Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1885 — A Chance for an Argument. [ARTICLE]

A Chance for an Argument.

“Tobacco as well as whisky, my ■dear friend, is an evil,” remarked a temperance advocate to a lover of the weed. “Do you imagine that providence, in its bountiful goodness, supplies the warm eartli, the gentle rain, a/nd the bright sun to propagate this pernicious and wicked plant?” “I imagine it does,” replied the tobacco adherent, “or we wouldn’t have such enormous crops of it.”— New York Sun.