Mighty Poor Smoking

A tobacco trust buys legislatures in many places, and the Planet questions the reasoning behind this because “you never can tell about a trust.”

Mighty Poor Smoking
It is claimed that the tobacco trust has been buying up legislatures in the east and elsewhere. This is mighty interesting, especially to smokers who would like to know what the tobacco trust might want with a bunch of green statesmen.
If they propose to grind them up and put them on the market mixed with a choice brand of cut plug to add flavor, the discriminating legislator want to know it. He may approve of roasting the legislature, but he will be hornswoggled and a few things like that if he wants to smoke them.
Of course the naughty trust may want them for an entirely different purpose. It may have some choice fifty cent cigars that used testing and also some special brands of legislation that it would like to have passed in response to what seems to be a great public sentiment. You never call tell about a trust.

“Mighty Poor Smoking,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/853.