Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-01-25
Temperance Continent.

CHI pSl duIS COMMENT
Edited by the Press Superintendent of the
W. G. II. U. of Willmar.1
Let us have faith that right makes
might; and in that faith let us, to the
end, dare to do our duty as we under
stand it.-Abraham Lincoln.
X II
DR.. A. G. Nelson, of San Francisco,
physician to several boys schools,
says:
A good deal has been said about the
evils of cigarette smoking, but one
half the truth has never been told.
Cigarette smoking first blunts the
whole moral nature. It has an appal-
ling effect upon the physical system as
we'll. It first stimulates and then stu
pefies the nerves 1t sends boys into
consumption. It gives them enlarge
ment of the heart and it sends them
to the insane asylum. I am often call
ed in to prescribe for boys for palpi-
tation of the heart In nine cases out
of ten this is caused by the cigarette
habit. have seen bright boys turned
into ounces, and straightforward, hon
est boys made into miserable towards
by cigarette smoking. l am speaking
| the truth that nearly every physician
| and nearly every teacher knows.''
There is no greater cruelty than to
! allow a child to form the tobacco hab-
it. Any physical brutality of which a
parent can be guilty will hardly CON-
pare with this in inhumanity. An in
creasing number Of business firms
have the rule-"No cigarette smoker
need apply" Business success is for
the boy who is wise enough to let Gig
arettes alone.
,, a meeting Of the local w. @. T. U.
was held at the home of Mrs. Rasmus-
son the 10Th. Mrs. Young was elected
president for the remainder of the
year, ending in July, to fill a vacancy
caused by the resign alton of Mrs.
Craswell, who has filed the position
with tact and Christian ability.
Though there may be work for her
to do in Breckenridge, her new home,
yet we cannot help but miss her.
! There's a work for me and work for YOU
Something for each of us now to do
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| The youth Of today have in their
own hands the moulding of the future,
not only of themselves, but of the ma
ton, by the everyday habits Of their
lives. By their thoughts and aspira-
lions, by the moral tendencies which
they are cultivating in themselves,
they are determining what shall he the
characteristics of the nation in hun
dred years to come. Shall this be, in
a hundred years, nation Of drunk.
ards? The young people of today are
deciding that question. Shall it be a
nation of invalids? This also the
young people are deciding. Shall il
be a nation filled with greed of gain,
with a low standard of morals, with
dishonest methods in business, OF
shall it be nation wherein vigorous
health is therule; unfinching courage
absolute integrity and pure morality
shall everywhere reign? What the
young people of today are making O.
themselves, physically mentally ani
morally, is deciding what shall be the
future of the country. 80
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Why do not those having authority
! in the case stop liquor selling to thu
enlisted soldiers of the United States.
Why at this late day in the progress
| Of science is. it necessary for the ma
! tional government to be urged, peti
4 tioned, s''besieged and bombarded'' K
get il to put a stop to this drunk ard
making, in our army? Why must ;
Well-mle aiming admins min istration, whicl