Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — He Stands by the Pig. [ARTICLE]

He Stands by the Pig.

The.oditor of the Germantown Telegraph has these words to say for the porkers: *■. The question is again raised as to whether pork is wholesome or otherwise, some people declaiming against it warmly as an article of food, etc., though they offer no solid reasons for their opinion or belief. Now, so far as our information and experience go, we can regard such views as without the shadow of a foundation. Porkeaters, Who comprise nine-tenths of the population of the civilized world, will scout at such nonsense. For all persons of active habits pork is just as wholesome as anything else, and far more sustaining. It is true that if too much of it is eaten at a time —in other words, if people will make “hogs” of themselves—they will have to suffer for it, as for an over-mess of almost any other food. To discard pork would be to discard one of the main items going into our s “vital statistics.” What would become of the army and navy, of our merchant marine, of, in a word, the great mass of our population, if pork were to be thrown overboard? The idea is supremely absured—the abolition of this flesh as a prime article of food would be just cause for a sumptuary revolution. No, go. on, ye pork eaters, among whom we number ourselves, with a craving stomach; boil or broil your hams, pickle your sides, cabbage and kraut your chines, souse your pigs’ feet, and enjoy yourselves upon swine’s meat to your hearts’ and pockets’ content. Fling not dirt at the grave, patient, thankful grunter, who anticipates his fate with a pleasure which he cannot express in words, but which he squeals to meet with the best possible grace. He may not laugh, it is true, but he grows fat without laughing, so much more to his own credit and to the profit of his friends, who liberally bestow upon him the wherewith to fare sumptuously every day. We shall stand by the pig. He is the patron of nran. If he is generously treated it is because he is expected to return four-fold. If he is lazy it is because we give him nothing to do but to eat, grunt, and sleep, having in view not the good of the animal a tithe as much as the hope of an affluent reciprocation for all our kindness. Pork unwholesome! Nobody except a lean, cadaverous,, sedentary biped, who is obliged to live, probably on account of early dissipation, on Graham bread and weak tea, would be guilty of such a slander.