Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-03

mouths in this particular. q But I pass on say that the tobacco.C curse is tearfully
 apTeRdiug.sf .3sqconsumpEion is ten-fold
 greater than it wasu twOng4- five years ago.
 Then itw was not ashion4ble for children and boys to- smoke end chew. From thO high places of power the curse sweeps hot ly down through all rauks of society, like
 scathefu sirocco. The very air resks yellow virus wherever it's victims wond
 their wsy. Our beautiful valley of tho
 Connecticut which the Father scoopod
 out with His avn bSnehcent hand, and gave us in lieu of lost Eden, waves With
 the stygian growthg and the best acres of our goodlF heritage are devoted to crop
 but slightly preigured by that which
 sprang from the dragonsS teeth. What high-minde sdweller in this delightful val
 ley can fail to respond to the following in.
 dignapt apostrephe of the 1ase Rev. John
 Pierpont:
 waen lovely vsiisy sn pUn a@ 4SosSsaa 4So@sa % sS0
 The plant that killed Virginia, killing thea;
 To To see s, that Plaas, the asadliest that grows,
 See the green, sluggish reptile it receives,
 Climb it's rank stalk and lie along its leaves:
 Round it's pink spikes the lOSthsomO eorawlsrs 6Qu1rM,
 And man beceming--a tobacco o-sCo,rs rsTup The public revenue from tobscco. dur.
 ing the last fiscal year, was s$00y06O, ,OOO. How enormous then must have been the
 consumption and total cost to the copntryI We, this morning, listened to an admi- frable paper on intemperance in n0tif col.
 legesJ It saddened me t0Iheargof the dis. ! tsipation of young men blessed with such I0.n o~kVn D..k
 me, as I have recently been told, y4iiat the use Of tobacco isR there aln1oSt ShiversaI. and the college, among it's Other1 iuses, iS turned into a genteel, smoke house, where not to contribute to the fuIigin0tS cloud. is to be singular and nnfashiohableg and. on the whole, not very {" good fallow," it did not surprise me to, hear that drinking and debauchery disgrace those institution. A large proportion of the pitiable young dupes who bow down to the tobacco idol
 which is appropriately enshrined in front of the tobacco:shops, in the imhge of . Fstalwart Indian, with bundle of cigars in one hand, and Q murderous tomahawk in the other-thus as if to entice victims with the former, to be immolated by the. latter a large proportion, fear, will Ind them. selves, ere long, prostrate and dying in the purlieus of the temple of q rBacOhus, should they persist in, their infatuati0n. To be sure, they may never reach that nat Etral destihationC for German physicians testify that of the deaths in their. country of the young men under twenty-five. more than half are caused by tobacco, supple. mented by gin and beer. od'ns3di
 E Inotice in that awful and affecting piO- ture issued awhile since by, the; national society called, The Black Tztgsvs R0iI. road, i" it is mentioned in the margin. fnr the information of travellers, thAtT" sta- ges from TObacco-land connect with all tho trains." This is noteworthy and signiA- cant; but it would be5 more important to the public to be told, that neaElysAIl the trains sEGrt from Tobacco land and of the six hundred thousand passengers on board, rushing with lightning speed to Delirium. town and Demon land, ni1iety-nine but of every hundred embarked primarily from Tobaccoland., rad5 .saia4 .ai oousIoo
 Now to imagine that temperance can win with a foe 80 willy and seductive" constant. ly recruiting in and around her very Scamp, Eis to dreams It is to indulge in Oengratu. lations while drifting down stream as we have done for some years. It is to watch at the hole of the cockatrice's den, only to kill the old one, while ths young ones are matching below, soon to rush out upon us. It is to ,doze over volcanic, fires. It is to have our labor for our pains. It is to build upon a quicksand. It is to ca6Ethe liquor. demons out of the front door, 1conly to be succeeded pyr a younger legion at the back door. It is to make merry over imaginary victories, while the enemy, perpetually re- piuforeed, is advancing upon Dourdc citadel and eyep laundering at our gates,xsTt is to carefully fence out the old foxes from the vineyard, and leave holes for the young ones to steal in and eat the vineS.l a 1t is to rollt huge round stoneiup the high hill only to }recoilr upon us and, rush. down again. It is to re-enact the Stnpendous folly Inflicted on the murderons siSt6fhood. of attempting to fill with cwateFs ao vessel full of holes, and these tdbaeeos ard rum holes-= the very leakiest of all holes,
 The husbandman in reclaiming his wet; inarshy lands, aims to cut of thes fedun- dant water at Lthe springs on lthesb borders.
 The gardener, seeing the leaves of g favor.
 ite tree or plant willing without any obvi. ous cause, explores the root, to find and destroy the stealthy worma The physician seeks to find the source of the diseese, and
 directs the curative to that specific point.
 The mariner, seeing the hold of his vessel
 Rlledlwithi water, is mainly anxiousit tO find and stop, the leak. The AremRnlTHsh to Gu0 GA4AC0 6u0 1AAA9 rkAAps lg&DUUA00
 hose right at the incipient flames. All this Is duittcommon sensicalC you will cd. l init, and accordant with the maxim which teaches us to resist the beginnings of evil. After vainly trying for half q century to qnench the flames of alcohol and Its cd.
 mixtures, which are yet sweepingcpxer the country like prairie fire, is it not high time to try to prevent, if possible, the con- Pstant rekindling of the conAagration? To stop the fearful leak ,inI the temperance ship? To send the remedy to the point of
 the inoipient diseasep To cut of the
 stream of woe at the fountain? To ferret
 out the worm at the root? EToidNsist the beginnings of evil by forestalling the for. nation of, the unsuitable and. terrible ap-
 petite for strong drinks. in all ways possi-
 ble,S and especially. by bearing q s9laithful.
 honest and consistent testimony against the use of tobacco, its, dreadful exCitant and provocative, mindful of the good old
 maxim, that afi ounce. of prevention is
 worth more than apound of cnFeSs
 eo In aecordance with these ,sentiments, l ask, leave, to submit the following pfeamble and resolution, as an amendment of the resolution before us. twill be- observed
 that this resolution is merely adeelarative and advisory without ,pledging the sOcie- WHEREAS. n m in the Judgment of chemists. k physicians and physiolOgists, tobacco is