The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-07-13
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In real ilthiness chewing is .till worse.

| In real ilthiness chewing is still worse.
An eyce ssiye tobacco. chewer is essentially
an unclean being, and all the perfumes OF
the apothecary cannot eSeeten him. The
taint clinrs to him and is irremoveabie.-
No married man or young man intendingto to
marry, should ever chew tobacco Even the
rosy incense of love becomes injected by
the oder. As relates to the practice, the
old bachelor alone is the privileged being.
As he renders himself az useless as possi-
BILE bv cold blooded celibacy. it is OF no
consequence how disagreeable he makes
himself. that no one may regret his choice
and condition. Let him, therefore, instead
of "nature's balmiest Offering" the lip OF
beauty, press the nauseous morSel with his
lips and imbue himself with the essence
thereof to his full content.
AS snufi-taking is but little in vogue
among Us we viii only remark that an hab-
itual snuf-taker is anything but an object
OF attraction, and the practice is peculiar
ly unclean and dsagreeable As far as re-
CARDS the practice of Using tobacco, man
has but one enjoyment beyond the tobacco
,corn like him, that reptile chews tobacco
and snuffs its odor Added to these, hesnaokes
it. and there the difference. Nor the use OF
tobaccy an offensive and uncleanly practice
only. 1t Injuries the health OF those who
indulge in it and sometimes destroys it.
It produces many forms Of disease and ag-
grapates many others, and the range of its
mischief is extensive. The excessive use
of it often leads to incorporate drinking,
hence among habitual consumers Of
tobacco, there are found but few water
drinkers.
Incorporate drinking Of intoxicating bev-
erages is another form of intemperance
which has called into action the efforts
of all philanthropists to suppress the evil.
There are none who will deny its degra-
ding influence upon society; and the
crime and wretehedness caused by intem-
perate drinking, perrades all communities,
ana far surpasses that Of all other forms
of intemperance. An habituat drunhard
Is an object Of commseration to every
one of benevolent feeling-he is truly a
monomaniac and drunkenness is as much
a disease as any other form of monomanin
or insanity. The excessive drinker can
no more resist his propensity to drink
ardent spirits when within his reach, and
he be free from ey ternal restraint, than other
monomaniacs can dissolve the hallucina-
tions that beset them. Moral suasion
avails but little, and the only remedy is,
to place the poison out of his reach, and
| we sea-A lIis uut oy iegai en-
lactment Ask an inebriate, whose sensi-
fbiIity is not extinct, why he does not re-
fran from drinking when he daily feels its
ruinous effects on himself and family! and
he will reply often in tears. cannot refrain,
Thare witiia me a fiery craving, lohich ,rould
consume me, if did not ertinguish it Nth
fquor; should 90 mad, commit suicide, If
did not drink team scarcely be question:
ed that the extinruishment of the use of ar
dent spirits would ada full twenty 6ve per
cent to the average longevity Of the civil
lied world.
Only 1t the people be convinced Of the
magnitude of the evils resulting from inteni-
parate use o. ardent spirits, and the efficacy
of suitable laws for removing it, and they
viii demand suitable enactments from their
Legislators to Danish the traffic from among
us. Stringent enactments, faithfully execu-
ted. would do more towards removing the
evil in fre years than mere public opinion
{ uld in century. ]. c. F.