The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-01-19

OF. it is forbidden will lightsit if he
can get an opportunity. If a man
does not intend to smoke he can de-
rive no pleasure from carrying a roll
Of tobacco in his hand 1t is true
that some people obtain satisfaction
from carrying an unlighted cigar be-
tween the lips, but, as society insists
that tobacco smoke shall not offend
the air of public buildings and cars
which are for the convenience of both
men and women, the prohibition of
cigar chewing is not an important ad-
ditional hardship.
The offenses that are committed by
unreasonable smokers add very mate
rally to the burdens under which hui
manity suffers The non.smokers are
not the only persons who are troubled
by them. The man who smokes a
good cigar or pipe in a gentleman
like way is quite as much outraged by
puff of vile smoke or blast of sui
phur from the match which lights the
implement of woe, as the man, or even
the woman, who never smokes tObac-
co. There is no more selfish creature.
on the face of the earth than the man
who smokes in public places, and the
evil is not diminishing in the advance
Of civilization. Indeed, the fact that
it is increasing makes it doubtful if
civilization is really advancing as fast
as we think it is. Why man wants
to smoke in the open air is beyond the
comprehension of those who have a
just appreciation of good cigar; but
however that may be, gentlemen
could certainly never take pleasure in
putting smoke into the nostrils of his
fellow beings, making some i'll and
offending even the stoutest, for tobac-
| co smoke that has made the circuit OF
a mans interior does not make pleas
ant or wholesome breathing material
for any one. Your street car and
bridge smoker must be as conscience.
less as a hog and as impervious tC
public opinion. The man who thinks
that he ought to smoke where he
pieases is the kind of person who will
eat the last crust of bread in the house
and permit his wife and children to GO
hungry. As he is selfish enough to
smoke where makes himself nuisance
to his fellow creatures, he is coarse
enough to smoke vile tobacco AND
therefore we say that the bridge trus-
tees do right in forbidding the display
of any cigar or pipe on that part Of
the structure which leads to and from
the cars, and on the cars themselves
for the persons who will Violate the
plain law of decency, which, with ol
without formal regulations, makes il
improper to blow tobacco smoke intC
unwilling nostrils, is not to be trust.
ed. His cigar may be unlighted al
The moment, but he will light it sur.
reptitiously if he gets an opportunity
while he may even assert it to be IN.
lighted when the burning end is
thrust temporarily up his sleeve.
Tt would be we'll if the authorities
of the elevated roads could employ
policemen for the enforcement of a
similar regulation Public opinion
would sustain them, as it is, in even 6
more stringent enforcement Of theil
rule against carrying cigars, and espe-
cially would they be sustained in the
suppression Of the man who lights his
cigar on the top of the steps before
he descends, blows tobacco and sui
phur into the faces of those about
him, and throws his burning match
anywhere that his indifference may
suggest.-N. Y, Mail and Eepress.