Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-05
ATTACKS The CIGARETTE.
Governor Bliss would Exclude III,


Nasty Things from Mtchigan
Lansing Mich. Jan i-In his inail-
gural mes lgs - tbs legislature veg
terday Afternoons Governor Bliss e.,s-
phaticalIy paced the seal 81 his ,Issap-
prevail upon the Cigarette habit AND
recommended the enactment Of a lstW
ITO suppress the manufacture ind us IL
the Offensive article. Later he ex-
pressed himself al length in telling why
he deemed radical legislation to Sc
necessary.
have no special reasons for rs-cts,rs-
lnending Legislation on the subjees. he
said other than those Which wiil
resdily suggest Themselves to anyone.
else giving the matter a little thought
II Is matter of common knowledge.
believe, that cisarettes are hu.tfui to
human beings, but do not know on.
any striking lnciGenees oil individual
depravity caused Dystheir use
In a general way l have 3kncWn tina.
the continued U.S. of cigarettes has 4.
Very Gsnuralizing effect upon the VIC
TINS of the habit. 1t requires no Won
eerful powers of observation to bring
one TO that eonclleion. liz my visits TO-
the a!mshousss ard asylums OF tho
state recently my attention may hassS
been drawn 10 this fact but i am moi
conscious OF it's having given ms any.
new light on the subject.
AS a rule, and possibly because ST
the Very tissapness Of tfis artiela TIE
cigarette is resporsi bie for the acquire
ment OF the tobarco habit by /. very
large number of boys ans; ii is o,ljfe
likely that many of them would d4fe1
contracting the habit were ii moi fD,
the existence of the noxious article.
Grown men may y. able 10 lse. st<oae co
without great damage Is themselves
but TO the Youth the cigars tie is en-
cesdingly harmfnl
confess that the spectacle of a small
boy putting at a cigaret gives me a
shock every time ! see it. IT not only
impairs the intellect, Injuries the health
slnd leads @ other forms q depravity.
eut Il creates a desire for other excuses,
Which ruin many 1t our young men.
believe 1t mighs be established that
many victims of the morphine habit and
the users cf other deadly drugs were
first users Of cigarets. 1t is a habit that
S rarely broken, 4 fact which demon
strates tina the use of cigarets is more
sGaHSsTous man otslef nabitS.
We surround the sale of LIQUORS with.
restrictions so that the young man may
not acquire the habit, but the clgaret is
70 be had everywhere. The boy who sells
.lapers for a living may buy them, ana
in the very nature of the article they
can not BE- kept away from the youth so
long as they are permitted to be Sold.
The wife of Governor Bliss has been
connected With the management of the
Industrial Home for Girls al Adrian for.
several years, and ii is understood that
quite large proportion of the girls who.
are sent to that institution are habitual
users of cigarets. 1t is said to be very
rare that girl who has become con.
frmed in heir use responds to the eff
forts for reformation that are put forth
8. the Institution.
Governor Bliss does not assume to-
suggest the form of law to prohibit the
sale of cigarets, nor to advise the iegis-
luture as 10 the penalty which should be
provided
1T is a great evil. 2 he says, land the
state should do everything possible TO
prevent it,
To Freeze Out Middicmen.
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