Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — CIGARETTE WORST ARTICLE. [ARTICLE]

CIGARETTE WORST ARTICLE.

Edward Page Gaston of Chicago testified in London, July 3, before the select committee at the House of Lords on Juvenile smoking that the worst article America sent to Great Britain was the American cigerette. “It is worse,” he said “than Chicago tinned meat.” Mr. Gaston also warned British Legislatures against the attempts at bribery on the part of the American Tobacco Trust in order to balk unfriendly legislation. Earl Beauchamp, chairman of the committee, closely questioned Mr. Gaston regarding the effect of the American laws against the sale to minors and he stated that nearly one-fourth of the population of the United States now benefited through living under the anticigarette legislation.