Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1888 — Ireland's Enemy. [ARTICLE]

Ireland's Enemy.

Experiments by O. Kellner having shown that linseed oil as food for horses has 2.5 times the nutritive value of starch, Mr. W. Mattieu Williams mentions similar experiments in which po-tato-fed laborers proved less efficient than workmen who had eaten largely of fat bacon. He states that his observations throughout Ireland during four summers have convinced him that the chief curse of that country is “neither the Saxon, nor the priest, nor the league, nor the Tory, nor the Radical, but is the potato; and the craving for a sluggish distension of the stomach which is generated by potato feeding, becomes a vice that in many cases is comparable to the alcohol crave. * * ’ Even pigs degenerate if fed up'in the potato exclusively, and human beings similarly fed suffer from a combination of habitual distension and lack of nutrition that deprives them of both physical and moral energy. The Irishman transplanted to America and properly fed, liecomes quite an altered being so far as industry and general energy are concerned.” — Arkansaw Traveler.