The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-01-15

vas as sanitary ana conuueiNo W
,oundness of physical fiber as the .
EN- commandments are to moral
health. In physical or mental en-
lurance they would not yield to
heir flesh eating companions.
They know that the eating OF flesh
IS no moro necessary to the physl. I
cal economy than the drinking OF
Wherefore, then, should Chris
tain civilization tolerate the bloody
horrors of our slaughter-pens?
Why, in order to gratify an unnat-
ural appetite, should Christian men
and women make it necessary to so
brutalize large class of their fel-
low-men, and so accustom them to
the takirg of life and the sight OF
blood gushing from palpitating
bodies, that the portion Of the city
in which these men live is hotbed
of crime and murder, and a mans
life seems to be held not more
sacred than that Of an OK? A civil
ization that so dehumanizes a por-
ton of its people, according to an
|immutabls law, is the victim OF its
own sin.
If we would realize the extent OF
our slavery to the shambles, we
have only to glance over the menus
of our leading hotels and restaur-
ants. Often more than dozen dif-'
ferent kinds of animals are slaugh-
tered to make Christians dinner.
1t is a perpetual disgrace to our
guttonous civilization. A Greek
philosopher or a Roman senator
would look upon them in disgust.
There would be something ludl-
|crous to an old Greek like Plate in
hearing Christian minister preach
,Ieloquently upon the great theme OF
I"Peace on Earth" within ten miles
,Iof the Chicago stock yards. After
THAT he would not be surprised to
! see the peripatetic menagerie upon
1.-the heads of our women, and the
grinning heads Of animals lorna
menting" their throats. Some
$ how, we suspect that the old Greek
q would prefer the religion OF Pytha
goras, who was such tender-heart
a ed old heathen that he would g
4 around and buy up the old an'
Q crippled animals condemned u
Il slaughter, in order to let them live
e out their allotted years under hi
q merciful care.
: 1t requires a great stretch OF con
: science to ask men and women to
e|believe in a God of love and mercy
bland vet claim that this God has st
iIcreated man in His own image that
tin order to sustain life he must mak'
d nlof himself "of half that lives thu
: butcher and the tomb" Intelli
gent men and women instantly SCI
e that both propositions cannot b
, true. They have far more respec
e. for the first proposition when the.
: learn that anatomy says the secont
Ills not true; ard when they lear
( that many of the best medical au
I tthorities Of England, France ant
s Germany not only claim that flesh
-leating is fruitful source o
disease, but claim to have cured al
Imost all diseases, even consumption
a and enilepsy. bv abstention from
/, what they claim to be the slov
e poison Of flesh diet. Wher
a science and the experience OF who'll
y|races of men thus prove the SECOND
o to be untrue, there i
r some logical reason for us to ask in
Intelligent belief in the first PROPOSE
g|tion; but when we fill ourselves VI
: with portion Of the remains OF
> dead hog or COW for breakfast, the
|, listen to a sermon made out OF sim
oIilar remains, and go home only t
j. gorge ourselves upon turkey cadav
,f| ers, il is little wonder the christian
of heather nations has com
3 Ito mean to them mainly the exten
h sion OF our commerce in canne'
ymeats and "fire water" Is it an
l. wonder that a great thinker OF ou
,tage has exclaimed: "The trans
sr migration OF souls is no fable.
,e would it were, but men and wome
mi are only half human. Every an
,r NAL in the barnyard, the field an
at the forest, Of the earth, OF the watel
,elthat are under the earth, has col
rs trived to get a footing and leave tt
IL print Of its features and form
i'll some one or other Of those uprigh
re heaven-facing speakers. All, brotl
1der, stop the ebb Of thy soul--ebbir
into the forms into who's
ngIhabits thou hast now for man,
nd many years slid"
w. If vital statistics be true, Il
,et flesh -eating Anglo-Saxons are n
ng destined to be the ultimate domino
ht ing race, much as it hurts our pri
,reto believe it. The slaughter hou
Il