Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — For An Anti-Spitting Ordinance. [ARTICLE]

For An Anti-Spitting Ordinance.

A great many oitiee and towns have passed ordinances forbidding spitting on the sidewalks, and snob an ordinanoe has been drawu up and is ready to be introduced before the city cQunoil of Rensselaer. That theroTSTTrerying and also a hawking need of such a law here, only a walk up end down the walks, in our business district especially, will furnish sufficient evidence. Every place onr handsome cement walks are befouled and discolored bygreat gobs and eqnirts of tobacco juice. In places where our gentlemen) otleasure and “visitiDg etatemen” most do congregate, the deposit of tobacco juioe reaches the magnitude of a lava stream; whioh flows across the walks and flaaiiy. reluctantly, empties into the gut ters. Though much of it is swept up and oarried away on the trailing skirts of our women folks In truth, spitting on side walks, especially of tobaoqajoioe, is an out rageously dirty, filthy, disgusting and dangerous practice, and if tobacoo users will not be decent enough and respect the rights of others enough, to abstain from it voluntarily, they ought to be compelled to by a stringent ordinance. rigidly aud impartially enforced. And the women, as the greates sufferers from this filthiness ought to interest themselves in having suoh an ordinanoe adopted.