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Show B THAT TOBACCO BONDAGE IBB IT is becoming more and more IBB evident that there should he an in- BBB crease of acitation against that mar- HBS velouslv crent tobacco habit and to- DHj bacco traffic of this country. It has HHB lonf been conceded that tobacco usin,r HBl in an obnoxious and an injurious HBl practice. Like the liquor habit reus IBB ons and excuses have been sought for BBB its tlM Bnt evenr strenuous effort HBI in that iM faction has met with sip-tr-l HHfl failure until todnv the habit mav HHB justly be recarded as unworthy of IBM even an attempted d(-fense. No doubt HB8 the force of habit in the use of tokir HH8 co has in manv cases become wollnie-h HHB irresistible. Many who are not so bold HB8. as to undertake any defense of it have IBB nevertheless become slaves to it and HBfl would welcome any means that might HHfl come to the help of their wills and HHfl enable them to obtain a lone: sought HBS conquest of their insiduous and art HHfl ful enemy. But there is a duty rent- HBfl ing upon the citizenshin of our count rv in seeing that agitation is not onlv mait'ta'n H imt Hv incraat throurh which information is dissem- inated provini' eonclaalvely both the harmfnlneis of the habit and the tr :C flc. The internal ri'venue from the HBB traffic amounting in 1!M5 to nearly BV $80,000,000 is made to appear as Indie- BBB pensable that no revenue Itlbetltute BBB can be found for it. Especially in BBB times of war or at the prospect of BBB war those millions of internal rare BBB nue from the tobacco bualneaa wieldi BBM a commanding influence. Anil thous- BJfll ands there aie too who will undertake BBB no defense of tobacco either when BBV seen in a traffic or in a habit, BBhj are silent when the boj h BBV used to liirhten taxes or to meet a t BBV posed pressing military naeeeeity. It BBB ia apparent that a quickening of the BBB public conscience must come before BBB we can look for any neat strides t BBBJ this lone-needed reform. And may BBB that come soon. |