:•_> TOBACCO. 



.sprung from tlie jmst, and \\\\\ develop l!ie future. Of wlnit 

 us(! Anieriea, with its population of 70,000,000, lias becni 

 to the world will Ito a (piestion for the future to sc.'ttlo. All 

 Ie,i,nslation looks to future good as well ns to present well-being. 

 We oidy ask statesmen to look carefully :it the facts, and do 

 what men should to arrest :in e\i] now ;;ssunn'ng proportit)ns so 

 vast that if not cheeked will iu time sink ours as low as tho 

 most degraded nations of the e!\ilh. 



Canon Farrar recently icmaiked (h:it a national sin was a 

 national jieril, fur he knew of nf) single instance in all history, 

 from its heginning, of any nation, conscious of its \ice, cling- 

 ing to its \ice, refusing to gi\(' \\\> its Aii-e, which had not in 

 the end perished of its vice, and this luxury is surely a national 

 sin. 



'rhi> only leiiislative remedy i'or theexil is a law iM'ohihiting, 

 not oidy the sale, l)ul the cultivation of Tobacco. It is nuich 

 (easier to suppress an e\il than to regulate it, for regulation 

 does not regulate, Itul prohilMtion does prohibit. 



Of course thert' are many sophistical arguments against the 

 right of prohiltiting Tobacco, simply liecaust? it will (lejtiivc! 

 man\ of a luxury and of an article on which a large profit is 

 made, for no article of trade, excepting intoxicating drink, 

 produces so laigt' a percentage of [)rotit as Tol)acco. Many, in 

 \ic,w of the atlmitted wrongs to individuals, and the burdens 

 and taxes upon the [lublic, will say that lo l)anish it will be to 

 banish i>eisonal Ijlierty. Now, liberty is detiuedas "the iiower 

 of doing whate\cr is not injurious to others; tho exercise of 

 our natural i-i<;hts, bounded oidy by the rights which assure to 

 others the enjoyment of their rights,' not the power to act 

 upon your own piCr.soiial convictions ^vitllout considering 

 the case and looking at it in its dill'erent [diascs. (Jan you 

 look uua[ipalled on tin- thousands of immortal beings that 

 it is daily hurrying to jierdition, on tlu! blighted, stunted people 

 of tho future with an intense hr-reditary crave, on the suliering 

 of the women, on the %vrongs and anguish of the children. 



