Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1915 — Hopes. [ARTICLE]

Hopes.

Qne reason we have so much poverty is because one-half of our Wages, goes tor tobacco, whiskey, tea, coffee' and other “dopes." T:.e stronger “dopes,” namely, morphine, opium, cocaine, choral, etc., absorb , norm oils sums annually and contribute i heir share to the high cost of living, tb weakness, inefficiency and poverty. We practical (?) Americans spend $r,00,000,000 annually for drugs, $1,000,000,000 annually 'or alcohol -and $350,000,000 for nicotine (tobacco). It is the drug nicotine that makes the tobacco so popular. It seems there Is a chance to cut down very materially the high r P s t of living and at the same time lessen disease, increase efficiency and augment happiness. Xinty-five per cent of paupers and eighty-six per cent of the very poor use tobacco, ■ Whiskey and other dopes. Dope taking is weakness, so is poverty. Strong "ten nmk > oportunity. seek education arid bring things about. Of all cri ininals one hundred per cent have hud habits, .Ninety-five per* cent use tobacco, most of them excessively; one hundred per cent use alcohol, more or less; fifty to sixty per cent use drugs, namely: Morphine, cocaine, bromide's, etc., and over nine-ty-five per cent are either slightly or grossly perverted sexually, and severity-five per cent are morons. Criminality is not hereditary, but instable brain matter with weak will and moral obtundity are hereditary. J. N. HURTY, State Health Commissioner.

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