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Show PRESIDENT SMITH'S ADDRESS. H In a broad and gonoral way I am for tho H anti-tobacco doctrino promulgated by President H Joseph F. Smith at tho opening of tho October H conference. And I am unprejudiced, because I H uso tho wood. Ono can be protty pationt with H tho various weaknesses of human nature, but" H horo is a habit which God novor planted in any H human being. It is unnatural for a man to B chow or smoko tobacco. H No habit is acquired at such oxponso of pain H and discomfort, or against so positivo and em- ' phatio an opposition of nature Tho man who H smokes can romombor when ho began self- H administration of nicotine poison, and ho can 9 romombor no other convulsion of his frame I whioh oquallod that following his first cigar. ' H The deatlu sipkngfrf, the-battle of normally cl6an H ' tissues agamsU Lho I'inlcanmiLy; of Him wood, H whether smoked or chowod, surpasses any oilier H illness known lo man. Seasickness is a liorrpr. H But it is a dream of Paradise and the Pori us H compared with nicotine poison for the beginner. H Ptomaine poison hurts, bul it is colic compared H to convulsions. Thero Is no protest of the H healthy body possibly 'approaching the physical H warning against tobflQOO. H And it! tho user 'of tobacco the confirmed Hj slave today, would apply to any useful endeavor H the resolution, the persistence, the indiilorcuco H to suffering, the courage, tho power of will, Iho H saonflce of comfort which ho has devoted to Hj acquiring the tobacco, habit, ho would have H won though the winning meant fame or for- H tune, love or loisurol H President Smith is Tnjht. Smoking is foolish. H There is' not 'One word to bo said m sanity lo H defend it. Chewing tobacco is beyond all ox- Hh pression filthy. It is vile, vicious, self-con- Hl taniinalingj oifonsivo lo companions and re- KH pulsiWKo the community at largo. H 'And while neither I16 or I will make an end H of"lrHC custom, it Is fair lo say he lold the H truth," and it is a thing for patriotic mon lo Hj applaud, because his word in lliat meeting will H save sdmc men from the one habit which has HI nothing to do'fond it and every consideration of HE cleanliness lo oppose. |