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of justice their conviction is next to impossible 

 because of perjury and lying. 



The cities are full of loiterers, idling their 

 lives away, cigar-in-mouth. Even the candi- 

 dates for the highest positions in the gift of 

 the people are pictured in the shameful pose 

 of cigar-in-mouth in the daily papers. Are the 

 enlightened nations of the earth rotten to the 

 core with tobacco? 



It is not from the ranks of the tobacco users 

 that our leading statesmen come. It is from 

 the pure air of the country, from the hearth 

 of the farmer where temperance, honesty, and 

 economy are practiced, in order that learning 

 may have fitting opportunity. These men too 

 often, when brought in contact with the social 

 mill, adopt the habits of the new environment, 

 forgetful of the fact that it was their freedom 

 from such grossness that fitted them for the 

 rank of leaders. Had these men the strength 

 of character to maintain their native purity, 

 what aid it would give to the social reformers, 

 who find the work of protecting the .young so 

 difficult! 



There was a time within the remembrance 

 of many — and I fancied the time had not yet 

 ceased — when men did not smoke in the com- 

 pany of women without asking permission. 

 Now, I have heard the mothers of young women 



