Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1906 — THE VEGETARIAN’S INNING. [ARTICLE]

THE VEGETARIAN’S INNING.

Ciiioluiiati Eugiiirer: Not many men and women have opportunities to witness the operations of the great slaughter house, and perhaps those who have restrained their curiosity are the happiest. It is not a sweet smelling and appetizing spectacle, even when the establishments are conducted with the best possible approximation to cleanliness. A humape family hesitates to take the life of a favorite dog, even when it becomes blind, deaf and a helpless and a miserable burden to itself. But we tolerate the deliberate killing of prime cattle in the pink of life and physical perfection, for the purpose of eating them. We look complacently on the awful hammer which knocks the animal on the head, and, with napkins tucked vulgarly under our chins, gloat and gormandize in tenderloin and “booze.” The vegetarian may be a crank, and opposed to the means of sustenance supposed to be provided by a pow, er transcending human purposes, but he bas splendid defense when he sees the cattle killed by the wholesale for his stomach’s sake. There are people too sensitive to witness the wringing of a chicken’s neck. They would “drop dead” if they could behold the direful executioner wield the hammer in a Chicago slaughter house. Allowence must be made forthem. They have as good a right to be “finicky” as others have to revel in blood, horns and hair. It is altogether a matter of how a person has been raised. The vegetarian has a right to live and promote his idea, and the Administration haa been of remarkable assistance to him of late. Mr. Roosevelt is entitled to the Vegetarian nomination for President in 1908. 10 to 25 per cent off on clothing and shoes, June 4 to July 4. Chicago Bargain Store.