| | | | It is a common thing for temperance lecturers to denounce alcohol on | | the strength of tobacco, that is, lecture with a cud in their mouths. | | Now this is mean. There should be honor among thieves. Don't laugh at | | and taunt your brother, wallowing there in the mud, while your own | | mouth is full of a thousand times filthier filth. Don't grow poetical | | on the "drunkard's aspen hand," when your own poisoned nerves will | | quiver worse than his if you should abstain from your quid three | | hours. You have yet to learn that tobacco produces delirium tremens, | | which you so much love to picture to the drunkard, with all the | | glowing colors of pandemonium. | | | | Dr. Mussey says he was acquainted with a gentleman in Vermont who | | conscientiously abstained from all intoxicating drinks and yet died of | | delirium tremens. Dr. Lauren and many other medical writers speak of | | similar cases within their knowledge. Many of our best physicians | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 9 +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | concur the opinion in that many of the cases of delirium tremens | | imputed to alcohol are mostly due to the use of tobacco. | | | | You ought never listen to a self styled temperance-man who lectures a | | drinker, with his mouth full of tobacco juice. The drinker if he uses | | no tobacco is the most temperate man of the two. It is a gross insult | | to an audience to eject on them alcoholic vituperation and nicotianic | | expectoration at the same time. That audience should say; first go | | reform thy-self thou intemperate SLAVE of poison! | | | | We have no room for the introduction of proof of our assertions on the | | evils of tobacco. But if you wish to have an abundance of evidence | | that tobacco produces the diseases which we herein mention you will | | just please to consult Dr. Lizars, he will furnish you with cases and | | proof. Read Dr. Mussey's 'Essay on Tobacco,' published by the American | | Tract Society. And here let me ask all who have the good of humanity | | at heart, to place this lecture in the hands of every one of your | | tobacconized neighbors. The circulation of anti-tobacco and |