Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-22
Tobacco Habit
yuIis d. LELAND IN tho Golden Ruie.

cry State and Territory IN the un-
ion, save Colorado, Wyoming, Mon
aud Utah. to support it. 1t
.exhausts, a IS no other harvest does,
100000 acres Of land, and in New
York alone co mmands 10000 per-
sons.
The product of tobacco in the
United States is greater than any
country in the world. 1t is safe to
say.that the United States furnishes
one halt Of the tobacco that enters
into general commerce. According
to an estimate made some years ago
the annual product was two billion
pounds. This is a sum no n can;
but place this amount out in sight
and look at it, it is a rod two inches
in diameter, reaching around the
world thirty times.
According to to a later estimate,
the annual cost Of tobacco is 100000
600. What is this sum? 1t would
build a railroad, bonded $4,000 a
mile, around the world; it would
buy all the bread stulfs manufacture
ed in the country in a year. 1t
would pay for all the meat
and WOODEN goods manufactured in
the country in ayear. 1t is six times
all that is spent annually for public
instruction. 1t is millions more
than was paid to oil the wage re-
cievers in the country in 1880. 1t is
enough to build and equip 10000
miles Of railroad, and give to every
idle man in the country, employ
ment for every working day in the
year, and wages enough to support
his family. 1t is enough to give ev-
cry third head in a family in the
| country q homestead of one hum
dred acres, pail for and free 'frcm
debt; it is enough to build equip 3,
600 colleges every year; i. is enough
to build $500 homes for orphans
INDECENT, and poor, and endow them
every year; it is enough to send SOt
600 missionaries abroad and through
out our country every year; 1T Is
enough to give every man, woman
and child in the land two and a hal
barrels Of extra fine flour and stol
the cry for bread. This is the sun
spent annually for tabacco habit.
But to divide this sum to see how
it bears on each individual. This
great sum is an average of tel
dollars to every man, woman, and
child in the country. But not al
women and children, or all the mer
use tobacco. II half the people usec
it, the average cost would be seven
ty dollars. Suppose a young me
chanic spends for tobacco FIVE cent;
a day. S1S.25 a year--this is q sup.
position far below the average cost
at the end OF ten years with com
pound interest, the cost becomes
s240.54; at the end of twenty year.
the sum would be s9l7 scat the enc
OF thirty years SLAP II. This ma,
may pity his neighbor whose hous'
is burned from over his head, bu
he has slowly burned up a house to
himself. He thinks it all wrong an,
cruel that some friend has no HON
for him in his old age; he has de
stroyed one for himself'and perhap
suffered some physical consequence
} of the vice.
How much is the burden Of tob
, acco on villages? A Methodist minis
ter states that in his whole societ
spent in a year, for the support c
1 its own privileges and missions, 81
dollars, AMI sixty-seven churc.
e members spentSS45 tor tobacco, !
Western town expended s2,712 fc
!. schooling, churches and at til
r same time spent s4,09S for tobacc'
A correspondent for a Souther
paper affirms thatin any Souther
Y State where the negroes compos
half the population" The snuff TIN
is sold amounts annually to mo-
than the cost Of all the farming III
pliments of all kinds, including co
% ton gins, cotton-presses, steamer
gines aud all sorts mechanical toolI
and ends: 81 stand prepared wit
Chalmers challenge, Give me yol
G pinch of snuff and | will suppo
q the church, Give me your tobac,
o cigars, and snuff, and | will suppo
! the whole Southern Church, and {
= it handsomely.
:, 1t is well that good people feel
q much interest in this vice as The
3 do; may they take mucn more. l.
the young man that's hesitatil
'e about this vice consider well, a,
u save himself from its slavery. L
J. all unite and release this land, Il
poor, and hungry, and homeless
from the enormous burden of til
tobacco.