Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-05-23
FRIDAY, MAY %, 1919.
OUR NEXT BIG FIGHT

GUNNER or later civilization is going to awaken
to the fact that the tobacco habit is just
about the most senseless, disgusting and harmful
practice INDUCED in by the human family, the
liquor habit not excepted. To be sure the drinker
may have his reason dethroned temporarily and
commit henious crime, which might not have
resulted from the over indulgence in tobacco smoke
but the consequences to both the individual and
society at large are just as far reaching and dis
astrous. The habit is even more loathsome and
disgusting than the liquor habit, and how it could
have obtained worldwide indulgence is profound
mystery to all thinking people,
Every student of physiology, hygiene and So
GEOLOGY Is agreed that tobacco is very injurious to
the human race. 1t paralyzes and deadens the sem
sibility and the nerves it clouds the brain and in
jures the heart; it saps the vital energy and also
the ambition it fouls and polutes the body and
depletes the pocket-book
What excuse is there, then for society that
has had the courage and strength to Danish Barley
Corn from it's midst in this country, enduring such
an insduous, demoralizing enemy as this?
The tobacco habit must be placed exclusively
on the debit side of the ledger 1t benefits no one
but depletes both the bank balance and the vital
forces of every individual addicted to its USE The
only reason for its existence is the enormous num-
Der of its slaves and victims who lack the courage
and hardwood to rise up and insist upon it's down
fall. They receive no benefit from its use-they
can scarcely be said to derive any pleasure from
its indulgence They only experience an unnatur-
al, unclean craving for the weed after they have
courted its society and companionshp, and then
are denied it.. And even this speedily disappears,
and except for the fact that others are constantly
bringing the reformed user in contact with the
weed, it would soon be forgotten. Were society to
rise up and with one accord Danish the sale and
use OF tobacco from our midst no one would eX-
perence any serious inconvenience. This is proven
by the fact that dozens of habtual users, having
definitely made up their minds to quit the drug
report that there is nothing to it except making
the resolution. And just as sure as the sun shines
society will one day arrive at this decision and the
fight for the abolition of tobacco will be won before
we fully realize that it is on Good morals
have acquired strength by the defeat of one enemy
and will go into the fight against its twin relic
with more courage and determination; and vice
having received one walloping, will throw down
its weapons and take to its heels just that much
quicker in a second encounter.
score of years ago, when Dr. Middleton was
mayor of Cedar City, and when there were prac-
tically no dry spots in Utah. the gauntlet was
thrown down to the liquor element and popular
vote was carried to make Cedar City dry The
election carried and the law was passed. but for
years and years the opponents of prohibition
fought to down it. They tried in every way pos
sibe to discredit and make Intellectual the dry law
but by persistent and constant battling right pre-
vailed and the success acquired here shone as
beacon light to the balance of the state and en-
couraged other communities to do likewise The
reform started by few heroic individuals here
spread until it encompassed the entire state, anc
had its fruition when the entire state adopted 9
dry law. 1t would be far-fetched for Cedar City tc
claim all the credit for this reform which of ne
cessity was dependent upon the united support OF
all citizens of lofty aspirations and courage tC
stand up for them But we do claim large share
of the initiative in the move for setting the state
and nation free from King Alcohol
And why not Cedar City be one of the first
communities in the state to move to the attack OF
this other great enemy of society? Are we less
courageous or patriotic now than we were then