The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-01-15
Tobacco, Intcmperance, Tenn
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To the Editors Of the Literary Echo -
l begin to think that both yourself and
your readers, may possibly have inqui ed
in relation to this tobacco discussion.
4" When will the end lie :" Upon the
supposition that this inquiry may hav"
been made, | am happy to be able to say
to all concerned, this is the beginn ny of
the end. What remains is only the pre-
sentation of reasons why all should abandon
the use of the poisonous weed at once,
and forever. And ask, why should the
young men, and the b,ys of this place-G
can hardly write boys," it SENS so alb
surd, or at least it would seem, if facts did
not sustain the supposii,n that bays should
have any thing to do with the filthy stuff J
i say why should the young mcn and
the boys of the place, and others also
abandon the use of tobacco at once and
forever
LIST. Because the habit of using it is both
and lnconvenent, and filthy habit. No
person can deny this, and hence nothing
need be said in conf nation Of it. 1t is
universally admitted that such is the fact.
I'd. The use of tobacco involves need
less expenditure of money. Those who
use it are none the better for it, and what
an cxpenditure-hows great The sum
otal paid annually for tobacco, in this
country, does not fall far short, in all
probability. Of twenty millions of dollars.
| have seen a statement, that ten millions
are paid annually in the L. S. for cigars.
1t Is estimated that the city of New York
pays $4,000 dollars per day for cigars
and only $500 dollars a day for bread :;
and have heard ola Church being charged
with paying more for tobacco than they
did for missions, and they could not DENY
it. And now, Messrs. Editors, if the
same thing was charged upon many Of
the church-goiug individuals in this place,
yea, and upon some of the professed dis.
ciples Of him who spent his public life as
missionary, aud gave himself up to the
death of the cross for the salvation of
others, greatly fear that they would be
compelled to acknowledge that the charge
was just-they would not b, able TO DENY
it. And what can such persons Offer to
their consciences as an apology for this /:
How can they justify themselves; But
Sd. The use of tobacco involves an ex-
penditure of money which is not needless
merely, but which is worse than needless.
This has b; en- shown in rev ious numbers.
where its deleterious influence upon the
human system-u. on tn. physical and in
tellectual man was presented. No person
can AXE poison into his system, in such
quantities as the tobacco chewcr or smoker
takes it, and not be injured by it. There
may not be an acknoS Sledgment of this on
the part of him who uses it, neither does
the incbriate acknowledge that his eleven
and four o'clock dram Injuries him, but
others know that it does. The person
who uses tobacco experiences such uneasy
and painful sensations when deprived of
his quantum of the narcotic, as no other
man does. They are confined to him, and
sometimes he regards them as an evil.
They are an evil created by the use of
the narcotic, and created unnecessarily.
The money which he has expended in the
purchase of tobacco, as far as bis own wcl-
iare is concerned, has been worse than
wasted. And what shall We say in regard
10 it, when we consider the influence Of
his example upon othersi But, Messrs.
[ cannot reach the end, as l hoped, in this
article so I suspend the discussion here,
promising to reach the fnis as soon as
possible. Yours truly,
J FMENp OF YouTH.