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It confirms the unexceptional truth of the maxim, " that 

 the love of money is the root of all evil." The advice 

 of the sordid father to his son is not confined to private 

 life, but extends to all ranks — the prince and the peasant 

 alike — and is found in every age and country. "Make 

 money, make money, my son, honestly if you can ; but 

 above all, he sure to make monei/, he the consequences 

 what they mayJ' Where the greater power of doing 

 mischief is VCTted, there is the greater need to demand 

 responsible action. The prostitution of a nation's morals 

 and health, for the sake of revenue, is an outrage to 

 humanity — a curse to the progress of civilization. It 

 is the destroying hane against which every philanthropic 

 observer is called upon to impress "on the powers that 

 be," that it is both their duty and interest to provide a 

 compulsory antidote, as all other temporizing measures 

 must fail. 



" In the year 1854, Paris chewed, snufied, and smoked 

 8,800,000 pounds of tobacco, for which it paid 17,725,263 

 francs. This poor justice must be done to the Parisians 

 and to the French in general, that few of them are 

 guilty of the peculiarly disgusting American form of 

 tobacco vice. The quantity of the weed masticated is 

 to that snufi"ed and smoked, as one to sixty-two, and has 

 not increased per annum since 1839. The habit of 

 taking snuff is on the decrease ; that of smoking, on the 

 contrary, has been of late years, and still is, in course 

 of wonderful development. Formerly it was deemed an 

 essentially vulgar practice, and was mainly confined to 

 the estaminets ; from them it spread to students' rooms 

 and artists' attics, then reached the clubs, at last invaded 

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