Mountain advocate., 1910-04-15
TOBACCO
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heroism OF the men in the furrow,
led by it's chief organizer, Clarence
LeBus, and inspired by its priestess
and prophecies, Miss Alice Lloyd,
who found the tobacco growing in
dustry a vassal and have made it
free-a headless, helpless mob, and
have systematized it into an institu-
tion-the shackles have been strick-
en- from child labor in the field, and
the faces Of the little ones lifted from
the ground and turned to the sun in
practical way which a world of
theoretical lectures could not have
accomplished in life time.
Brave barons wrested the Magma
Charter of English liberty from the
hands of King John-George Wash
ington, after a seven years war,
freed America from British domina-
ton. But was ever a greater work
accomplished than the work
wrought here, or one of more heroic
or far.reaching achievement.
"Gather in the golden sheaves!"
Instinctively the words of the sacred
song arise as the yellow streams
come pouring into town from pools
which were the inspiration OF Cod
like men. Slaves to the most viii
famous combination that ever cursed
mankink no longer drag their weary
limbs to the public marts begging
their master for the poor right t.
live, but booted and spurred, they
ride like kings, bearing aloft the typ.
ical product whose leaves are for
the healing of the nation"
This is no sentimental rhar sody.
The late Ex-Governor and United
States Senator of North Carolina,
Thos. c. Clingman, some years ago
published a pamphlet revealing the
medical virtues of the tobacco Leaf
The writer met Governor Clingman
in Washington nearly thirty years
ago, where the opportunity and the
pleasure of his almost daily ass )cia-
ton were enhanced by occupying
adjoining rooms for several months.
Governor Clingman could adorn
any subject with his classic speach,
to which the listener gave
ready ear, especially when he ex.
plotted his favorite theme-the To-
bacco Plant. have wondered why
the State OF Kentucky has never
adopted this as her emblem. The
various oaks and flowers, with the
golden rod and the morning glory
have been suggested, but what in
royal strength and beauty can sur
pass the Burley stalk at that season
of the year when the sky is filled
with gold and the fields are march
ing on, from month to month, in
long ranks of varying green, purpe
and saffron. like an army with ban
nersl
For many seasons of Congress,
protests and complaints were fer
vent against the miserable ventia-
tison of. the Representative Hall.
Even an indifferent student of Cause
and Eject could detect that those
$ of the members who used tobacco,
either smoking or chewing, were
more or less exempt from catarrhal,
bronchial and other pulmonary ills,
Governor Clingman discovered that
tobacco was both a preventative
AID cure. He held. that tobac.
co leaf. dipped in hot water, would
relieve pneumonia and tuberculosis
i applied over the lungs or other
affected organs. In typhoid and
scarlet fever also. it as a boon to
the sufferer.
AS an antiseptic the virtues of to-
bacco heve been recognized for gen.
erations in sections where the plant
is native TO the soil. Instances
could be multiplied by the score oil
its wonderful properties in this re.
gard. Ugly wounds in the foot from