meat, drink and smoking.
The majority of our Socialists would
no doubt consider this advanced kind
OF temperance, at first at least, as an
impossiDiity, an indignity, perhaps, to
which, If at all, one could only submit
under the hlahest pressure OF want and
despair.
10 disprove. to dispel these erroneous
notions is the true mission of us vege-
tArlans, to show by our mode of livi g,
which some of us have already kept up
for decades and even for generations
with the most etrikingly satisfactory re-
suits, and which we have the amplest
material to further support by facts, sta
tlstics, science and the highest teach
ings o. ethics.
This blessed land, this paradise Re-
found" OF Southern California, with its
glorious climate and vegetation, is es-
pecially suited for vegetarian colonies,
and has already led to many inquiries
from vegetarians in the east and In Eu-
rope who are desirous to join us.
There are already quite a number of
vegetarian colonies EXISTING in this
country, in Mexico, in South America
in Europe and in Africa, to which part
of the world Europeans have of late
years been by preference attracted on
account of climate and cheaper sail.
True. healthy vegetarianism renders
more peaceful and cheerful, inwardly
and outwardly, and ought thus more
and more impress our fellow men with
the great advantages and blessings il
bestows upon it's followers. Vegetarians
to fulfill their high mission in modern
society, while practicing and advocating
a wholesome, an imperative return to
nature and to a more natural mode OF
living. ought yet-ought still more be
inspired by the love OF true progress
and culture by the material and hygien-
ic, the mental and spiritual advance
ment of the universal brotherhood OF
humanity, whose solidarity We recog
nize and wish to aid, realizing in our
lifetime.
II by our system of frugality the ex-
istence of all human beings can be rem
dered more bearable, more really useful
and to the purpose, sweeter and more
harmonious; if our example, our views
and aspirations could only attract and
stir up aociety-on the one side to re-
duoe it's wants, on the other its excess
i've luxury and selfshness; if thus land
and shelter, food and productive work
could be secured for the now idle,
homeless and helpless, if millions of in
dustrious hands could thus be set in
motion to pillow and SOW, to build and
organize, to prepare all over the lands
joyful harvests for a near fGture, how,
with the wizards rod, the present dark
picture would give place to one OF peace
and beauty, of plenty and blessing!