The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-18
WHEREIN The MEAT EATER
EXGELS The VEGETARIAN

Vegetarianism is Il growing fad. Even
in the small towns the intellectual and
>pirituelle have their tea and wafer clubs.
where the barbarisms of meat eaters are
denounced. and slaughtering of animals
for food is voted brutal. The rapid IN
crease of vegetarians has led to investiga-
ton of their claims by medical scientists.
/ the views of DR.. Norburne b. jenkins.
Chicago medical writer. are correct.
vegetarians and their doctrines will here
after be amusing rather than taken seri-
ously
1T cannot be denied. said Dr. Jenkins
that many persons and races of people
can live. thrive and grow fat without
animal food. There are Andeans who eat
nothing but bananas, and are able TO
make themselves Incompatible beasts OF
burden. The porter of Smyrna is veri-
table cart, carries heavy burden all day
and eats nothing but dates and rice
Everybody knows that the Chinese live
largely on grain and vegetable food. many
of them never tasting meat. Many of
these vegetarians are the healthieSt and
strongest of people.
Such facts as these are conclusive
evidence to many. They consequently
shun animal food and hope to be strong
and healthy without meat.
Animals like lions. tigers and leopards
must have the freshest of animal food
meat that has been killed but few hours
indeed live rabbits. goats and sheep are
sometimes fed to delicate and sickly ami
mails in ZOOS with the most beneficial re-
suits.
The races of men and animals differ
more in their internal construction than
in outward appearance The visceral an
atomy of some races of people is some
what like the goat. the rabbit and the
hog. while in others it is more like that
of the dog. the cat and animals of prey.
The small. the digestive intestine is many
feet longer and of much larger surface
and capacity in vegetable-eating nations
than in meat-eaters. and this ludicrous
and invidious fact speaks volumes. While
teen feet of small intestine the vegetarian
nations have from twenty TO twenty-seven
feet. and some individuals of them have
been found 10 have an enormous length
even as much as fifty or fifty-ive fee,.
This fact is testified TO by KONG Gruber
and other great medical authorities.
''Of all the world the workingman #
this country has to think as he works
He is in no sense beast of burden ie
cannot live on grain. One-third of the
blood in his entire body is needed to keep
his brain active. His labor is fiercly fast
and competitive. All this and more :
in his work that is not in Others. He
needs rapid nerye-repairing food. strong
red meats. He cannot do such work ex-
cept with these. 4 man might be a quiet.
intellectual sage on vegetables. or can be
a beast of burden and live on
such. if he has the right kind
Of viscera: but he cannot do fierce.
competitive work. or 5e
Of it.
One needs certain racial. geographi- /
ral and anatomical disposition to be 4 /
good vegetarian. OF all peoples we are
the least so qualified. The vegetarian |
races have on an average FIVE TO ten /
feet more of intestines than meat-eate.S
and 50 can like and toll on grain and. vege
tables. but they cannot build war ships /
bridges. type~esiing machines. skyserap- /
rs locomotives. ere
--Ir Is safe 10 say that this century's 4
use Of meat has had nearly I
IS much TO do with speeding and pro-
crossing civilization as either coal or iron. i
The American cannot do the skilled and 1
speedy work required OF him and meet /
he worlds competition. as he now does. /
lnless be has an abundance OF meat.
The recent experiments of living on
/ few cents a day arr most unfortunate /
md misleading. for some of our people 4
nay be tempted TO economic in this dan
yerous way The workingman OF this 1
Is 80 constituted that he cannot 1
10 this safely. and il is foolish and hax-
ardous for him TO attempt such thing. /
Every man who works should eat AT 4
east one pound of fresh. rare beef daily, /
The man who eats meat and works 70 earn /
il. too. makes the best citizen and work |
nan and the bravest soldier