The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

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causes to which he attributes the downfall
of boys, said:
Cigarettes lead to craps. craps lead to
playing the horse races, horse races lead
TO larceny, larceny leads 10 burglary, and
burglary leads to the State prison. | can
say more than that. Out of the great num-
Der OF boys that came before me last year,
the majority of them smoked cigarettes,
and when you do find boy that is Gig
arctic fiend, he is the hardest of all to re-
form.
''In the beginning said the judge,
whenever boy is brought before me on
serious charge, L always ask him If he
smokes cigarettes, and l know what his
answer will be before he speaks, for he
is going to admit that he does. If he
didn't, he wouldn't be here charged with
serious crime. There is something in the
poison of a cigarette that gets into the
boys system and destroys all of his moral
fiber.
when I commenced my second term as
police Judge, there was such a great in
crease in the number of boy criminals that
were brought before me, that l really be-
came alarmed at the outlook. and COM
menced Investigations as to what was the
real cause. The result, | found was that
cigarette smoking was at the bottom of IT
all; and it Is an evil that the people OF this
State have got to fight at the next Legis-
lature, for it is growing fast and doing
really more harm than the liquor that is
sold TO men,"
What would you recommend to remedy
this evil?" was asked the Judge.
81 would abolish the sale of them alto
ci et is that hat the boy inhales the smoke
into his lungs and expells 1t through his
nostrils. Now. there is something about
nicotine or the poison in the paper, | am
unable to say-that gets into the blood and
permeates the whole physical and mental
system of the boy.
FALLS BEHIND IN STUDIES.
The first effect that is noticed on him.
IL he is school boy, is that he falls be-
hind in his studies. He will be lazy and
lanugid, and il he quits school and goes to
work he will be unable to hold a place be-
cause he is not physically strong enough
His moral senses seem deadened, and If ne
keeps on smoking there are just two places
in store for him before he becomes a man
thirty years old, and they are the insane
asylum or the graveyard, and it would
much better be the latter.
Not long ago a boy was brought to tie
by his father. The boy was thin ana his
eyes were dull and expressionless. His IA
Their told me that ne a slave to cig-
arettes, and he was not fourteen years old.
He was so nervous that he shook like a
man with the palsy.
The father had been trying to break him
of the habit and had locked him in a room
for tWenty-four hours so tnat ne could not
smoke. This boy fourteen years old was in
the same condition old whisky topper
when he has not been allowed a drink for
two or three days. In fact, he was almost
delirious.
IT told the father that he would have
to take the BOY 10 a doctor and get him
some kind of medicine to quiet his nerves.
and the last l saw of them the father was
leading the boy, who was a complete phys
ical wreck, down the street. And tell you
that case appealed TO me, and my neart
went out to both the boy and the father.
Il always feel the judge went 10
say. that there is some hope for a roy
who does not smoke cigarettes, for he can,
in almost every case that has come 20 my
notice, be reformed; but when a child Is a
cigarette fend. | know that there is little
hope for him. for the little instinct of bride
which exists in most children seems 10 he
entirely extinct with the cigarette SMOKER.
The truth is. / dislike very much IL
turn a boy over to one of the volunteer