30 Tin-] TOliACCO NUlSANCl'l 



wisli tliiit yon mark, learn and iuwanlly di,i,^c.st it. tliafc yon 

 oxuniino, (.•()iiii)ai(! and {.lit it to the test, and tliat your con- 

 clusions may lie intclligontly arrived at. Jf you do iliis I will 

 1)0 port'cctly satistiiid, and the result will bo all that I desire. 



And hero, allow me to ol»sorve that reform is the order of 

 the day. The [)uldie mintl is profoundly exercised over cus- 

 toms and usigi.'s that have eomo down to us from earli(!r times, 

 the right and projjriety of which had never been (jucstioned, 

 which good people indulged in and defended, Ijut which are 

 now believed to be wrong and injurious. 'J'he public coii- 

 soienco has been aroused, and the work of reformation will (to 

 on until every wrong practice has been discontinued and every 

 evil habit abandoned, and the good, the pure and the beautiful 

 in human character shall ha\e become univer.sal. 



Such being the case, it may be to you somewluit surprising 

 that the use of Tobacco has not awakened mure attention, and 

 its injurious inlluence u[K)n health and morals been more gen- 

 erally referred to. Pi'rhaps the leason for this is that si»ecial 

 thought has been given to the Demon Drink, and the efforts of 

 refornu'rs have been concentrated to the suppr(!ssion of <iiat 

 giant evil, IJut as the temperance movement v.as not a suc- 

 cess until its adxocates adojited total abstinence principles, it is 

 becoming more and more obvious to all that " the axe must 

 be laid at the root of the tree," and not only must the evil itself 

 be gra-ppled with, but also all that tends in that direction. 

 And hence ere anyone can bo safe there must bo a giving uj) of 

 all unnecessary and unnatural indulgences and the abstaining 

 "from lleshly lusts that war against the soul." 



Perhaps you would like to know something of the History of 

 this wonderful weed. Whether it had an Asiatic or an Ameri- 

 can origin is still an unsettled (juestion, but this much is known, 

 that when Columbus discovered the New World he found the 

 habit of smoking a connaon one among the natives, and there 

 is reason to believe it had been e(|uallv common arnonir the 

 Canadian Indians from a very reniote period. With them it 



