Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-20
FOES OF CICARET
TO renew FIGHT

Chicago, Nov. 20.-The Anti-Cigaret
league is forming alliances with wo-
mems club, educational forces, Sunday
schools and churches throughout the
state In preparation for a demonstra-
ton against the use Of cigarets and to
mold public opinion in favor Of drastic
Legislation on the subject.
When the 4sth general assembly con-
venes the legislators will find a we'll
organized lobby pitted against the to-
bacco interests and refusing to allow
an anti-cigaret bill to be killed in CON-
mittee.
Miss Lucy Page CASTOR, superintend-
ent of the league, has been working
for months preparing the campaign
and predicts that Illinois will be one
of four states to adopt the Kansas law
( this year.
I'VE have the bill prepared, have
friends enough in the legislature this
year to force 1t to vote and believe
the markets of Illinois will be purged
of cigarets within a year." said Miss
CASTOR yesterday.
This year Representatives Thomas
z. Lyon and Senator H. S. Magill will
be our floor leaders. We believe that
Senator Magill will be able to prevent
Senator Ettelson from killing the bill
in committee as he did two years ago.
I'VE will ask the passage of the most
drastic act that public sentiment will
support. We want the law to be prac-
tically copy of the Kansas law, which
form to minors and prohibits the man
ufacture or sale Of cigarets.
1--WE would like to make 1t a crime
to possess or use cigarets, but that has
been tried without success. We find
that so drastic a law would cost us
popular approval.
I'VE will have friends OF influence
in Springfield who. I believe. will be
able TO prevent the appointment to
membership on the license committee
of the senate of men who represent
the tobacco trust and are pledged to
throttle our bill
THE enemies of the cigaret have
seen a bill pass the house five times,
only to be killed in committee Of the
senate each time. 1t has come to be
generally known that Senator Ettelson
represents the tobacco trust. He fell
heir to the mantle of Senator Evans
Ettelson will not be as strong this
year as in previous sessions.
I'VE are centering our fight on Mich
} igan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. In
diana will furnish the f1ercest fight we
have ever waged. There was joker
in the last Indiana anti-cigaret law
and it was repealed. o. E. Baker Of
the Indiana assembly was indicted fol
bribery while representing the tobacco
trust in the fight against us. We have
all his accounts, letters and memor
anda, and will make things unpleasant
for some assemblymen if we do no
receive fair chance.
I'VE have information of the use o.
$4,000 in bribing the license commit
tee of the Illinois senate to kill oul
bill two years ago. If we obtain a few
connecting links of evidence we ma!
tell the name of the man who receiv
ed the $4,000. He was to have divid
ed it among the members of the com
mittee, but had power enough TO swing
them without money and pocketeC
their share of the bride fund"
-Four out of five of the practica
and sensible business men of Illinois
are with us in our fight. We will win.
Miss CASTOR will open headquarter
in Snrinofield during the couino see
sion of the legislature and will direc
the fight Delegations from women
clubs in all parts of the state are ex
pected to appear before the hcens
committee CT both houses ant
demand the passage of the bill