The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-06-11
Against Tobacco Business.

Editor NEWS HERALD said that
my next article would be, Can a Con-
scientious Christian Raise, Manufact.
ure Sell or Use Tobacco ?" am not
asking this question to an tnldel,
skeptic or one Of those so called higher
critics, but to the individual that be-
lieves the word of God as it teaches
mans obligations to God and one
another.
You say, II believe in the divine
revelation" Well, then we will COM
mence with the creation of this won
derful earth. God created it and gave
il the quality of production without
which man could not subsist. Then
God created man in his own image.
commanding him to go forth and
multiply and replenish the earth and
to till the soil from whence must come
everything that was conductive to
mans happiness, health and comfort
The earth and the fulness thereof be-
longed TO God then, as it does now, and
mankind was to be the recipient of
Gods bounties under certain prohibit
tions. Men started out in the begin
ming as Gods stewards, having to
account to God for the manner in
which they possessed the earth. God S
primitive native was ever growing,
increasing in righteousness until the
perfect day.
[ must go back to the text, raising
Cabocco. In its origin such thing as
raising tobacco for its present use was
never thought Of, and l presume that
the worms that feasted upon 1t never
Thought the time would come when
they would be hunted down and driven
from their possession and mankind,
created in Gods image, would slip in
and take their place and devour their
substance But, nevertheless, it is So
And there are but three things that
will use tobacco, the worm, that God
created for that purpose, the noun
tain goat and man. am msure no man
can ask the divine blessing upon his
work as he cultivates the weed, that
is conscientious Christian. The only
reason that can be given to satisfy a
depraved appetite and an avaricious
longing for money. The love Of money
is the sole reason that can be given for
the manufacture of tobacco. Guilt
waiting and manufacturing has placed
it upon the market and the retailer
feeds the cultivated appetite for the
money. There can be no high, enob-
ing act in the whole business. The
business is blighting and degenerating
our young men and boys, more than
any deteriorating influence in Christ
endom
What does this system Of business
effect2 Suppose that the thousands
OF acres cultivated in tobacco were
in potatoes and other arti-
cles of food and was manufactured and |
sold for the table, 1t certainly would |
cut figure in the high cost Of living. |
When you investigate Hillsboro with |
her ten churches and find that more |
money is spent for tobacco in its vari-
Gus forms than is paid for the support |
of all these churches, you will wonder
if God notices such items. And yet in |
twenty years have never heard a
sound from Hillsboro pulpit upon
this subject. 1t is fact that most of
the tobacco In Hillsboro is sold by pro- |
Tossing Christians, remember, dear
reader, that write this with malice
Conone and love for all. want people
20 think and investigate this wonder
full business which today is sweeping
like destructive avalanche over all
countries, making record not only for
time but for eternity.
INTERESTED CITIZEN.