200 TOBACCO. 



It is the testimony of Jerry McAuley, who has 

 rescued multitudes from drunkenness, that it is 

 extremely rare to rind a reformed man that con- 

 tinues a slave to tobacco who does not fall back 

 into the gutter. This fact is so patent that it is 

 coming: more and more to be taken for granted 

 that the converts in his mission, when giving up 

 drink, will also give up the weed. The case is 

 related of one who, being persuaded to smoke a 

 single cigar, relapsed into drunkenness. 



Says Dr. Stephenson : f * The use of tobacco is 

 one great leading-step towards intemperance. But 

 it is a lamentable fact that very many who stand 

 the most prominent in the temperance reform are 

 grossly intemperate in the use of tobacco." 



A noted temperance-worker in Illinois, who was 

 a votary of the weed, was induced by a Methodist 

 clergyman to sign a pledge of total abstinence. 

 But the man who waxed so eloquent in urging 

 inebriates to forswear the demon of drink found 

 himself enslaved to as remorseless a tyrant, and 

 broke his pledge again and again. 



George Trask writes: "I have known a tem- 

 perance lecturer of great distinction positively 

 refuse to lecture till he had been furnished with a 

 pipe of tobacco to screw his nerves up to the point 

 of eloquence." 



So enslaved do these victims become that, in 

 spite of all remonstrance, of all propriety, they 

 will smoke, not only in parlors and in halls, but, 

 strangest of all, in temperance meetings. Indeed, 



