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of tobacco does no good permanently, either to mind or 

 body. — but, on the contrary, a great amount of evil, — it 

 drains the purse, empties the larder and wardrobe, pauper- 

 izes the home of comforts and pleasures and luxuries 

 which are innocent, to feed one monstrous appetite, which 

 is deadly in its effects. The national debt of the United 

 States could be swept away in four years by turning upon 

 it this gulf-stream of criminal self-indulgence and need- 

 less luxury. The money expended for tobacco in the 

 United States would discharge all the expenses of the 

 religious and educational institutions. While the latter 

 are engaged in building up the life of man and the 

 national character, the former is sapping both with an 

 unfailing drain. Do we wonder that children go ragged, 

 houses unpainted, windows broken, animals left to shift 

 for themselves in the winter's cold, shops bankrupt, farms 

 and dwellings mortgaged, tramps and paupers swelling 

 the list in this fair and prosperous land of ours? It is 

 due, in no small part, to the tremendous wastes which we 

 tolerate, and even excuse, as if they were the necessities 

 and blessings of life, instead of its cancers — the waste by 

 tobacco, the waste by alcohol, the waste by gambling, the 

 waste by fire, the waste by war, by the social evil, by crime 

 and ignorance. 



Indict7ne7tt Three. 



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The use of tobacco leads directly to drinking spiritu- 

 ous liquors. Tobacco is prime minister to alcohol. The 

 pipe is first-cousin to the mug. To take away the cup 

 which is in a man's right hand, while he still holds his 

 cigar in his left hand, is to leave the work of reform half- 

 done. Chewing or smoking necessitates salivation ; saHva- 



