The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-02
REFORMER'S REASONING.
DON'T OVERLOOK DEADLY EVIL,
New Work laid Out For the Prohibition
Philanteropists-An Opium and To-
bacco Crusade Needed-High
Authority Quoted.

DALLAS, Tex, June 1.--Ediror HER
Abba careful estimste has been
made recently, investigating the dam
age sustained should prohibition cap
ture this county, and whether good re-
suits sufficient could be guaranteed
from such q course as to offset the fatal
blow. We first see that capital of
$4,000 is invested here in 81 places of
business, and that COS persons are main
tained and supported and 30 tenement
houses occupied. And the question is,
can we afford to close up these 81 places
OF business, take away the support OF
these Cos persons, of which 1856 are
women and children, families OF our
business men; lock up capital OF $780,
600 invested, and paste "fOr rent" upon
90 of our tenement houses? We can see
and realize at u glance the result OF
such o movement. ave would be like "a
ship on an unknown sea-" without sail
or rudder, tin q storm, drifting where
soever the angry waves direct,
and aJlast engulfed" by our adversaries
sent against us in the day of our we9E.
ness and helplessness. Prohibition is
good thing "if you make it national"
and sven then it must be preceded by
a work in the reformation of those who
are addicted to and slaves of greater
king than alcohol, and that is tobacco
ana opium, A distinguished physician
declared he considered the use of tobac.
co Gas causing seventy different styles
OF disease" ana ne says of all causes of
cancer In the mouth that have come I'M
der my observation "almost in every
case it has been ascribed to tobacco"
And DR.. Talmage in a recent sermon
says: "f All refOrmers will
tell you that the use Of tobacco creates
al unnatural thirst, and il is the CAUSE
OF DRUNKENNESS in America to-day
more than anything else. In all cases
where you find men taking strong
drink you find they use tobacco"
And that shows beyond controversy
there is On affinity between the two pro-
ducts. There are retormers here to.
day who will testify TO you ii is impos.
slble for man TO reform from taking
strong drink until he quits tobacco. In
many cases where men have reformed
from strong drink and have gone back
to their cups, they have testified that
they INST touched tobacco aud then
they surrendered to intOXicants, and
that the path to the drunkard's grave Is
strewn thick with tobacco leaves. The
eminent physician who was the super
lntendent OF the insane asylum at North
Hampton, Massachusetts, says fully
one half of the patients we get in our
asylum have lost their intellect through
the use of tobacco" And while these
facts about tobacco are appalling, there
still exists another greater and more
fatal habit than tobacco or liquor,
and that is opium. There are 100000
victims ol Opiumin the United
States h. Dv and of which TAI
mage says: I'VE know not why some
families do not get on. There is some
thing mysterious about them. The OPT
um habit is so stealthy. 1t is SO deceit
ful you can cure a hundred men OF
strong drink when you can't cure one
opium eater. ! have knelt down in
this very church by those who were ole
CANT IN apparel and elegant in appear
auce and from the depths of their soul
and from the depths OF my soul we
cried cut Cor God rescue. Some
cow IL came not God doesn't
seem to hear prayer offered for an OPT
um eater" Thus we have a statement
from an eminent divine who bases his
arguments on facts and figures and laws
down tobacco as tae corner stone to the
mansion Of the drunkard and even If it
IS not true tobacco and opi-
um are certainly greater evils
than liquor and when these two evils
=, '-'r' N't .iiVA No ~ iOAuN luI pro-
hlbitlOn. tobacco and opium are the
roots to this evil tree and it's branches
are intempeTance. Be sure you cut not
the branches until you have killed the
roots. Then you Will gather to your
ranks thousands of retormers and,
though the roads along which you
travel may be rough and beset with
trying difficulties, yet they will keep
their pace in the ranks and stay with
you until the journeys end.
REFoRAiER.