TOBACCO INDICTED AND TRIED. 



INDICTMENT. 



It is a formidable indictment that has been 

 brought against tobacco, but I have sought to sus- 

 tain every point by evidence from trustworthy wit- 

 nesses, many of them entirely outside of any reform 

 movement. 



It has been shown what a fearful expenditure of 

 time and money is involved in the use of this nar- 

 cotic ; what an interminable train of physical and 

 intellectual evils follows in its path ; how it some- 

 times destroys the liner sentiments and lowers the 

 whole tone of a man's character, rendering him 

 inconsiderate, selfish, and discourteous ; how it 

 tends to unman and annualize, if not to brutalize. 



But worse than this is the deep injury it inflicts 

 on the moral and spiritual nature, planting in the 

 system an appetite which not only renders its vic- 

 tim obtuse in his nicer perceptions, but which 

 deadens his conscience, cuts the sinews of his will, 

 and bears him irresistibly onward in a course of 

 vicious indulgence, over-riding reason, charity, 

 love for wife and children, and whatever else would 



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