OCTOBER 15. 1912 



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"j)utting' the bottle to our iieiglibois' lips." 

 To show you how the great wide world 

 seems to be moving forward in the lines 1 

 have indicated, I submit below a mass of 

 evidence gathered from periodicals scat- 

 tered all over our nation: 



CREATING A DEMAND FOR CIGARETTES IN 

 CHINA. 



See the following, clipped from the 



Chicago Advance: 



The Anti-cigarette League and other anti-tobacco 

 movements which have done so much to put cigar- 

 ettes out of the reach of young Americans will 

 now have a chance to work on the Chinese if they 

 care to invade that country. Opium, for centuries 

 the curse of the Chinese empire, has given way 

 before the insidious American cigarette, while in 

 America the cigarette is leading to a more general 

 use of opium, according to Professor Albert Schnei- 

 der, in charge of the United States Bureau of 

 Chemistry at San Francisco. Following the cam- 

 paign against opium in China, the "tobacco trust," 

 through its American and European branches, sent 

 an army of men into the empire and distributed 

 free more than $5,000,000 worth of cigarettes. Pro- 

 fessor Schneider says boys and girls in China, many 

 little more than able to walk without assistance, 

 are confirmed cigarette "fiends." Professor Schnei- 

 der said he had been told opium was put into the 

 cigarettes now being sold in China. 



Just think of it, friends ! China has 

 lately been bending every energy to banish 

 opium, and wonderful things have been 

 accomjDlished ; but right in this very action, 

 when China is struggling to get out of 

 darkness and into the light of the present 

 age, this huge octopus, this same "to- 

 bacco trust," proposes to spend five 

 millions of dollars for cigarettes to be 

 given away to children in order to create 

 an appetite and enable the great tobacco 

 comi3any to make more money — money, 

 just money. That is all they are living 

 for. Shall not the whole wide world rise 

 up in defense of the Chinese children? 



SHALL WE TEACH OUR BOYS ON THE FARM 

 HOW TO GROW TOBACCO? 



Just now this question seems to be up 

 for consideration by the agricultural peri- 

 odicals of our land. Shall these periodicals 

 publish directions for growing a crop of 

 tobacco, without a protest or even a sug- 

 gestion as to its ultimate effect? Below is 

 a clipping from the periodical called The 

 Farmer's Wife, which seems to touch the 

 spot: 



A WOMAN' TOBACCO GROWER. 



Commercial bulletins report a Kentucky woman 

 disposing of a crop of 3000 to 4000 pounds of to- 

 bacco which she raised on her farm. Perhaps in 

 dollars and cents this was a good paying crop, 

 but we wonder if this woman has a husband who 

 "smokes from morning till night," and whose chil- 

 dren have inherited the taste for it until ordinary 

 tobacco, "like father uses," does not satisfy the 

 craving, and other strong and more harmful nar- 

 cotics are resorted to, perhaps at first on the sly, 

 but ultimately in the broad open. 



Here is another clipping from that same 

 paper : 



A YANKEE QUESTION. 



The alarming increase of infantile paralysis has 

 put the whole world on its guard in the work 

 of prevention. In some cities restrictions have 

 been placed on the attendance of school, church, 

 and public libraries in order to guard against the 

 development of new cases, on the ground that 

 400 children liave died from this disease in the 

 United States within the last year. 



Pour thousand children die of alcoholic diseases 

 in this country each year, but that business is not 

 quarantined. It is licensed. The very powers that 

 would guard the lives of 400 children so sacredly 

 will sacrifice the lives of 4000 without a qualm of 

 conscience. Why ? Perhaps every reader has his 

 own answer on this subject. 



Yes, indeed, why make such an ado 

 about 400 children, and continue to keep 

 mum in regard to 4000 others condemned 

 to imbecility or a cripi^led condition for 

 life, etc.? Here is something worse than 

 death in babyhood. 



Here is one more clipping from that 

 same issue of The Farmer's Wife: 



THE chinamen's OPINION. 



"Alcoholic drinks which are now being introduced 

 into China are called by the Chinese newspapers 

 'new Jesus poison' or the 'German poison' to dis- 

 tinguish them from the English poison, opium." 



To say the least, that is not the creditable repu- 

 tation which the tjnited States, posing as a mis- 

 sionary country to nearly every foreign land, should 

 crave. Where and what is the power that can 

 call a halt on federal permission to send shii>- 

 loads of American merchandise, oftentimes out- 

 weighing in poison what they contain in life- 

 uplifting principles, to foreign shores? 



Poor heathen China! that is, we have 

 have been in the habit of calling them 

 that. But is it any Avonder that they should 

 strike on to that suggestive title, "the new 

 Jesus poison"? Just think of it! Shiploads 

 of alcoholic drinks, with now and then a 

 missionary, to uplift and Christianize 400 

 millions of Chinese ! 



THE GOVERNORS OF OUR DIFFERENT STATES 

 SHALL THEY BE WET OR DRY? 



Some of you may suggest a Governor 

 who stands neutral. My friends, it seems 

 to be apparent just now, even if it has 

 not been apparent heretofore, that there is 

 no neutral ground on the wet and dry 

 question. "He that is not with me is 

 against me" comes in with wonderful per- 

 tinence right here. In a recent issue of 

 the Union Signal there were letters or ex- 

 tracts from speeches from fifteen or twen- 

 ty Governors of that many States, who 

 come out so strong and clear that there is 

 no misunderstanding or evasion.* Here is 

 what our good friend Ex-governor Frank 

 Hanley has to say about it. I clip it 

 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



"I urge you to vote for no man for governor of 

 Ohio this fall unless he is pledged to enmity to 

 the saloon." 



Such was the gist of the message delivered by 



* By the way, it is worth while to read the 

 "honor roll" of the States that have or have had 

 such Governors. They are as follows: Maine, Kan- 

 sas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, South Dakota, Mis- 

 sissippi, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, Wash- 

 ington, Utah, Arkansas, and Michigan. 



