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suggested that may be I was not in touch or 

 up to date in regard to all new inventions, 

 discoveries, etc., all the while coming out. 

 And let me also mention right here that Dr. 

 Wiley said the American Medical Associa- 

 tion (from whom I have so often quoted in 

 exposing harmful so-called " medicines ") is 

 the best and wisest authority in our land. 

 Here is what the Ford people say of Dr. 

 Wiley : 



When Dr. Harvey W. Wiley was chief of the 

 Federal Bureau of Chemistry at Washington he had 

 impure food and drug manufacturers on the run all 

 the time. He is unquestionably the leading health 

 and food authority in the United States to-day. 

 Would you know his opinion of the cigarette ? 



Here is what Dr. Wiley says of cigarettes : 



" I commend Mr. Ford, Mr. Edison, and all people 

 who join them in efforts to curtail or restrict, olilit- 

 erate, or destroy the pernicious habit of cigarette- 

 smoking. The use of cigarettes is making inroads 

 on the strength of the nerves of all who smoke them, 

 especially boys of tender years, or women who smoke 

 them because they think that the practice is smart. 

 The effect may not be so bad on people of more 

 mature years ; but not in any case, no matter how 

 old a man or woman, is smoking helpful. Besides 

 constituting a nuisance, the financial strain connect- 

 ed with use of tobaco stands between millions of 

 people and home comforts." 



Below are some more from the best 

 authorities of the present age. ' 



CONNIE MACK SPEAKS. 



The boy who does not know of Connie Mack is 

 not old enough to read the newspapers and take an 

 interest in baseball. As leader of the Philadelphia 

 Athletics, Connie Mack takes rank as one of the 

 greatest generals baseball has ever known. He reads 

 men and boys as an ordinary person reads a book. 

 He contributes to the Scientific Temperance Journal 

 this characteristically clear statement: 



" It is my candid opinion, and I have watched 

 very closely the last twelve years or more, that boys 

 at the age of ten to fifteen who have continued smok- 

 ing cigarettes do not as a rule amount to any thing. 

 They are unfitted in every way for any kind of work 

 where brains are needed. No boy or man can ex- 

 pect to succeed in this world to a high position and 

 continue the use of cigarettes." 



CIGARETTE IS ONE OF THE WORST HABITS. 



Hon. Benjamin B. Lindsay is judge of the Juve- 

 nile Court in Denver, Colorado, where are handled 

 the cases of boys and girls who have gone wrong. 

 He is often referred to as " the golden-rule judge " 

 because of his kindness, and the deep interest he 

 takes in boys and girls. In telling " What I Have 

 Seen of Cigarettes," Judge Lindsay says in part: 



" One of the very worst habits of boyhood is the 

 cigarette habit. This has long been recognized by 

 all the judges of the courts who deal with young 

 criminals, and especially by judges of police courts, 

 before whom pass thousands of men every year who 

 are addicted to intemperate habits. These judges 

 know that in nearly every case the drunken sots who 

 appear before them, a disgrace to their parents, them- 

 selves, and the State, began as boys smoking cigar- 

 ettes. One bad habit led to another. The nicotine 

 and poison in the cigarette created an appetite for 

 alcoholic drink. The cigarette habit not only had 

 a grip upon them in boyhood, but it invited all the 

 other demons of habit to come in and add to the 

 degradation that tlie cigarette began." 



HUDSON MAXIM ON THE CIOAEETTK. 



Hudson Maxim has won world renown as the in- 

 ventor of high explosives for use in battleship guns 

 and torpedoes and for various other purposes. He 

 comes out squarely against the cigarette in this 

 fashion: 



" The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about 

 the head of the g:rowing lad holds his brain in an 

 iron grip which prevents it from growing and his 

 mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe 

 does the foot of the Chinese girl. 



" In the terrible struggle for survival against the 

 deadly cigarette smoke, development and growtli are 

 sacrificed by nature, which in the fight for very life 

 itself must yield xip every vital luxury such as 

 healthy body growth and growth of brain and mind. 



" If all boys could be made to know that with every 

 breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and 

 exhale manhood ; that they are tapping their arteries 

 us surely and letting their life's blood out as truly as 

 though their veins and arteries were severed, and 

 tliat the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals, 

 and fools — not men — it ought to deter them some. 

 The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper deg- 

 radation and enslavement than the ball and chain." 



In closing let me call attention to the self- 

 evident fact that the Tobacco Co., like the 

 brewers and distillers, has no object in life, 

 no motive for living, other than to " make 

 vioney, more money," while our good men 

 and women are, with scarcely a thought of 

 self, giving their lives for the uplifting of 

 humanity, especially our growing boys and 

 girls. 



" RENDERS INFERIOR SERVICE.''^ 



That is what the great railroad company, 

 the Baltimore and Ohio, says of its em- 

 ployes who use tobacco while at work. See 

 below, taken from Medina Gazette: 



The B. & O. R. R. Co. has placed the use of 

 tobacco by station employes and others who come in 

 contact with the public under ban during working 

 hours. The railroad company does not seek to re- 

 strict the use of tobacco by its employes when off 

 duty. But it is believed by the management that a 

 man using tobacco while at work renders inferior 

 service, to say the least ; and aside from the time 

 lost in " lighting up " there is a certain class of 

 jieople to whom exhaled tobacco smoke is objection- 

 able. 



Another great railway eomj^any has said : 

 " No employe need expect promotion who 

 uses tobacco while at work." 



" TAGGING THE SOULS OF MEN FOR PERDI- 

 TION. '' 



The Bradentown Evening Journal says: 



Dispatches announce the fact that a Columbus, 

 Ohio, brewery, a twelve-million-dollar corporation, 

 went into the hands of receivers of the Federal 

 Court. The dispatch carried the laconic statement: 

 " The decreased beer demand and the adverse legis- 

 lation in many dry States is given as the cause." 



It scarcely would be becoming in citizens who 

 manifest a pride in the industrial development of 

 the country to rejoice in the failure of an enterprise 

 of large proportions which is engaged in its legiti- 

 mate work of tagging the souls of men for perdition; 

 but those who look hopefully forward to the time 

 when this shall be a saloonless nation cannot but 

 note with satisfaction that the liquor business is 

 growing less alluring year by year. 



