News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-16
STAND FROM UNDER.


Our correspondent in the following
letter on tobacco, strikes right and
left in a merciless manner:
FelloaU Citizens Of LdmoiRe County :,
The petitions presented to the Sen
ate, asking for the passage of a bill
requiring instruction in our common
schools, in relation to Alcohol and its
effects upon the system, is most eX-
eellent. but why not add tobacco also.
Now, | am not a member of the w
e. T. u, but l would like to organ
ize an "Anti-Tobacco Society" in
every town and village. An Act
relating to penalty for selling cider, l
could not vote for, as my liver is in
such a state that | require acids, and
cider is recommended by my physi-
clans, but l do not know of a well
read NJ. ID. who recommends tobacco
as having a good effect upon the sys-
tenn, on the contrary, it is the cause
OF more attacks Of paralysis than any
thing else. An Act" relating to
public health is fine thing. To inves-
tigate and abate nuisances and take
measures for protection, all sounds
well, but who will say that tobacco is
| not public nuisance? An "Act" max
ing prohioitory law against selling,
or giving away opium or morphine, Is
well, yet why not add tobacco. What
is there worse for Supplying the minds
and clOgging the brain? But physi-
clans have said tobacco chewers have
very small, if any signs, of brains, but
| know young men who were bright,
smart boys before they used the sac
cursed stuff" | know christians that
were active workers in the church be-
fore their sensibilities were blunted by
the blue smoke of tobacco. An Act"
adding habitual drunkenness to the
causes for divorce is all right, but
why not add tobacco 1t should be
just cause for woman to leave huS-
band who is an inveterate chewer and
smoker, in accordance with ''Acts"
relating to public health, nuisances,
etc. What family can enjoy good
health with spiLtOons full of the Odor
Of half masticated guilds, or in clothes
saturated with tobacco smoke! An
cattle, etc., from straying upon an
others premises what worse can cat
tie do than these tobacco chewers,
who straying into lecture rooms be-
smear the floors and dresses Of the
ladies? A wild horse would not
brighten me, more than man coming
towards me with tobacco jdice perco-
lating from the corners Of his mouth.
Oh, do not talk of glass of cider
destroying life and happiness, while
all this tobacco business Is going Oh,
doing its deadly work silently but
none the less surely; it is killing no
less than alcohol, and the influence is
hereditary, visiting the children unto
The third and fourth generation. |
know church members who roll the
Oaueful weed as Il sweet mOrSel under
their tongue how can they talk OF
the pure i'll heart, with a mouth SO
filthy? Are they practcing self de-
NAL! is it not detilmg, what proceeds
from a mo Ithful of tobacco! Lastly,
there is in contemplation, an "act'
making it the duty of physicians to
lodge with town clerks certificates OF
disease and cause OF death, within fiji
teen days alter inCermenO. | would
offer resolution, that physicians duty
be to proclaim fifteen Years before in
terment, The cause Of the heart dis
ease and helplessness of poor suffer
ers from the effects of tobacco. Now
with all the petitions and acts, let us
act wisely, instruct the youth of our
land against the ways ofintemperauce
and raise other questions beside
Chinese and Indian; questions that
more seriously concern us as neigh
bors and friends, lovers of happy
homes, clean hands and mouths, tru-
gality, neatness and order, and with
the outside polish, not forgetting the
clear head, the clean mouth, and clean
tobacco boxes. Some 90 SO far as TO
proclaim against raising hops, because
Tue Germans and Jews will drink
beer. How much land in the United
States is used for the growth of to-
bacco? Will some OF your readers
tell me? More, anon.
RFFOPNFu