Inexcusable Rudeness by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 30, 1882

Inexcusable Rudeness.

By Editor

A GREAT number of smokers seem to have lost sight of politeness! Their smoking makes them rude. Why should a smoker blow his smoke in my face, or allow the dust of his weed to get in my eyes. Why should he think it not indecent to frequently expectorate in my presence? I have as much right to scatter fine strong pepper and half blind the passers-by or my companions in a railway carriage. I might answer it pleased me, and they must put up with it. Men have no more right to smoke in public than I have to scatter pepper. Our pleasures ought not to be at the expense of another; all public smokers, however, break this law, and give great offense to that part of the public who hate the most distant fumes of tobacco.—London Freemen.

A FEW days ago, Judge Woodruff, in sentencing a young man for theft, said:—

"It is in evidence that when you are sober you are a peaceable, law-abiding citizen; you have repeatedly tried to overcome that appetite for strong drink, which is your greatest enemy. The sentence of the court is that you be confined in the State Prison at Trenton for two years. In fixing the term, we have been guided by the belief that, in that time, under the prohibition of prison discipline, you can master your appetite and come out a reformed man."

Think of the State licensing rum shops, and then having to send her ruined citizens to State Prison, that being the only place where prohibition prevails, and consequently the only place where her drunken sons may be safe. "It conduces to the public good."—Paterson Journal.

IT is claimed that the Chinese use of opium is worse than the American's use of tobacco; but there are two sides to that question. When a Chinaman uses opium, he goes into a "den," and stays there until he has had his smoke out. No one but himself is contaminated by it. But the American is puffing his tobacco in everybody's face. He is not willing to be confined to a tobacco den. The Chinese opium habit has its advantages—so far.—Sel.