Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-17
SPEAKER AT STATE MEDICAL 60
GETTY MEETING SCORES USE
OF WEED,
DECLARED
TO BE lNsIpioUs DISEASE
DR.. Bailey Charges That Its Use Inn
pairs Health, Morals and Manners Of
Users-Stunts Mental Faculties, I'M
pairs Efficiency of Those Addicted to
Its Use,

Des Moines, May 17.-The tobacco
trust got punch below the ribs today
at the meeting Of the Iowa State Med
ical Society. DIR. A S. Bailey, of Mount
Ayr, from the viewpoint of a medical
practitioner of long standing, exposed
the horrors Of the all but universal dis
ease, 'tobaccoisIn."
'Tobaccoism is an insidious disea se,'
he declared land few notice it, because
the symptoms are so common and so
many are affected by it, but the mani
festationS of the trouble are SO distinct
that there is no need of installing the
dreadful vampire that is sapping and
undermining the health of the greatest
people on earth, our own American
race"
DR. Bailey gave the analysis Of to-
bacco and pointed out the danger
from the poison of nicotine, and he de-
c,ared boldly that the use Of tobacco
in any form will so affect the whole
nervous system as to produce in the
user of same an impairment, stunning,
bunting or loss Of moral tone or sell
respect The tobacco heart is not
the worst thing about the use Of to-
bacco.
Bad For the Morals.
Select twenty-five young men, ao-
stainers from tobacco said the doc
tor, "and another twenty-five young
men that use tobacco, let all Things
else be equal, and place them before a
keen observer and he will readily see
that the moral tone Of the non-users IS
far above that OF the users of tobacco
He need mention only the gallanuy OF
movement, the gentleTess Of heart, the
chivalry Of manner, the agility Of body
the alertaess Of mind, the self-respect
exemplided il daily life to show you
the extreme difference in the mora
tone of the one who abstains and the
one who INDUCES in the use OF tobac-
co.
DR.. Bailey described the symptoms OF
"eobs ccosm, as follows:
First Indifference to the rights OF
others. Men will actually smoke, chew
and spit in public and in private, on the
street, sidewalk, in hall, home. church
or rheatsr, without once considering 1or
a moment the rights OF anyone, or the
feelings of those who would naturaiIs
be annoy sickened, disguised or dis
pleased with such things. Then again
persons who use tobacco have no re
gard for moral OF social law or Gus
toms: they observe only the CIVIL OF
statutory laws. This is shown by the
frequent placards placed here aiio
there. Tobacco using prohibited, also
no spttttng here They are not placed
for non-robacco users to read
Much Public Money Expended.
Mora than ten thousand dollars
year is expended out OF pubic 1unos
for tobacco for individuals, declared the
doctor, and this Is further evidence OK
the debasirg effort OF tobacco uslns.
The men In prisons and reformaoorles
are supplied with tobacco If they de-
mand It. Then there Is the expense
| Of smoking rooms in public places,
expensive cusptdors and tobacco staiis
In postonicee.
ITO prove that the moral tone OF
| tobacco users Is impaired" he con-
! tinued, Took at the floors OF public
buildings, such as court houses, puo-
! lie halls, hotels, legislative halls, ma
rional and state, and all national, state
county, city and town Offices. and you
will find them all literally covered with
cuspidors that men may have recep-
tacle in which to spit, and the influence
| is, and the facts are, that II these
| sptttoons were not provided for tooac-
CO users, they would spit On the moor
! or carpets These are facts, doubtless
symptoms, that everybody is 1amilia,
with, and ask you does it not SHOW
! a diseased or impaired moral tone!
I claim it does, and further it proves
I there Is a disease .tobaccoism thai
! brings such results. No other disease
| that I know Of or have ever heard OF
will produce such a group Of sygnp-
! toms.
! Students Handica pped.
| Again, witness the condition OF our
| students in our universities, colleges
and schools. 1t has become almost an
open fight to keep the public. unre-
served use Of tobacco out OF these in
| stttut.ons. It is a startling fact that
our young men, in school and out. have
become a vast army Of tobacco users
either chewing, smoking cigars, pipes
or cigarets. And here I will add that
no country on earth, Turkey alone ex-
cepted, has run riot with the tobacco
habit to equal the United States"
| DR.. Bailey declared that old grand
mother who SIN oked her pipe has gone
with the grandfather who took his
| toddy without harm, and added:
/ Il am firmly of the opinion from
| close observance that tobacco users are
| less courteous to and considerate %
| the opposite sex. That is, that keer
disc ern1nent and sensinility thai
prompts to courtesy, recognizing the
rights and liberties OF women, Is blunt.
ed or entirely lost, and to prove this
investigate the social condi tons OF peo.
pies or nations where the use OF to.
bacco is enormous. The social condi.