Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-04-10
Temperance.
TIFF TOBACCO WEED.


Surely, man cannot be proud of |
his companionship in this relation.
The tobacco worm and the filthy |
goat of South America are all, out |
of the millions of animal species, |
that can be induced to touch it !
How is tobacco to be classified?
81 group. says Hitchcock (for they do agree
In being poisous, as tits plain to see)
group togethhr and reject the sum
or Alcohol, Tobacco, Opium"
That tobacco is rank poison has
been demonstrated and cannot be
denied. When taken, into the hui
man system,
ut harms the brain, is nauseous to the taste,
Injuries the funds aud does the fluids waste
The relation of tobacco to alcohol
is worthy of a passing notice. 1t
acts it's part in the great and fearful
demolishing process of intemperance.
| do not say that every smoker or
chewer of the vile weed is addicted
to the habit of drinking, but it is true
that every topper in the land uses to-
bacco, and there can be no doubt
that the use of one narcotic poison
induces the use of the other.
propose to speak of the use of
tobabco as a loathsome and disgust
Ing habit. Necessitates the 'spit-
ting-box'' in the lady's parlor and the
smokeing-car on every railway train.
What a confession of indecorum is
the smoking-car. 1t speaks in I'M
mistakable language to every thought
full mind. "You may wear broad
cloth and a beaver hat; you may
rank among the fashionable and
wealthy; may hold high position in
church or State, and be distinguished
for your learning, but you can't ride
with the ladies and gentlemen on the
train, while you are smoking tobacco.
You must retire to a second-rate car
among the loafers and card-players,
if you insist upon smoking while in
their company. The smoking car is
kind of pest-house where all the in
fected must be retired, to prevent the
spread of the contagion. 1t is per-
petual reminder of the filthy and dis
gushing habit of which / speak; of
the abject slaves to perverted APP
petite, who gather there to indulge
in fumigation and of their relations
to better society in which they may
mingle after they have been purified.
Smoking the pipe or cigar has very
appropriately been defined as burning
incense to Pluto, the god of the infer
nal regions, and in the somking-car
is the alter upon which their sacrifice
. is made.
And there should be smoking
sidewalk, or kind of Hoosac Tun-
neP' on every street in Boston, for
the retirement of the smokers who
infest the who city and fill the air
with the offensive scent of tobacco.
ats horrid fume is like the stygan smoke
Emitted from hole in Hades broke"
Yet no lady nor gentleman can
pass on any sidewalk in city, any
time of day, without have these
fumes pulled in her or his face. 1t
is an outrage that ought not to be
r tolerated. What right has any young
man OF old man, well dressed or in
t rags, to puff tobacco smoke in my
face? | don't like it. 1t is an in
: fringement upon my right, an offense
against common decency, and an In
tolerable nuisance. What would this
street-smoker say to me if | should
/ insist upon burning birthstone in his
: face every time he came on to the
+ street? Would he endure it. OF
e would he suggest tie me that the citi
: zens of Boston shave rights thai
; white men are bound to respect,
= and ask me to retire to some les:
! public place to commit the nuisance
: Still, has he any more right to burr
It tobacco in my face, than | have burr
!. ia birthstone in his? | ask it in al
d sincerity. and really think that if the
;, rules of common civilization are no
d sufficient to prevent this nuisance OIL
}, the streets, law should be passed
$ prohibiting public smoking of tobac
II co. If any man is offended by m,
e plain English on this subject, let hin
e defend his own side of the question
! if he can.
IS Chewing tobacco is less offensive
!. but not less injurious or disgusting
Let us see how this works.
: 1.-Two ounces chewed day. tits said. produce
III A half pint of vile tobacco juice;
Is Which, if continued for five and twenty years,
= From sober caluiatIon it appears.
al With this foul stuff would near five hogsheads fill,
" Besides old guilds. larger parcel st II.
w Nor am with this calulatiou don e;
20 He in that time has chewed a half ton,
II wagon load of that which would, of course,
!, Sicken dog even kill horse.
10 How much better to spend tn
O. million of dollars, yearly spent 70
De tobacco, for bread and clothing t