Tobacco a Tax on the Soil by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 12.

Tobacco a Tax on the Soil

By Editor

A LEADING daily paper says: "The tax on tobacco is a discriminating one against a particular branch of agricultural production, and might better be removed or made merely nominal." Tobacco itself is a very heavy tax upon the soil which produces it, as also upon the victims of its use and their offspring, and ought therefore to be assessed heavy damages.