St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-08-09
NICOTINE A ARE
AFTER LIQUOR NEXT
WAR BY W. c. 7. U.
T~obaccoiess u. S. Aim of White Rib
boners; Great Propaganda
Started Already

4NCW L vi h.-fAAjCI a lWO 11UIl4O AA-
quiry conducted in this city, Chicago,
San Francisco and elsewhere to de-
termine what was said to be a cam
paign to bar the use of tobacco, now
that liquor has gone, the executive
board of the Association Opposed to
National Prohibition issued a state
ment here, charging that the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union was
backing a movement to have anti
nicotine laws enacted in every state
in the union.
w. c. T. U. will celebrate its fiftieth
anniversary five years hence, and
that organization is highly hopeful of
having congress submit a constitu-
tional amendment before March 20,
1924, its semi-centennial forbidding
the cultivation, sale, use or export OF
the weed for smoking or chewink pur,
poses, the statement charged.
The $1,00O,0 900 drive" begun last
March by the White r%ibboners, it is
alleged, has for its object the crush
ing out of demon nicotine, and to this
end, the anti-prohibitionists say, $780,
900 will be expended ostensibly on
child welfare" health and morali-
ty," Education and other propaganda
! methods by means of the churches
and public schools.
The Association Opposed to Nation
al Prohibition further charges the w.
C. T. u. with planning to finance its
campaign against tobacco without ap.
pealing directly for funds II naming
the purposes for which the money is
to be expended.
In support of this it asserts that al
ready Sin the guise of public school
recitation violate the sanctity of home
and filial devotion" fathers who use
tobaccot are portrayed as filthy and
unfit for childish caresses."
James Arthur Seavey, managing-di
rector of the association, in explain
ing the reason for the investigation.
said it was stared to clear up whether
"or not the same professional and
paid prohibitionists who foisted the
eighteenth amendment upon the nation
without a popular vote were behind
the tobacco crusade, despite their Gag
er denials."
The situation discloses, the situa
ton says. that a bill has been intro
duced In the Georgia Legislature to
prohibit the use of tobacco in any
form and in that measures have been
taken in the legislatures of other
southern and western states to put
a ban on cigarettes,
The a~nti-saloon league is also &C
cused of actively aiding the w G. 7
U. crusade and of having indorsed the
slogan: Nicotine Next"
DR.. P. Charles c. Green, of Phila
delphia, was said to have protested to
the public school authorities Of his
city for permitting he said, the ". C
T. u. to establish medal contests and
offer money awards to pupils for the
best essays on the "viciousness" oil
the tobacco habit.
In Evanston, H., where is located
rest cottages the national head
quarters of the w. C. T. U. former
home of Francis e. Willard, founder
Of the organization, and now the
home of Anna Adams Gordon, the
present president, thousands upon
thousands of copies of the pamphlet
Nicotine Next by Frederick w. Ro'
man, P. H. D., professor of economics
at Syracuse, filled one storage ROOM
which, it was said, was guarded as
carefully as anything
i But an intimate insider, it was stat
ed, was permitted to know that the
w. G. T, U. plans shortly to flood the
country with these pamphlets.
Meanwhile vast quantities of other
kinds of anti-tobaco literature are be.
ing distributed, it is asserted.