Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04
& Council Bluffs
Street Railway Company
WILL 1T Be TOBACCO NEXT?
Man Who Has Travelled Says Rum
blings Are Heard.
PROHIBITION CAUSE OF ACTION
Time TO Organize Against Any
such Move is Now, Says Sec
Rotary of Allied Trades
Association.


Association.
At "a recent meeting Of the National
Allied Tobacco Trades association in Chi
cago, Mr.. Philip A. Grau, secretary. who
has travelled from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, making a study of the situation,
sounded a note of warning. He pointed out
that the prohibition wave was furnishing
encouragement to the ant~i-tobacconists
who believe that II prohibition is success
full, they can swing the influence of that
success toward the determination Of the
tobacco industry" and he predicted that
the paid agitators and reformers now on
the prohibition payroll would eventually
be found endeavoring to put down to-
bacco"-for the money that IS in it for
them.
Mr.. Grau called attention to the action
Of a religious conference in Denver in
placing tobacco under the ban, and to the
action of another sect at Cantor who
passed a resolution that in future no minis
ter would be licensed If he were a user of
tobacco.
"A little more than a year ago." he con-
tinued, "a prominent Methodist bishop of
the east made a public statement that he
deploTed the burning of the buildings in
Kentucky in which tobacco was stored,
but that he thought the destruction of the
tobacco was an excellent thing" Mr..
Grau's address in full was as follows:
AS a representative of the United States
Manufacturers and Merchants associa-
ton, ii has been my pleasure for the last
eighteen months to travel from the Atlantic
to the Pacific coast, studying one of the
greatest questions that has ever agitated
statement is not an eXaggeration! Nothing
stpce the days of the civil war has COM
manded the attention of the public for so
long a time and has been given such seri-
Gus. consideration as what is known as the
prohibition wave.
to me that men who are as wide awake
and interested in your own affairs as you
gentlemen are, cannot see the handwriting
on the wall. You may be inclined to treat
the matter lightly, as many of you are, l
am sorry to say, but II you will pardon my
calling attention to the danger which al
ready threatens you, / will be only too glad
to give you the Nenefit Of my experience
and allow you to apply 1t to the tobacco
industry, in whatever manner or form you
may see fit.
The prohibitionist and the Anti-saloon
league sympathizer is in most instances sin
cere. He thinks he is right, and with that
feeling in his heart, he works day and nignt
70 accomplish his end. My experience has
taught me that he has in many instances,
although by no means in the majority OF
them, a right to oppose some phases of
the liquor traffic. 1t is equally true that
instead OF looking at the question from a
sane and reasonable standpoint, our so
called dry friends have become decidedly
emotional and hysterical. 1t needs no eX-
PLANTATION to make clear to you gentlemen
that an opposition to a business or to a
movement which Is hysterical and emo
tional in its nature is an extremely danger
Gus one, and should be checked as soon as
possible. Reason, not Mysteries, should
rule.
You will find upon close examination
that certain religious sects have been and
nFnhQ hlU QlVVaUa will he nnnnaaA en- AVIAN
the moderate use of alcoholic drinks and
tobacco. These very sects are already
attacking your industry, because they
have seen how strong the prohibition
movement has grown in its opposition to
the liquor traffic. They believe that when
prohibition, or the Anti-SalOOn league, is
successful they can swing the influence of
that success toward the determination Of
the tobacco industry. Whether they do SO
or not, when the prohibition movement is
broken, the paid agttators-reformers for
revenue only-who are now earning their
living in foisting deception and fraud
upon the people in the name of morality,
VIII find II necessary 10 turn TO some
thing else in order TO keep up their COM
Portable incomes. They are already lay
ing a foundation to do this in regard to
the tobacco business. They realize hat
the A~nti-Saloon league must either con-
quer or fall within a short time.
II you think I am eXaggerating, let me
newspaper a few weeks ago. From DEN
yer, where the Presbyterians held a con-
ference OF some nature or other, m
the news that in convention assembled
they had placed a ban on tobacco n
were "strenuously opposed to It's use. In
Canton, o., when a few weeks ago the
United Brethren held their conference. a
resolution was introduced endeavoring to
prohibit any licensed preacher in their
church from preaching hereafter unless
he gave up the use OF tobacco. II was
defeated, but a substitute was passed to
the effect that in the future no man
who used tobacco In any shape, manner
gW form could hAnnnNn a INaEVgnA VnNnNatar
of their church.
A little more than a year ago a promi-
nent Methodist bishop Of the east made
a public statement that he deplored the
burning OF the buildings in Kentucky I'm
which tobacco was stored. but that he
thought the destruction Of the tobacco
was an excellent thing.
In some Sunday schools cards are now
being circulated reading approximately as
follows: 81 hereby solemnly pledge my
self 70 pay the sum Of -- cents per
month for the period OF one wear for the
support Of the Anti-Saloon league, and 7
DO further pledge myself to abstain from
the use of intoxicating liquors and to-
bacco in any shape, manner or form" I
may not have the exact wording, but !
am positive that the substance Of the
pledge as / have given II IS correct.
Let me take YOU one step further. II
YOU VIII turn 70 age II Of Pathfinder
S;0,d / C SShiIa,s Health dPG5imsI yQg win
Use TobaccoH' II You viii pardon me. 7
viii read that chapter.
PERHAPS some boy will say: Grown
neople are always telling us. this will DO
for men. but N Is not good for boys
Tobacco r. not good for men; hut there
Is a very good reason why Il Is worse
for bows.
'Tf YOU were going to build a house
would II be wise for YOU 10 put into the
stOnework OF the cellar something that
would make II less stronR9
Would n be wise to PIT into the NOR
tar. tho woodwork or the nails. the walls
or any where. something that would make