The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-07-12

Chrlstlah soclety,-ann, while L am
sowing broadcast the seed Of death l am
treated as a very companionable fellow.
Yet it has not escaped your majesty that
| have led more into the ragged, raving
ranks of intemperauce than any other.
| smile upon men, and soothe them when
they are unquiet, and persuade them
that l am both food and medicine. Be
it understood by this august council that
no sooner does man break fellowship
with me, than his thirst for intoxicating
drink diminishcs. OF rcgaining a Wash.
ingtonian | have little hopes, if he for
sahes my service. 1t is like cutting off
the resource of fountain. Our cause
is safe as long as the friends of temper.
ance will let me alone. The use Of my
manufactures not only creates thirst,
which tempts t. the use Of iutoxicatiug
liquor, but it weakens the whole man,
and creates a demand for some stimulat.
ing tonic to restore him to wonted
strength. I yield the palm to no power
in the cause. That will be sad day for
our cause which sees tobacco used siIssrr!'yy
as a medicine. l say the more of my
power Of operating, that my compeers
may duly estimate the importance Of my
labor, aud concentrate their wisdom and
energy to sustain me Keep men ignor-
ant of my nature, and angels may lecture
on temperance, with the winning grace
of heaven, and l will laugh at their
efforts. 1t is impossible that they can
succeed. May it please your Satanic
Majesty and my worthy compeers, our
cause is safe as long as we can keep TEN
pcrance men and temperance lecturers
silent in regard to mo and the great
mass of them have tco little self.denial
to forsake me. Indeed, I am often pleas
ed to herr Sons of Temperance plead my
cause even better than can myself. l
claim that am twin devil with Alcohol,
and his equal. These things being so,
are sufficient to convince every Power
here assembled that Smoking, Chewing
and Shutting are like pillars Of adsmant
to our noble cause
"Allow me, most noble peers, to state
my amount of influence. My dominion
is wide. No Pope, no Prince, no Poten-
tate, wields such sceptre! l boast of
subjects from sea to sea, and from the
river to the ends CT the earth. | count
fifty millions in China, and proportionate
numbers in Turkey, Persia, Germany,
and other Kingdoms of Europe. Two
hundred millions and more acknowledge
nv sway l am the idol god Of mighty
rivers: the Ganges, Danube, Mississippi
and Connecticut are all mine. l exhaust
the fat valleys on their borders, and do
my best to make them tributary to your
majesty's glorious cause Here tie cav-
ern Of He'll shook 10Th applause Ven
hiss siir imrajesfy's Service against the lated
race of man lam comparatively young;
for less than three centuries ago began
my work among European and eastern ma
tions, and now | am we'll intrenched in
the human race, emasculating and demor-
alizing nations, and laying them at my
feet; and soon l shall accomplish my
loyal desi gns the globe over.
81 annually raise four billion pounds
Of my poisonous plant; l manufacture
four hundred billion cigars; | have near
ly two millions of hands in the sunny
South employed more or less in its eul-
tivation. Negroes do my work there,
but employ white folks-deacons and
others-to do it on the banks of the Con-
necticut. have more than two thou
sand manufactures Of cigars, meer
schaums, snuff, honey dew, pig gtail, re-
gro head, and the like, in America. In
Europe do business on grander scale.
There | have more magnificent estab-
! lishments, aud keep REDUNDANT supplies
for my legions of votaries. The human
family expend one thousand millions of
| dollars and more in my service every
year. This sum would build two rail
roads around the EARTH costing twenty
thousand dollars per mile, or sixteen
railroads from the Atlantic to the Pacific !.
[Applause.]
II accomplish my work in clardes-
tine way-so much SO as to eludc the
! keenest observation | effect sudden
deaths | form cancers; eat out
tongues | afflict with dyspepsia, palsy,
insanity, and with diseases by the score,
keeping my victims blind as the owl at
noon-day about my agency. | glory in
hood-winking doctors, cersymen lectur.
ers, and the whole posse of the Sons and
Daughters Of Temperance seal their
lips b,' inducing the belief that do nc
mischief. Noble peers, we devils have
no subjects who please us so well as those
who are unconscious OF our existence
My genius is to dece'vc.
81 have sometimes encountered
stroke of persecution, but it has amount
ed to nothing. Here and there re-
former has started up and assaulted me
but he has been lauyhed doun by M,
loval servants in Church and State -
Reformers are slow in assailing me, The
church furnishe! many eloquent clergy
men, who spend their days in assailine
insignificant heresies, or in praising some
dead Napoleon; but they are few ane
far between who battle me, living Ma
poleon. 'Adored as | am by saint, b.
savage, and by sage they think sucl
conflicts undesirable.
"Give me your aid, fellow peers, il
my loyal purposes--devils with devil
firm concord hold-and l will poison tn
race from pole to pole, blot out the imag
of God, change the style of man, an
) bring on a race so scraggy and deformed
SO emasculated and dwarfed, as to b
beneath the contempt Of devils.such as
address," Here Tobacco proudly too
his seat amidst the boisterous acclaim;
>;o,s of b;s follov demons