p. 189 | A Bill to Make Idiots

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 20, 1882

A Bill to Make Idiots.

DELEGATE Post, of Wyoming Territory, has introduced a bill in Congress which it is to be hoped will not be passed. It is called "a bill to reduce the internal revenue tax on cigarettes," but a more appropriate title would be, "a bill to make lunatics and idiots, and for other purposes,"—the "other purposes" being to fill up the cemeteries and make millionaires of the undertakers. Mr. Post must be an enemy of the human race. He could not if he tried, hit upon a more certain method of killing off a large portion of the rising generation, and of making idiots of the one that is to follow it. The cigarette annually kills thousands and thousands of children and young men, and those whom it does not destroy physically, it mentally ruins. The tax on it should be increased, not reduced. It would be well to place it so high as to put these poisonous packages beyond the reach of the small boy.—N. Y. Herald.