Show BOYS TOBACCO AND SALOONS I 1 according to the census report ol of colorado GO CO per cent of the boys over twelve years of age in that state us 2 tobacco presumably that 99 per cent celi of the tobacco using boys are cigarette I 1 smokers I 1 i no hope for cigarette boys there is but little hope for tha cigarette boy the cigarette boy has no real manhood or pride in himsel lf lie he has no regard tor for others and not one in hi a thousand ever makes a trustworthy man tile the boy wa who 0 o smokes cigarettes is either ashamed ot of himself among among ladies or decent company or else his bump of egotism or I 1 dont care for anybody auy boily Is so BO large that he is a nuisance to society and he is therefore not wanted A boy who will smoke cigarettes in the presence ot of his mother or his sister or his sweetheart is depraved ed in his nature and lie he Is a bigger stinkpot than roasting glue the mother or father ather f who will allow their boy to smoke cigarettes ought to be deprived of their offspring and they usually are in a year or two if 1 I their boy continues the habit A cigarette boy Is always a smarty he has watery eyes lie he is nervous petulant peevish and querulous lie he is a deceiver and he deceives himself more than anyone else the cigarette boy of today will be the saloon bum tomorrow the cigarette dealer is a hundred per cent meaner mala maa than the saloon keeper lie inveigler inveigles the youth in his meshes he BOWS the seed of lust debauchery bau chery appetite and habit and furnishes in after years the saloon customer prohibit the th cigarette dealer and put some backbone I 1 in n parents to take care of their boys here and now and drunkenness in the next generation will come to an end the over sentimental or foolish parents who think that their children are too good to mind or too good to do chores or work and the father and mother who think because their children are so BO much like the their r parents and are so good and so honest and have such old and well balanced heads beads on them they can run out nights and not acquire bad habits or get anto trouble will learn sooner or later that their children are no better belter than the common street gamin mrs thaw thought her soil eon harry was it of pittsburg and she allowed him to run wild ild we all know the result cigarette smoking was his first had bad habit an inveterate cigarette smoking boy Is a popinjay he lg Is a petty trifler trl fler and he Is not dependable in any calling his hl eyes are dim and watery his bis mouth Is an open sewer his lips usually protrude and are arc either slimy or drooling or nah lie he can be found ev after 9 or 10 in the morning jie be Is one of the platform I 1 orm or end seat scat hogs on the t et ct car he be can be seen in front of saloons saloon theatris theatres the atres tres on the street corners and his den or recuperating ling room Is in the he back of a cigar store or pool room or bowling alii he fie Is a critic on 00 ladles ades ran apparel and when he be Is loafing on n the ho he Is either rolling a cigarette giving wisa information or Is vulgarly and d ale its ay iy ty afy 0 rf y atoo oo 00 0 o u and girls who bo come under his leering gaze we do not believe that there was iver v a boy who commenced smoking cigarettes at the age of twelve years and continued the habit that ever became a prosperous and substantial man you cannot fight nature and win no person who commenced smoking at the age ot of twelve and continued the habit ever called his father and mother blessed utah has a smaller per of tobacco users than any other state the mormon church which composes compos ss 70 per cent 0 f our population is opposed to its use and no good mormon uses tile tho stuff the goody good in the eastern states who are so much concerned about utah and the mormons cormons Mor mons by slandering utah and her people better blow away the tobacco smoke and look at the condition of their own boys it if the prohibition people cannot stop four teen year old boys from using tobacco how b ow flo do they expect to prohibit pen men from drinking booze first take care bare of tho the boys a drunken man is hardly woi worth woith th the trouble utah independent |