The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-04-04
DIR YATES REPLIES
Talks About Dyspeptlc RefUrmerS
and the "Fllthv Weed"
ADVISES the Saints 10 SWepten Their
Breath with Tobacco.
SHOWS UP AUSTIN's INCONSISTENCY
He Says That the Long Haired Morality
Shrieker Should Reform Himself
and Quit HowIing.

Shrleker Should Reform Himself
and Quit Howling.
In the current issue Of the Raleigh
Christian Advocate, DR.. Yates replies in
his usually happy and convincing style
to the inquiry of Colonel Austin; "Can
the church use money coming into its
treasury from sources that some persons
may regard as immoral :"
The article being too long to copy in
its entirety we give the following ex-
tracts:
My conclusion is that the church is not
required to throw out money because A
says, "that dollar was given by tobacco
raiser" and B says, that dime was given
by an editor who takes money for whis-
key advertisements"-(and this last
would get Webster)-and c says, "that
nickle was given by a cigarette maker"
and so on. If Brother Austin believed
his own premises, does he not see that
not only Trinity college would suffer,
land this seems to be the object of all the
TRADE against cigarettes,) but Chapel
Hill would suffer; and so would Brother
Abernethy's college, the Oxford Orphan
Asylum, Greensboro Female college, the
pastors Of the Asheville churches, and
even Brother Austin would be short in
his bread and butter. =
The phrase "filthy weed" and filthy
habit" so often in the writings Of some
self-made saints, reminds me to suggest,
that | know some of them, who, if they
would use tobacco moderately upon their
decayed teeth it would not only lessen
the filth, but improve the breath.
| have reminded RrOther Austin, above
that if the saints views about tobacco
were carried out, many enterprises in
education and the church would be seri.
ously crippled if not destroyed. To en-
able him to see this, let him suppose that
cigarettes and smoking tobacco were
suppressed by law, how could the far
mers continue to support the church and
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markets for their best grade of tobacco
would be virtually destroyed What did
they get get for bright cutters before the
advent of cigarettes and smoking to-
bacco? Suppose the American Tobacco
company should remove their buyers
frsm every market within reach Of the
| producers of this section, what would
the farmer get for his bright tobacco
then? l am not arguing for any trust !;
for know nothing about it. But | am
arguing from common sense. Trinity
college would not be the only thing hurt
| OF course | said in my former article
that the growing Of tobacco and its manu-
facture into cigarettes and smoking and
chewing tobacco VI as not morally wrong
Some people may injure themselves by it's
excessive use. lfinjury of course is
morally wrong. Bat if we stop making
everything by which some people may in
| jure themselves we shall get back to a
very primitive condition. And even
when we get there we shall still need
Brother Austin to pass law to take
Noah grapevine away from him, and ap-
point "a committee to cut down the apple
tree which Eve used to her injury!
think if parents will properly instruct
their children at home as to the hurtful
effects Of tobacco upon boys, there will
be little trouble; and poor man could
enjoy this, almost the only luxury he can
afford, without having laws passed en-
poNering dyspeptic fanatics to run
around pulling notes out of other peo-
Piles eyes, while at the same time their
.o1n eyes are yellow with envy, SANDER,
and all uncharitableness
| heard the statement made so often
years ago, that the paper of the cigar
cites was poisoned, that | thought it was
true-that somehow it might require
such treatment to make it tough, but
since then have investigated the matter;
and | find it a very foolish mistake.
Professor BabcOck, state chemist of Mas
sachusetts, testified before health com
mittee appointed by the state Legislature,
tdat there is no poisonous matter what
ever in cigarette paper. He analyzed
various brands of cigarettes, and says
they contain no opium or other poison
Gus drugs. He declares that no recog
nized authority in chemistry ever made
the charge that there was any doctoring
of the paper Of cigarettes. So says the
state chemists of Tennessee, Georgia and
New York.
l am no advocate for people using to-
bacco if they don't want to. | neither
smoke cigarettes nor chew tobacco, nor
do mean anything between the lines.
am very moderate smoker of cigars,
and it would produce fun for any church
to try to pass law to keep me from it.
think there are many persons who
ought not TO smoke cigarettes or use to-
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