| Show THE BATTLE OF tift nth cigarettes THE BATTLE ot of the cigarettes continue 15 with tremendous slaughter the earth and even tile the empyrean are reeking with havoc the capital is shaken to its foundations the civilians are smoking their cigarettes in fit terror while snipers are bushing ambushing am one another from behind churches clubhouses club houses and office bu beddings bud dings even the more or ipas innocent cigar smokers have caught a glimpse glimp sla ot of doom and are quailing qu ailing on the right aniag ft ing the american legi legion on and the W C T U are engaging each other fiercely erdely ti throwing deadly cigarette papers and epithets clergymen are denouncing business men as cowards and business men are too proud to fight and all this has been caused by the little cigarette so fair without so black within one clergyman thi threatens Patens a new political party to tight fight along religious lines it if legislators continue to quote from religious books rade american legion employs a long set of resolutions to call the W C fr U what could be expressed in a single short and ugly word and all because the W C T U wd said that the red cross corrupted the morals of our youth tit in france by giving them cigarettes shades of 0 socrates and Dlo diogenes genes and no wonder cigarettes are called coffin nails no wonder they are considered injurious to our health and general welfare without wishing to add to the agitation we dare to express the opinion that some of those who dow denounce the cigarette as the root of all evil contributed to the funds that gave cigarettes to our so sol idera liders in ill france it is quite true that the american tobacco company fostered the funds and was helped by the newspapers the tha american tobacco company saw that it was good for the company and not lot bad for the boys apparently the boys are ara not asking tor for forgiveness or sympathy they look as husky as they did before they w beux euf to war to face the death deal ing cigarettes but some of them perhaps had their morals corrupted many of these would have had bad their morals corrupted had they remained at home and the cigarette would havel hava been least among corrupt ers the battle of the cigarettes was infested when thel house committee reported ported fe what virtually amounted to a substitute bill although formulated as an amended measure the original bill was frankly antl anti cigarette the new bill was pro cigarette in that it did not forbid the sale of cigarettes but licensed tobacco dealers and provided drastic and bs be it said in most cadies casies reasonable regulations tor for smokers As we gather the meaning of the measure it is designed to prevent advertising of tobacco smoking by minors and smoking by anybody in certain enclosed pubic places placer the defenders of the S southwick measure felt aggrieved that their plan to outlaw the cigarette did not meet with the approval of the commit committee teiei 4 they saw a 1 conspiracy to pass a law that would woul 1 I put an end to the fight against tite cigarette but that Is really an all advantage to the people it if we can call obtain a law that eliminates the of the cigarette and at the samo same time prevents constant warfare between cigarette i smokers and cigarette agitators we shall have rid ourselves of conditions that interfere with our peace of mind our social harmony and our prosperity there wilt will be no bootlegging under such a law and its will bo be comparatively tasy basy the rho southwick bill calls tor for a Peas ceaseless pless warfare it drives the cigarette into ambush and paves the way for constant guerilla fighting such a state of affairs of bourst has tit an attraction for a certain type of reformer it gives him a scope for his activities ile he can enjoy himself while making other people uncomfortable for table tile the substitute i measure may not be perfect its definition of enclosed public places where smoking is forbidden Is rather too limited it arg we were framing such a measure we would tiar bar smoking in powder factories gasoline stations and dance halls it is true that the issue of 0 personal sol liberty is involved in the tha anti cl GarItte movement but there Is no reason on oil that account to embroil the whole st state adv in a religious warfare after all there is not much inch danger that we shall lose any ot of our civil rights simply because cigarettes and are placed under a ban we ar are 0 quite sure that the people will say to themselves thus far shall thou go and no fai fait liter they will quickly close their ranks for unyielding instance Vs Istance is any aits nits attempt ampt is made by legislators or others to ta tale ke away any ally of those rights which americans consider fundamental the spirit of the people is well exemplified in the promptness with which the 1991 legislature slature passed tile the measure to prevent the teaching of religion in the public schools there was not enough opposition to it to to be audible the citizen |
