Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-16
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Sunday School" Judge Brown said in
part:
"When today, this Easter Sunday. all
hearts are turned toward the church,
which Is today the glory of Christ and
the greatest triumph of his resurrec-
ton and when the happy faced and
joyous hearted children of our fire
sides, with rose-tinted cheeks and sky
kissed eyes cleaning up at the cross
which ages have transformed from Its
thorn-covered bed to one of blossoms,
are growing up to love this great church
through the Sunday school; yea, and
on the eve of a convention for the
Sunday schools of the state which gath
ering means more to the welfare of
the state than any other meeting which
could possibly he held, it is well that
we give some consideration to the
forces against which our church and
Sunday school it battling.
'It is because of the success of the
devils Sunday school that our chill
dren's courts have become a necessity,
For shame, I say that In the rush for
adult civilization we are losing the pure,
sweet childhood of the land, until today
children speak in language which would
frighten the girl or boy of twenty years
ago.
The DEVILS Sunday School
school. Would to God that with one
sacrifice this damnable, soul-murdef-
ing, hellish thing, clothed in innocent
white, to further mock at purity, could
be wiped out. l know of no call l
would not answer, no demand | would
not grant no sacrifice / would not
make to forever sing into the very
depths of the lowest hell this manu-
factured stick of hades' dynamite.
Where I spoke in moderate language
a few years ago l find that an eX
perience as judge of a Juvenile court
compels me to thunder in a war cry
today. Awake, ye slumbering citizens,
parents and teachers, arouse yourselves,
ministers and leaders of the young; the
volcano has burst and from the smoking
poison of the cigarette there is falling
into the very heart of the nation the
crust of a sin which makes a horror
stricken Naples a paradise compared
Herewith.
Some Attempt to Explain
"All sorts of statements have been
made in attempts to explain why a
cigarette was more harmful than to-
bacco used in other form. Some say
there is opium in the cigarette; others
that it is the poison in the wrapper;
Chicago zealot in the anti-cigarette
cause states that a secret something
gathered from the wilds of South Amer
lea Is placed in the cigarette.
"All these statements are mere
guesses and cannot be substantiated;
in fact there has never been discovered
but one more deadly poison than the
extract from tobacco and that is prus-
sic acid. So then there cannot possibly
be put into the cigarette tobacco any
thing that would make it more deadly
than the tobacco itself
The fact is that the cigarette in it.
self is the least harmful form in which
tobacco is manufactured. Lying side
by side, ten in a box, there is less
poison in a pack of cigarettes than in
an ordinary cigar. Lying side by side
there is less paper in the morning daily
than the bound volume of 400 pages.
But apply the match to each as they
lie side by side in this building. The
book would smolder away and do but
little damage as compared with the
loose paper, which would Immediately
catch fire and start a confagration
which would destroy the entire build
ing and perhaps an, entire city.
1.-The combustion in the paper would
be perfect. 1t would engender the
tiercest heat and make far different
gas than that made by the smoldering
book.
scores Tobacco Trust
"The damnable tobacco trust secured
the opinion of the London Lancet, than
which there is no greater medical
authority published, on the cigarette
and cigarette tobacco, as compared
with the pipe and cigar tobacco. Their
opinion was this, that that particular
cigarette tobacco was the 'mildest and
sweetest form in which tobacco could
be manufactured and in comparing
the different articles, and as articles
only, they placed in order Il strength
the pipe, the cigar and the cigarette.
This opinion of this reputable medi-
cal authority had been quoted widely,
and I have seen 1t quoted on huge
placards, together with the statement
that more of this tobacco sold last
year than all others combined
Now what are the facts? In the
same issue of the London Lancet con-
tanning this report there appeared an
editorial which stated that the reason
that cigarettes being in themselves the
least harmful were doing the greatest
harm to the human system was in their
manner of use. That while the pipe
and cigar were smoked, the cigarette
and cigarette tobacco was inhaled.
Perfect Combination Formed
"Also there comes in the burning,
which is freer owing to the looseness
of the tobacco and wrapping more
perfect combustion, making pyradine,
creosote and nicatine gases, which
gases are not made in the smoldering
cigar and the less combustable pipe
with the old fashioned smoking to-
bacco. So while in itself the pipe con-
tains the strongest tobacco, yet in its
use it is the least harmful with it's
smoldering fire like the book, and its
stem which catches a great deal of
nicotine.
1.-THE pipe and cigar smoker finds that
the smoke coming in contact with the
membrane of the mouth satisfies,
while the cigarette smoker inhales the
fumes from the cigarette and thereby
covers over 100 times the surface of
membrane, and the far more tender
and vital parts, even to the forcing of
the poison gases up through the head
and brain. All. no wonder that manu-
featuring establishments, railroads and
bankers protest against the employ
ment of these dope fiends.
For the life of me l cannot see why
there should ever be a discussion as to
the deleterious effects Of cigarettes.