Heavy Taxation becomes a necessity, and the govern- ment sets the taxes adrift to meet the expenses attending the detection of adulteration in food supplies, and battling with sick animals, injurious pests of various kinds, crime war and other ills caused by unnatural conditions. Would that we might let fall the curtain here, but before us loom up the immense wealth represented all over the world in magnificent buildings that furnish homes for the invalid and demented public; the drunkard, and the criminal. The cost of supporting the former runs into millions and of the latter it is stated that ** In New York alone there is a * well organized, well -equipped, and well officered ' army of 80,000 criminals. The prisons of the United States hold over 300,000 convicts. To support them costs more than the country's annual yield of gold and silver." Can we longer afford to cultivate this profitless production. The Cost of War. It has been stated that " about every century from eighteen to twenty millions of men are mutually butchered in Europe and a similar number in Asia, while among non-civilized nations the human sacrifice is about 5,000,000 a century. Aside from this holocaust of human lives, the expense of sustaining war- fare, supporting armies and navies, made ready for war, reach an astounding sum. All these necessities, largely made such because of indulgence in the acknowledged luxuries of life, — which we have come to regard as actually essential to our comfortable existence, are respcgn- sible for the problem of where the money goes. WHERE THE MONEY GOES. 241 Economy. It is not in any sense economy to maintain the causes that constantly supply fuel that induces and increases the necessity for continual warfare upon unnatu- ral conditions. To grow, import and manufacture all these articles that deteriorate the race more or less, to support institutions that never should obtain standing room in a civilized nation, should cause us to blush with shame that they are necessary for the moral, physical and national safety of an enlightened people. Instead of this however, we point with pride to the huge and expen- sive mausoleums that often occupy and overlook the most magnificent in nature's varied landscape and in which are buried millions of living victims. A nation that can afford indulgence in such luxuries should never mention " hard times," until they consider "where the money goes." Hard times would be impos- sible to a temperate nation. We shall never reach that desirable condition until we consider cause and effect in a broader light than has yet been generally recognized by the most wise an.d learned philanthropists. 242 THE FAT OF THE LAND. CHAPTER XXII. IN A NUTSHELL This book is designed to meet not only the needs of radical dietetic reformers and vegetarians, but also to assist those who are thinking upon this question with special reference to the slaughter of animals for food. The author has endeavored to make plain the practical way; trusting the reasons given may prove of sufficient value to create thought and discussion, if not immediate decision by those who stand waiting at the door, undecided whether ''to kill or not to kill" for food, is forbidden in the humane code of acts with regard to the rights of defenseless animals.

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Heavy Taxation becomes a necessity, and the government sets the taxes adrift to meet the expenses attending the detection of adulteration in food supplies, and battling with sick animals, injurious pests of various kinds, crime war and other ills caused by unnatural conditions. Would that we might let fall the curtain here, but before us loom up the immense wealth represented all over the world in magnificent buildings that furnish homes for the invalid and demented public; the drunkard, and the criminal. The cost of supporting the former runs into millions and of the latter it is stated that ** In New York alone there is a * well organized, well -equipped, and well officered ' army of 80,000 criminals. The prisons of the United States hold over 300,000 convicts. To support them costs more than the country's annual yield of gold and silver." Can we longer afford to cultivate this profitless production. The Cost of War. It has been stated that " about every century from eighteen to twenty millions of men are mutually butchered in Europe and a similar number in Asia, while among non-civilized nations the human sacrifice is about 5,000,000 a century. Aside from this holocaust of human lives, the expense of sustaining warfare, supporting armies and navies, made ready for war, reach an astounding sum. All these necessities, largely made such because of indulgence in the acknowledged luxuries of life, — which we have come to regard as actually essential to our comfortable existence, are responsible for the problem of where the money goes. Economy. It is not in any sense economy to maintain the causes that constantly supply fuel that induces and increases the necessity for continual warfare upon unnatural conditions. To grow, import and manufacture all these articles that deteriorate the race more or less, to support institutions that never should obtain standing room in a civilized nation, should cause us to blush with shame that they are necessary for the moral, physical and national safety of an enlightened people. Instead of this however, we point with pride to the huge and expensive mausoleums that often occupy and overlook the most magnificent in nature's varied landscape and in which are buried millions of living victims. A nation that can afford indulgence in such luxuries should never mention " hard times," until they consider "where the money goes." Hard times would be impossible to a temperate nation. We shall never reach that desirable condition until we consider cause and effect in a broader light than has yet been generally recognized by the most wise an.d learned philanthropists. CHAPTER XXII. IN A NUTSHELL This book is designed to meet not only the needs of radical dietetic reformers and vegetarians, but also to assist those who are thinking upon this question with special reference to the slaughter of animals for food. The author has endeavored to make plain the practical way; trusting the reasons given may prove of sufficient value to create thought and discussion, if not immediate decision by those who stand waiting at the door, undecided whether ''to kill or not to kill" for food, is forbidden in the humane code of acts with regard to the rights of defenseless animals.

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