The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-01-08

do manual labor. These suffer least
from fashionable poisons, because the
deadening influence of noxious agents
upon the nervous system is largely
counteracted by physical toll, which
strengthens the entire system and con-
duces to health; and thus it is that
active poisons are thought to kill
slowly" and laboring people live long,
apparently uninjured, and practice
poisonous indulgences. In all this
great and glorious class of humanity,
however, may be found the fruits of
tobacco's use, in the form of cancer
on the lips and tongue, dyspepsia, con-
stipation and hemorrhoids. But let
us consider the other class, wherein
are included ladies and gentlemen of
wealth, of fashion, and of leisure,
those who live idle as well as those de-
voted to literary pursuits and purely
sedentary occupations. Physicians,
ministers, and lawyers are of this
class, and in all these we find paralysis
very prevalent, and that diversified
and interminable train of nervous de-
rangements whose name is legion.
With constitutions enfeebled by ply
sical inactivity and sensibilities height
ened by social and literary culture,
consider for a moment the effect upon
these highly nervous natures. To all
of this priceless portion of humanity
the use of tobacco is unmixed evil and
rapidly ruinous.
Again, it is affirmed by eminent au-
thority that tobacco is the most pro-
life, if not, indeed, the only source of
delirium tremens.
First, the ancients were entirely un-
acquainted with these terrible terrors
of the inebriate, and the records be-
yond the discovery Of tobacco (1560)
reveal no case of mania a potu.
Second, the normal action of tobac-
co is the production of tremens, and
the most frightful forms of delirium
tremens are daily produced by the use
of tobacco alone.
Third, it is rarely possible to find an
inebriate who does not use also tobac-
co, and careful inquiry will confirm
the statement that, with 80 per cent.
of such cases, the tobacco habit was
first formed. It's influence deranged
the nerve centers, an initial tremens
was entailed upon the nervous system,
which suggested to the morbid taste
of the sufferer the soothing, seoa5ive
action of alcohol, and thus the allied
agents forge for each other and fasten
more firmly the chains of the servilest
slavery.
| have employed professional sci
ence to loosen the pillars of tObaccos
position, and with authority and with
argument have carefully criticised its
action and influence on the functions
and forces of organic life. Earnestly
in this direction | invoke the sober
Judgment of scientific medicine, and
when you shall have ordered tobacco
to abdicate, then only will it fall from
popular use and favor, and with that
will end the ruin it has wrought.
In view of these truths, scientific
and self-evident, in the name of sci
ence that classfies all knowledge, in
the name Of science that seeks the es-
sential nature Of things, in the name
of science that truthfully interprets
the teachings of nature, issue the edict |
of your eminent authority and drive |
from popular use and favor this poi
sonous plague, and when this is secur-
ed heavenly halo Of light, an ineffa-
BILE effulgence, will open up over the |
poisonous wastes Of the world broad |
and bright and beautiful pathway of |
crimson and of gold, wherein gar
landed angels will gladly gather, pro
peace on earth and good |
will toward men," and from highest |
heaven all over the earth shall you