Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-03-06
He's Down on Tobacen.

Now boys, do you doubt the effects of
 tobacco, its demoralIzinco effects especial.
 ly? Go with tc to the club house. that
 gildet threshold to a life oi degoneracy and degradation, where the card-pack takes the place Of the ca,cchism, and the average topics of conversation arc the latest horse race, wsiking match, prize fight, billiard or sparring exhibition; you will fad there every individual to be an animated miniature volcano, breathing forth fire, smoke and tt intervals belching out dsiiiing lava stream. Take the next step, down to the wine and sample room, where the fashionable rowdy and professional gambler rob night ot its peaceful quIet, and under It's cover fills the pages of life's record book with words Of blasphemy and deeds of lnfamy; to the gambling table where oue is robbed of bis money, and bis moral life crucitied, and you will find that tobacco holds high carnival. Go to the grog shop where manhood is so swiftly and 90 often wrecked and di- vine image Obiiterated, and it k tobacco smoke over head sud tobacco iulce un- der foot. Go iutO every haunt of sin on earth. on tle face Ot this beautiful lovely earth, and to- baccO, and strong driEk and ourses are the nefarIogs and dlabOlic trinity, the great triple enemy Ct the human family. | Question every yOuUg man yOu meet, ] with cigar OF aud of tobacco in bis l mouth. and he will ue found tO have strayed away from the protecting Care l ut loving, dotiDg. mothers influence. | and shaIOw of church and Sunday l school.
 IL has becn discovered in oar soien- tlic schools, and especially noted ID | Paris, that In the Polyteuchuic schools, | that the non tobacco us.us boys are de- cidely superior in general scholarship | and mental yisor, to these who smoke, or otherwise Use the weed. The Ger man government appreCI tting the IDjur- Iuus effects of tobacco on the physical constitution, has made smoking on the streets by boys, UnGcs the Uge of Is, an oiiense punishable by fine and imprison- ment.
 Smoking and chewing tobacco in @ process of distIlling or extracting an oil which Is so deadly @ poison, that two drops placed on the tongue of a eat will produce death lu just four minutes; will take the life of the largest dog, and by punctuTe on the nose Oi a squirrel with pin dipped iu it, a.ll Cauzc death ID SIX minutes.
 The sudden deaths cf Gen. D.kin ot Brooklyn, and ot Gr. HaiiOck, of New York city, Was due Co paralysis of tAe heart, caused by tEc Use oi tobacco.
 They were lUyetesate U es Of tobacco. and l assure y0u tia, hundreds and thousands are dsliy H-iur Cu she verge of the same probability.
 Dear boys. IT y.u would -I, ie-deD oE callOus your moral scgsa; fl you would not acquire habit which i5 generally acquired ID b1ylCgl, Cr which the tcsti- mOBy Of uuuUmb-9,I t.ogrluls Cf otherwise good men is, that they vouii 'so gladly FhaEe j. D- I- ga P ra-li;' @ habit which is go sat. E-J EL;sI .a comes cU irCa'c-. -i.r lr.iu Ur tLs pccke: as .g. I.- DIa.tltll-i 4 habit that Haa g.t s-a s..-i- ylrtl. that can plead iu aXt--r.slu :a- i's c1is- teace. Then iiv ig 'l. purifying -.m"s- phere Of a La.- u.'hr-'- rLvlr-. i.d iU- iluence wh8 is wholly U.-a.i D In Ed- yisIng you, .H. -.. .a svr- v-.-tlsl to guard yoG ---:--t .yI- We Gl E ga Co admi, that the 1ea. standard O; ;1 ra!s and habits ur. il thr pai- of the churches. IL is Impossible to expect { pure water froIn muddy fountains Keep out of bad con!a.-, and you v.,. likely avoid the nausC1Gs baMt rf ,-ar using IL will TuIn your h'..'h.
 PAvL GE-GgEy, ll D.