The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-01-15
SLAVES OF THE SHAMELESS.
Chicago Record.

of our Buddhist brother Dharmapala
like far off echo over the s
long centuries of that sublime hymn
of creation: And God said, Be-
hold | have given you every herb {
bearing seed, which is upon the face
of all the earth, and every tree in
the which is the fruit Of tree
Welding seed; to you it shall be for
meat. And to every beast OF the
earth and to every fowl in the air,
and to everything that creepeth up
on the earth, wherein there is life,
have given every green herb tor
meat. And it was so. And God
saw everything that He made, and
behold, it was very good. And the
evening and the morning were the
sixth day"
Isaiah saw again the Edenic vision
in "the new heavens and the new
EARTH" when "the wolf and the
lamb shall feed together, and the
lion shall eat straw like the bullock
and dust shall be the serpents meat.
They shall not hurt or destroy in all
NV holy mountain, saith the Lord. =
Since those days when here and
there among the olive groves OF
Palestine there were men who lived
SO simply and purely, innocent OF
|, the taste of blood or the fever OF
wine, that they sometimes thought
again Gods thought concerning
this mystery we call creation and
life, mankind and the animals over
whom they were given dominion,
: and whom they have so long mis-
ruled, have become so degenerate
that both forest and city is red with
y blood, and the mouth Of the Chris
, tian is as CORY as the throat OF the
lion. Only the lion is not so saw
E age as the Christian. He kills only
a to satisfy his hunger. The Chris
n tan breeds animals by the million
!. for the sole purpose of slaughter
and the stencil of his stock yards
t smells to heaven, and the pitifu
J. means of animals packed in stock
/, trains, dying OF thirst and hunger
must blot out the Christians prayer
to the merciful God, without whom
not sparrow falleth.
q The slaughter pens OF Amerlc
E. and Europe are the plague spots o
y a new barbarism. 1t is surprising
ct that in our city, which prides itsel
n in being known as the city OF tn
e most extensive slaughter houses il
the world, we should have had re
# Gently the spectacle OF men and wo
d men so far beneath even the savag'
,e as to find delight in shooting t.
,r pieces a dead or dying fox, dragged
about to satisfy their wanton thirs
for blood. The meanest savage il
= our western forests does not de
1t scend so low.
le The slaughter house is no NOR
a essential to the health and strength
m of the Christian than that OF tn
ar Arab or Hindoo. The Arab con
y quered Asia, Africa and Spain ol
ID barley. More than two-thirds o
5 the human race never eat flesh, bu
le subsist solely on the grain and fruit
r. of the earth. The porters at Con
D stantinople, nourished on their sim
lg pie diet of black bread and fruit
n and who are said to be able to lift
t. burden of 800 pounds and carry
al up a steep ascent with more eas
r. than pork eating American or
OF beef-eating Englishman could carr,
) 100 pounds, are living witnesses t
re the fact that hesh-eating is neithe
ye essential nor conducive to healt
I'd and strength. 1t is the fesh-eatin
p nations that support armies OF ply
Sc sicians. 1t is well that we find ply
st sicians like DIR. b. w. Richardson
-, the eminent English specialist, VIII
he saws that for the welfare Of human
d, Itv he hopes that "before the end
Of this century there will be no slaugf
he ter house on the planet" /" The n
he alization Of DR.. Richardson's wis
ice seems to be very far off. Ever
he church festival is marked by an il
'ar creasing large slaughter OF innocel
ow animals, evidently created for oth'
is purposes than. butchery. TT
lr. Christian minister who, like job
is Wesley, has not tasted flesh f
no fifty years, is SO rarely found tn
off the visit Of the minister and Il
he slaughter Of yellow-legged chickel
to are considered necessary concom
nst tants. Our Buddhist brother W
Of be glad to learn that there e
,ns Christian ministers in this land, al
ms even in Chicago, who at their ov
res tables never ask Gods blessil
lad upon the devouring Of the de-
carcasses Of their innocent fello'
creatures, but who have the swe
consciousness that no living thi
az has had to suffer that they mig
eat. There are said to be me