30 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SECOND DAY— MORNING SESSION. 



Chairman — It is now past our time for opening and so we will come 

 to order, but before proceeding with the regular program, we will give 

 a few moments to something not on our regular program. We have 

 here with us, Miss Lucy Page Gaston, Supt. and Founder of the Anti- 

 Cigarette League of America, with headquarters at Chicago. She 

 wishes to say a few words in reference to her work, and particularly 

 the bill now before the Michigan Legislature, which she is trying to have 

 put through. 



Miss Gaston — Last night at the Land Show I engaged the pen with 

 which the Governor of our State will sign the Anti-Cigarette Bill, which 

 will put the cigarette out of commission in Michigan. Perhaps this is 

 faith, but I believe it is going to be done this present session of the 

 Legislature and I feel that this fine body of Horticulturists of Michigan 

 will contribute largely to the success of that effort. I really know of 

 no greater good fortune that can come to this effort to protect the youth 

 of this great State of Michigan, than to have the earnest, hearty and 

 clean-lived men and women who are connected with this organization 

 in line to help promote it. 



Michigan has long been the battlefield in this fight against the cigar- 

 ette. The Cigarette-Jack from Detroit appears at Lansing and undoes 

 the good work that the good people of the State want done, and the 

 bill that was passed by the legislature was one that suited the Tobacco 

 Trust but did not suit the Anti-Cigarette League. Judge Higby, the 

 Hen Linsay of Michigan, right here in Grand Rapids, Judge of the 

 Juvenile court, has taken the Chairmanship for this State and is lead- 

 ing the fight, and we want you people to line up and do what you can 

 for the bill. 



You people are troubled with pests. When a pest appears, you un- 

 dertake the work of extermination. What is needed in Michigan is 

 a war of extermination on the cigarette. Eleven states have passed 

 absolutely prohibitory laws making an out-law of the cigarette, and 

 cigarette papers, and that is what we want you to do here. 



Imagine Ann Arbor without cigarettes! These cigarette-soaked aver- 

 age brains that you are trying to educate in our state institutions of 

 higher learning are not worth the powder to blow them up in a good 

 many cases. It seems to me that all substantial men and women should 

 give this effort their most hearty support, and I will leave you now 

 with the full assurance in my own mind that we can rely on you to do 

 all you can for the good cause. 



