The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-04
REFOBMER'S EEA DINING.
DON'T OVERLOOK DEADLY EVIL
New work Laid out For the Prohibition
Phiianthropists-An Opium and To-
baceo Crusade Needed-High
Authority quoted,

DALLAS, Tex, June L.. Editor HER
Abba careful estimate has been
made recently, investigating the dam
age sustained sh ould prohibition cap
ture this county, and whether good re-
suits sufficient could be guaranteed
from such course as TO offset the fatal
blow. We first SEQ that a capital OF
$4,000 Is invested here In 81 places OF
business, and that Cos persons are main
tanned and supported and 20 tenement
houses occupied. And the question IL,
can we afford TO close up there 81 places
OF business, take away the support oil
these COS persons, OF which 305 are
women and children, families OF our
business men; lock up capital OF $64O,-
0O0 invested, and paste "for rent upon
300 of our tenement housesY We can see
and realize ut q glance the result OF
such movement. ave would be Ikea
ship on an unknown sea-" without a sail
or rudder, SIN storm, drifting where
soever the angry waves direct,
and al last engulfed" by our adversaries
sent against us in the day OF our weak
ness and helplessness. Prohibition IL
good thing "if you mako II national,"
and even then IL must be preceded by
a work in the reformation of those who
king than alcohol, and that Is tobacco
and opium. A distinguished physician
declared he considered the use OF tobac'
| co "as causing seventy different styles
OF disease;" and he says of all causes OF
cancer in the mouth that have come I'M
der my observation "almost in every
case IL has been ascribed 10 tobacco"
And DIR. Talmage in recent sermon
saws: 40 All reformers Will
tell you that the use of tobacco creates
an unnatural thirst, and 1t is tho 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 il an affinity between the two pro-
ducts. There are retormers here TO.
day who will testify to you il is impos'
sible for q 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 first touched tobacco and then
they surrendered to intoxicants, and
that the path to the drunkard's grave l.
strewn thick with tobacco leaves. The
eminent physician who was the super
| intendent OF the insane asylum at North
Hampton, Massachusetts, says "fully
one-haif 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 6Oo,O
victims OF opiumin the United
States to. day and of which Tai
mage says: ave know not why some
families do not get on. There Is some
thing mysterious about them. The OPT
UNI habit is so steslthy. 1t is so deceit.
ful you can cure hundred men OF
strong drink when you can't cure one
opium eater. l have knelt down in
this very church by those who were ele-
giant in apparel and elegant in appear.
auce and from the depths of their soul
and from the Cepths OF my soul we
cried out for God rescue, Some
cow it came not God doesn't
seem to hear a prayer offered for an OPT
UNI eater" Thus we have statement
from an eminent divine who bases his
arguments on facts and figures and lays
down tobacco as the corner stone to the
mansion of the drunkard and even If II
is not true tobacco and OPT
um are certainly greater evils
than liquor and when these two evils
are removed then we are ready for pro-
hibition. Tobacco and opium are the
roots to this evil tree and Its branches
are intemperance. Be sure you cut not
roots. Then you will gather to your
ranks thousands of reformers and,
though the roads along which you
travel NAV be rough and beset with
trying difficulties, yet they will keep
| their pace in the ranks and stay with
you until the journeys end.