The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-02-04
CIGARET FIENDs.
.IHERE Is A AOUL OF GOOD IN
THING EVIL"
IS He AT FAULT?
CIgarsts Biessisg In Disguise. The
Doctors Conclusions Too Hastily
Drawn. Ths Learned Faculty sHust
he Wrong.

It has been strenuously affirmed Of
late by the medical world that cigaret
smoking is an evil Of great magnitude.
One of the chief curses in fact Of our day
and generation.
The disciples of K,calapius are doubt
less wise enough in their way. and their
learned disquisitions in support OF their
position regarding creosote. nicotine and
the like, we will not question for mo-
ment. They point also with consider
able force to the debilitating effect on the
brain, the mental and physical injury
sustained by the cigaret smokers in the
indulgence Of their pernicious habit;
nevertheless the conclusions of the doc
tors are too hastily drawn;-They are
| in word all wrong, miserably wrong, in
their reasoning, as we shall show pres.
emily.
| Shakespeare says, "There is soul OF
good in things evil" and if we look
into it philosophically, the question at
issue will certainly verify this subtitle
saying of the immartial bard.
Cigaret smoking, instead Of being an
unmixed evil may be in certain sense
BLESSING IN DISGUISE
so far as the race at large is concerned,
and is undoubtedly necessary outRrowth
of our present civilization, part OF that
inscrutable economy that is seeking ever
for the survival of the 6ttest, regardless
seemingly, Of the means employed to at
tain it. By the operation of this law,
cruel as it may be, it will be seen that
the cigaret fiend, deficient, as he necess
arily is in mental power at the start, be
comes still more so, as the habit fasteni
itself upon him until he soon becomes
idiotic and fit only to join the family o.
dudes and therefore incapable OF filling
any position requiring talent and respon
sibility, to the exclusion Of their NOR
fortunate fellow beings.
In times now nearly extinct, busines
men could get along well enough with
very moderate supply of brains If sur
A plemented by little education. and il
those days there were many more chance
for mechanics and laborers than there ar
t at the present time. Now, however
=! labor saving machines are doing the wor
a that in former days furnished employ
T. ment to millions Of people. The ca
d is for greater subdivisions Of labor and
II more thorough education in order th'
l. the fewer positions now open may
Is filled to the best possible advantage.
!, urgent, indeed, is this call that none b'
g the most proficient and best qualified "a
'e count on getting them.
In this state Of things it is at once a
W parent that the cigaret 6end wit
IL HIS POOR ADDLED BRAIN
stands not the slightest show in the fer
conflict for bread and butter; but Ill
or the weaker vessel in all other depar
ID ments must 60 to the wall, and that t.
ht with headlong speed.
he We are truly sorry for him-the po
he misguided weakling, and would save hi
II, if we could, but fate. inexorable fate, h
at decreed otherwise. Neither do we ex,
as in his folly or early extinction, as . Vi
en- que although sad specimen Of the gen
,et homo, but call attention merely to
q operations Of the law in question, that {
he spite human sympathy, compels
of feebler and useless to fall back and
is show moreover, that since there I
100 those SO idiotic as to wantonly poi,
ish their lungs and weaken their brains
he tho insane habit, the sooner they die {
or and give place to useful men the bett
be Therefore, we say, the learned facu
must be wrong, for Divine providel
cannot err; and it hath ordained that
f,ttest only shall survive.