to the fact that they are starving, and if nourishing food is not supplied they will drink, as they know of no other way to satisfy the internal craving for something which in their weakness they fail to understand. For this reason the saloon exists and will continue to exist until we cease providing victims to patronize it. It is time for the temperance world to pause and thoroughly examine this side of the question. Unholy as is the curse of king alcohol, the curse of slaughtered creatures for food is equally disastrous to the race, because it kindles and feeds the flame that demands the distillery, the saloon and the drink. It creates men and women who as instinctively turn their footsteps toward the saloon as do others toward the grocery and the drug store for tea, coffee, opium, patent alcoholic nostrums and scores of other stimulants. They have the same right to indulge in their favorite potations, as have we to gratify our desires in a less harmful manner, so far as the immediate effects are observed. It is for us, as teachers of a higher life, if we have become weary of the fight, disheartened because of slow returns, to turn about and face the fact that at our tables the foundation is laid that determines more than any one thing else the character and stamina of humanhy. No matter how well your son or daughter, or mine, are " brought up at home," so long as we place before them dead flesh, diseased and impure at best, and stimulating condiments and drinks they will crave other unnatural I — ^s and drinks and do their share in a score of ways ard making generations of inebriates. This question a deep and far reaching significance and when once vinced of this we would never encourage, or lend our ALCOHOLICS IN FOOD. 223 presence at a " barbecue," delightedly watching the process of roasting an ox that a few hours before had just the same right to life as ourselves. The rights of animals forbids their sacrifice for human food. Who will inaugurate the era of bloodless feasts and banquets innocent of cruelty ? Who should do this, unless it be the vast body of temperance and humane workers that are making collossal efforts to save the race ? Who will establish a precedent and provide a public dinner, or entertainment of any kind, a social or church supper, that shall be of an acceptable character, unattended by a procession of the dead ? Who will set the example of no stimulating tea and coffee and provide instead, rich juices of fruits and nuts that will satisfy any reasonable mind and gratify the most fastidious epicure ? We often read of immense conventions of the world's noblest workers in every line of beneficent labor, and the press comments detailing the number of pounds of beef, ham, fowl, cheese, tea, coffee and butter, the gallons of milk and cream, the loaves of white bread and cake, with pies and puddings required to feed such assemblies. Aod while we contemplate the warfare being carried on internally in this incongruous mass, to separate the various elements required for the needs of the body, we no longer wonder why bickerings, warfare of words and unkind feelings are engendered upon the public platform. Such f eastings are not the best for producing the highest spiritual inspiration for speakers or listeners. Do you say; " What has this to do with the temperance question ? We must follow the customs of the world ! " Customs are of less value than human beings, and it has this to do with temperance, that when we thus feed our 224 THE FAT OF THE LAND. own bodies we are encouraging intemperance by doing our part towards making the soil from which the moderate drinker — over 15,000,000 of them in the United States — and the drunkard — over 1,000,000 of them, statistics tell us — are grown.

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to the fact that they are starving, and if nourishing food is not supplied they will drink, as they know of no other way to satisfy the internal craving for something which in their weakness they fail to understand. For this reason the saloon exists and will continue to exist until we cease providing victims to patronize it. It is time for the temperance world to pause and thoroughly examine this side of the question. Unholy as is the curse of king alcohol, the curse of slaughtered creatures for food is equally disastrous to the race, because it kindles and feeds the flame that demands the distillery, the saloon and the drink. It creates men and women who as instinctively turn their footsteps toward the saloon as do others toward the grocery and the drug store for tea, coffee, opium, patent alcoholic nostrums and scores of other stimulants. They have the same right to indulge in their favorite potations, as have we to gratify our desires in a less harmful manner, so far as the immediate effects are observed. It is for us, as teachers of a higher life, if we have become weary of the fight, disheartened because of slow returns, to turn about and face the fact that at our tables the foundation is laid that determines more than any one thing else the character and stamina of humanity. No matter how well your son or daughter, or mine, are " brought up at home," so long as we place before them dead flesh, diseased and impure at best, and stimulating condiments and drinks they will crave other unnatural stimulants and drinks and do their share in a score of ways and making generations of inebriates. This question has a deep and far reaching significance and when once convinced of this we would never encourage, or lend our ALCOHOLICS IN FOOD. 223 presence at a " barbecue," delightedly watching the process of roasting an ox that a few hours before had just the same right to life as ourselves. The rights of animals forbids their sacrifice for human food. Who will inaugurate the era of bloodless feasts and banquets innocent of cruelty ? Who should do this, unless it be the vast body of temperance and humane workers that are making colossal efforts to save the race ? Who will establish a precedent and provide a public dinner, or entertainment of any kind, a social or church supper, that shall be of an acceptable character, unattended by a procession of the dead ? Who will set the example of no stimulating tea and coffee and provide instead, rich juices of fruits and nuts that will satisfy any reasonable mind and gratify the most fastidious epicure ? We often read of immense conventions of the world's noblest workers in every line of beneficent labor, and the press comments detailing the number of pounds of beef, ham, fowl, cheese, tea, coffee and butter, the gallons of milk and cream, the loaves of white bread and cake, with pies and puddings required to feed such assemblies. And while we contemplate the warfare being carried on internally in this incongruous mass, to separate the various elements required for the needs of the body, we no longer wonder why bickerings, warfare of words and unkind feelings are engendered upon the public platform. Such feasting are not the best for producing the highest spiritual inspiration for speakers or listeners. Do you say; " What has this to do with the temperance question ? We must follow the customs of the world ! " Customs are of less value than human beings, and it has this to do with temperance, that when we thus feed our own bodies we are encouraging intemperance by doing our part towards making the soil from which the moderate drinker — over 15,000,000 of them in the United States — and the drunkard — over 1,000,000 of them, statistics tell us — are grown.

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