Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-04

them weak and tottCting, Instead OK
ut would be bad enough n YOU should
repair NOur house with poor materials,
but surely d, must be built In the first
place with the best you can get.
You viii soon learn that boys and girls
are building their bodies, day after day.
until at last they reach fun age. After
wards they must by repaired as fast as
they wear out. II would be foolish to build
any part In a way to make Il weaker than
need be. Wise doctors have said that the
boy who uses tobacco while he Is growing
makes every part Of his body less strong than
It otherwise would be. Even his bones will
not grow SO well. Boys who smoke cannot
become such large, fine-lookiug men as
rettCs are small, but they are very poison
Gus. Chewing tobacco Is a worse and more
filthy habit even than smoking. The fire.
Queut splitting 1t causes Is disgusting to
others and hurts the health OF the Chewer.
Tobacco In any form is an enemy to youth.
II Is almost sure to stunt the growth, hurt
the mind, or cripple I'm some way any boy
or girl who uses H. II may not do all this
to every youth who smokes, but IL is al
ways true that no boy OF Z to q can begin
and mind when he is q years old as he
would have had II he had never used to-
bacCo. " YOU want TO be strong and well
men and women do not use tobacco I'm any
form
Then turn to page thirty-rlve and find
the following, headed Tobacco on the
why does any one wish to use tobaccoi
Because many men say that II helps them
and makes them feel better. Shall | tel
you how It makes them feel better? II 8
man is cold, the tobacco deadens his nerves
so that he does not feel the'cold and does
not take pains to make himself arne
II a man is tired or in trouble, tobacco
will not really rest him or help him out
OF his trouble. 1t only puts his nerves to
sleep and helps him think that he is not
tired, and that he does not need to over.
come his troubles 1t puts his nerves &c
sleep very much as alcohol does. and helps
him to be contented with what ought not
to content him, 4 boy who smokes OF
chews tobacco is not so good a scholar as
II he did not use the poison. lie cannot re-
member his lessons so well. Usually, too
he is not SO polite, nor so good a boy as he
otherwise would be"
When you are through with that, turn
to chapter viii on page IS, and read that
and ask yourself the question whether oil
not the situation is serious,
"A farmer who had been in the habit
Of planting his fields with corn, wheat and
potatoes once made up his mind to plant
tobacco instead. Let us see whether he did
any good to the world by the change. The
tobacco plants grew as tall as a little boy
or girl and spread out broad, green leaves,
BY and by he pulled the stalks and dried
the leaves. Some OF them he pressed into
cakes of tobacco; some he rolled Into
cigars, and some he ground into snuff. II
you ask what tobacco is good for. the best
answer will be to tell you what II will do
to a man or boy who uses " and then let
YOU answer the question for yourselves,
Tobacco contains something called nico-
tine. This Is a strong poison. one drop OF
1t Is enough to kill a dog. In one cigar
there is enough, II taken pure, TO kill two
men. Even to work upon tobacco makes
people pale and sickly, once / went into
n snuff mill, and the man who had the
care of Il showed me how the work wal
done. The mill stood In a pretty place be.
side a little stream which turned the mill
wheel. Tall trees bent over It and a fresh
breeze was blowing through the open win
dows. Yet the smell OF the tobacco was so
strong that 1 had to go to the door many
times for a breath OF pure air.. asked the
man IL II did not make him sick TO work
there. He said: Tt made me very sick for
the first few weeks. Then / began to get
used to 1t. and now I don't mind It, He
was like the boys who tried to learn to
smoke. 1t always makes them sick at first,
but they think 1t will he manly to keep
on. At last, they get used TO II. The sick
ness Is really the way in which the boys
danger here; you are playing with poison.
Let me stop you before great harm is
done Perhaps you will say: I have seen
men smoke cigars, even four or five In a
day and II didn't kill them II did not kill
them, because they did not swallow the
nicotine. They only drew in a little with
the breath. But taking a little poison In this
way, day after day, cannot be safe, or
really helpful to any one"
Not long ago Clarence barrow OF Chicago
was speaking by invitation at a prohibition
banquet. During his speech Mr.. barrow
said: You prohibittonists don't care how
many graves are filled, as long as they
political capital for YOU in the fact that
one person in every five who die dies OF
tuberculosis"
That's rum struck up Interrupter
"wen, rum isn't the only bad thing in
the world" continued the speaker u use
il bad. 1t has filled as many graves as
rum, perhaps. Would you prohibit to-
bacco?'
yes" roared his hearers. In fact, they
almost yelled the word.
l do not believe any OF you gentlemen,
as earnest as you may be, to increase your
business, want to see boys smoke cigar
cites or chew tobacco. / do believe that
when a man becomes of age he Is entitled
to use tobacco moderately, in any shape,
manner or form that he desires. But the
very people who will be using tobacco,
smoking your cigars, and your pipes and
your cigarettes, I'm a few years from now,
are being told with some truth, but also
with a great deal and perhaps more or
falsehood that they should never touch It,
because II is poisonous. II only the truth
were told the proper use of tobacco could
and never would be condemned. But exag-
g~eration and mis-statement abounds in
the teachings Of the very persons, who
above all, should be truly temperate and
Christian in words and action. They would
destroy every vestige Of the industry at
this very moment II allowed to do so-and
1 dare say, without any idea OF compen-
sating you for the property so destroyed
sixty years ago the prohlbitlonlsts
started in with their anti-liquor crusade.
Eighteen years ago the Anti-Saloon league
began it's battle In the state Of Ohio. Brew
ers, dlstillers, liquor dealers and saloon
men laid back in their easy chairs and
laughed. Had they taken advantage or the
opportunity even ten years ago they could
have prevented much of the unnecessary
and wanton destruction OF their property
and trade and saved millions Of dollars.
Your industry Is In the position that the
llquor people were ten years ago. II II n
question that rests entirely with you
whether or not you are going TO take time
by the forelock and act. The danger Is I'm
minent-your peril is grave.
If you will pardon the suggestion from
me, I will say TO you that the time Is ripe,
even now, for a national association OF to-
bacco manufacturers, dealers and growers,
The object OF this association should be
to defeat the prohibition and anti-saloOn
movement whenever possible. II need not,
I'm any manner be connected with the liquor
traffic. II should not he. But II ought 10
remember that every time a dry victory
II recorded II makes your enemies so much
the stronger and gives them go much
more power to attack and perhaps eNtermi-
nate eventually the very Industries I'm
which you are Interested. The headquarters
Of the association. ! think, should be in
Chicago the most central city IN the
United States: II should be organized Inn
mediately and no effort should be spaSSi
10 make II n success. ] know you viii have
difficulty at first in securing members, but