The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-09-09

Hope is only for the youth who is
ashamed of his vileness.
The poison has already tainted his
moral nature, and for him the work
of dissolution and degeneration has be-
gun.
He is a defective-a physical, mental
and moral defective.
admit that the moral strabismus of
the cigarettist is not always caused
primarily by his smoking. I admit that
it is fact that the idle, slipshod, inert,
secretive, untruthfully taken to the
habit very kindly. In short, + admit
that because a thing does with a thing
the thing is not necessarily the, cause
Of the thing. The >hoodlum who hangs
around the livery stable or country
railroad station and is prone to the hay
NOV habit surely will not be fair to
blame his temperamental disability to
cigarettes; his troubles lies deeper.
The cigarette smoker is not degere-
rate because he smokes cigarettes.
Cigarettes Supply the conscience, dead
en- the brain, place the affections in
allegiance and bring the beast to the
surface.
apologize to the beast, for remem-
Der that the beast acts only in the
line Of it's natural appetite, but cigar
cite smoking has no basis in our
mother nature-jn no~form does it serve
in natures economics. It is an acquir-
ed vice, a dainty, refined, luxurious,
sensuous utilization of the senses that
lulls it's victim to his certain doom.
fha%~ -o{r oroff a
smoking often makes fine distinction
between the factory prepared article
and those they roll with their weak,
bony, nervous fingers in our. presence.
But after long and careful study of
the subject, I can find no reason: to
suppose that there is any real choice
either in the cigarette or cigarettists.
The burning Of paper and tobacco to
gether in close proximity to the saliva
distils a subtle, chemical poison that
has the sure effect even upon the
strongest constitutions ~;a~r-.a; .->'. -
Beginning as a habit, the matter ere
long becomes vice. The first indica-
ton of degenera ton is in your cigar
cite smokers secretiveness: He, feels
his weakness and so seeks to present a
bold 'front.' Bluff is his chief character
istic. He tries to make an impression
he talks big, is full Of promises, plans
and confidential utterances. = He con-
fuses dates, times, places, incidents and
often will tell you he has done thing
when he only intended to do it.
Only the strongest man is honest
only the healthy tell the truth.
A lie is disease Of the will--hypo-
crisy is symptom.
When the cigarettist pays his devo-
lions to nature he always passes the
time away by rolling and lighting a
cigarette, this being the only instance
when he displays a zeal in improving
the moments as they fly.
He dreams over his work, dawdles
indefinitely, picks things up and lays
them down, and proves for us again
the maximum that the strong man is
the one who can complete task, not
merely begin it.
One marked popularity of the ciga-
rette fiend is that invariably he makes
great discovery; it is that cleverness,
astuteness. tr1ckery, untruth, are good
substitute for simplicity. frankness
and plain common honesty.
High school teachers have all notic-
ed this disposition. Of the cigarette
smokers in their classes to play thin
blering with truth. They let their