Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-04

plying them meat. and our meat, in due
season; and that the angels went SEM
ing or digging for us for bait, as we
take worms or minnows; and should
run a hook in your belly,
spit on you and cast you
into the air to catch still bigger speel-
mems of homos, how would you like
that? Would that hook feel good In
your flesh? But 1t would hurt no more
than you hurt a squirming worm. or
suppose YOU were used as a minnow,
and the hook was showed into you UNI
der the belt, so that when the angel
flung you out you would lie horizontal
and wriggle, and tempt some great
sucker or mullet. of human being that
should gobble you and be caught. You'd
look like thunder hanging there. nude,
kicking, paving and yelling. | grant,
but the murder of you would be no
meaner, no more criminal than your
murder of worms and "minnies' for
bait Apply the golden rule to that and
see where you come out.
And again, the Prayer said, Lead US
not into temptation" and we are bound
not to lead others into temptation, not
even a stupid fish by dangling cruel
lie before It's face. never could under
stand how ministers of the gospel could
be sports: men like Isaac Walton and
Henry Van Dyke, In our day. 1t is ut
terly selfish and indefensible pleasure"
In plain violation of the Golden Rule
and of the Prayer. There is no moral
defense for this pastme and sport. 1t
is cruel and it is wicked and no tender.
true conscience can engage In 1t. Your
sport" is a man or woman whose SEN
sibilities have been blunted and their
consciences jostled out of kilter
And there is no occupation that so
promotes lying! l doubt If there ever
was a fisherman who could tell the
exact truth about his catch He lies
in pounds and in inches and in feet.
He will even buy fish on an unlucky
day and swear he caught them. And
the fish that gets away from MIN was
the biggest boy in the School In the
fishing season churches and Sunday
schools might as we'll close-they can't
stem the torrent of lying!
And it so ridiculous to see a man
Weighing from 100 to 100 pounds. or
more. Jerking out eighth, quarter and
half pound finny creatures and bfag-
ging about it,! And dressing them to
eat, BY the time the head is off and
the internal administration is out, ana
the fms and hukes and scales or hide
are removed 1t is mere tidbit. The
fish net. Is Almost infinitesimal Can
niba,s saw the same thing of mission
arv. male or female, dressed. l do
not mean by dressed clothed. but the
man, net, when all the inedible parts
are eliminated. such as the head, feet'
bones. and internal economy that far
mers at butchering time used to cali
.liver. lights, pluck" etc II the cam
nibal does not utilize the alirnentary
canal, and make soup of the shank and
thigh bones, and pickle the feet and
make souse out Of the ears, ETC.. there
is not much of the victim man left
! And there isn't enough of half pound
! bass or trout to fool with bass Is
built like Lombardos banana crate
The mouth Is the top hoop. A bass Is
all mouth, like populist orator or
walking delegate Eviscerate 1t, choI
off head, tail, fins, 1t becomes van
ished memory, an iridescent dream,
| delusion, for 1t has gone into innoc. des