The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-06-25
Against Tobacco.

articles some time ago in you valuable
paper about boys smoking cigarettes,
and later by an Interested Citizen"
about tobacco, all of which l heartily
endorse, only they do not make 1t
strong enough nor go far enough to put
the blame where it belongs was won
dering II you would publish few lines
from another old crank, you see twenty
five or thirty years ago they called the
Prohibitionists cranks.
Well, cranks sometimes are very use
full things Large machines are some
times started with cranks Saw man
along the road one day start his auto
mobile by turning crank. Now listen.
Not many years ago preacher was
not allowed to say anything against
saloons or the liquor traffic In the pull
pit. 1t was politics, preaching politics.
Even woman was not allowed to
make prohibition speech In a country
church had to go to the school house !;
it would ruin the church. See. There
were few preachers who had back
bone enough to speak out in meeting
but the majority Of them kept mum.
But there were few old cranks
who kept cranking away for they
were as independent as hog on
ice, for they were not dependent on
any one for salaries nor looking for
votes. But now since it has become
more popular every would be politician
is trying to get hold of the Prohibition
Crank and speak or read with great
gusto what Lincoln, Woolley, Patter-
son, Hobson and all the other big guns
in the Prohibition Party said. The
preachers, too, can just spread them
selves when talking on the temperance
question.
But now listen. When it comes to
another subject and | think a very
important one, that Col. Booth, of the
Salvation Army, says is a greater
enemy to the country than whiskey
and is running more young men and
boys and disqualifying them for busi-
ness than whiskey, they are mum.
Now, then, you old crank, you are hint
ing about tobacco, cigarettes, &c,
Now, what is the use, as young lady
said last year at Chautauqua Her
subject was, IL she had any subject,
What Is The Use." Among other
things she said, "a young man or girl
was never satisfied until they were
wed and when wed about six months,
then they wished they were dead {"
Then what is the use to say anything
to these old smokers, &c A man
said to me in Hilsboro the first local
option election that was held, "We do
not expect to save or change these old
topers but we want to save the boys"
Now, If we can say something to keep
some boy from using tobacco in any
form and that boy can influence some
other boy and with the assistance Of
some of the W. G. T. U We can start
the ball a rolling and rolling and may
be able to put to shame some of those
Elders, Deacons and Sabbath School
teachers who 60 around blowing their
shrinking tobacco smoke in other peo
ple's faces.
Now, listen. Railroad companies
will not haul drunken man, neither
will they let man smoke in the same
car that the ladies ride In, for which
they are to be highly commended. But
you 60 into some stores and even some
banks, where ladies have to trade and
do business and you will see perhaps
the president, cashier and some Of the
clerks sucking at an old cigar.
Is there not law against selling
cigars and tobacco to boys under Is
years of age or to even give 1t away :?
Is the law kept or enforced Say,
Brother Preacher, you had better get
In line, for the fight is coming on the
tobacco question as it did on the liquor
question. l do not believe in jumping
onto the boys for smoking cigarettes
and letting the old Smokers 60 free.
More anon.
AN OLD CRANK.