The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-04-14

| SHdll, lOT WHICH Gu6ro Is no ACCOUNT
ing, may have owed their origin to to-
bacco. Two or three well-known
cases, however, may be given, as illus
trating the peril to which the guilty
and the innocent alike are continually
exposed.
It was from the smoking of a
plumber that the Harpers' printing
establishment took fire, consuming
five blocks, at a loss of about a mill
ion of dollars, and throwing nearly
two thousand people out of work.
By spark dropped from a pipe a
dreadful fire was kindled in Williams
burg, destroying three vessels and six
buildings, with the lives Of three per-
sons.
Says an insurance agent: "One-
third or more Of all the fires in my
circuit have originated from matches
and pipes. Fires in England and
America are being kindled, with alarm
ing frequency by smokers casting
about their frebrands or half-burnt
Matches
Much might be said under this f.
nancial head as to the culture Of this
weed, but space allows only a few
words.
'The tobacco plant" writes one, sis
great exhauster. Whether raised
North or South, on the banks of the
Danube or the Connecticut, it is all
the same. 1t is a hugeglutton, which,
consuming all about it, like Homer's
glutton of old, cries: More! Give me
morer"
Says another: ga gum issues from
green tobacco that covers everything
it comes in contact with. We met
recently troop of men, fresh from
the tobacco-feld who might pass for
Hottentots. They looked as if they
always burrowed in the ground, and
in hands and face, as well as dress,
were the color of woodchucks.
Writes DR.. Humphrey: "What shall
we say to raising tobacco narcotic
plant, which no brute will eat, which
affords no nutriment, which every
stomach loathes till cruelty drugged
into loathsome submission, which stu
pefes the brain, skaters the nerves,
destroys the coats Of the stomach, ere
ates an Unsuitable thirst for stimu-
lants and prepares the system for fatal
diseases?''
Prof. Brewer, in summing up the
case, says: "The sole advantage is
that an individual may grow rich from
raising it. But what one man gains
is obtained at the cost of his son and
his sons son."
"It is culture" declares Jefferson,
productive Of infinite wretchedness. :"
Writes Gen. John H. Cooke, Of Vir-
ginia: Tobacco exhausts the land
beyond all other crops. AS proof of
this, every homestead, from the Allan
tic border to the head of tide-water, is
a mournful monument. 1t has been
the besom of destruction which has
swept over this once fertile region. y
In confirmation Of this, says trav-
eler: ''The old tobacco-lands of Ma
ryland and Virginia are an eye-sore
odious 'barrens, looking as though
blasted by some genius Of evil"
Most eloquently writes Prof. Bas-
com: ''Take the land, the sunshine
the rain which God gives you, and sci
them all at work to grow tobacco
throw this, as your product, into the
worlds market; buy with it bread
clothing, and shelter, books for your
selves, instruction for your children
consideration in the community, anC
perchance the Gospel of grace; pay
ever and everywhere, for the good yol
get, tobacco, only tobacco-tobacco
that nourishes no man, clothes NJ
} man, instructs no man, purifies M
, man, blesses no man; tobacco, that be
: gets inordinate and loathsome appe
J tite and disease and degradation, tha
impoverishes and debases thousand
and adds intellectually to the burden O
evil the world bears; but call not thi
) exchange honest trade, or this gnaw
ing at the root of social well-bein!
getting an honest livelihood. Thin
OF Gods justice, the honesty he re
= quires, and cover not your sin with
, lie. Turn not his earth and air, givel
3 to minister to the sustenance and jo,
e of man, into a narcotic, deadening lit
S and poisoning its current, and the
r traffic with this for your own good.
t And what shall be said of cultivat
). ing this exhauster of the soil, thi
: foulest, most destructive of poisons i
our own beautiful Connecticut Valley
q the land of the Pilgrims? A crue
e matricide, which Christian hands
n alas! join in perpetrating!
A STROKE of lightning general
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