The crusading spirit im America, not satisfied with the havoc it has raised by its eighteenth success and ite dolightfgl joke of turning the mind of a nation to mania on one ubject, is getting restless. Tobacco the next squirming evil which Imay Tall prey to its lily white talons. 'The crusaders would make it unlawful for any person to make, import, purchase, postes, or' give away cigarettes or the materials for making cigarettes. Their dread intentions Teave lesser loop-holes than} the bootlegging game. Physicians [have taken up cudgels in Lady Nicotine's behalf and have assured! \veformers that smoking is no more harmful than eating potatoes. Either} lone in excess may be but if tobacco Jig to be prohibited om the, grounds that it is ruining the nation's health, tea, coffee, and chewing gum should Nalso be abolished. And if it is to be prohibited on the supposition that} ie contributes to the immorality of the youth of America, crusaders should start a campaign against motor-cars, cinemas, novels, silk stockings, pretty girls, and ce-educ tion, "In case everything fails the lerusading spirit' might ultimately attempt to abolish sex. What] America really needs is a grand and prolonged crusade to reform reform. ers.
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