Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-02-06
MISSOURI, 1879
10 make any detailed statement Of
sach work by them, a part of its semi
annual or any other renort-

1our committee, however, would
neg leave 70 recommend, that special
commlttee be raised, charged with the
grateIni duty, to investigate and re-
port TO your Union in detail and fully
such special and independent work
for, together with their results to
your Union and its general objects
during the past year, and that when
suchrepcrt shall come in, that your
Secretary be requested to record the
same in therecords OF your Union,
and thus bake all its facts and de-
tails a pa& of its written history.
Yourscfmmittee Is most happy for
an occaspn to publicly commned all
the officefs of your Union for their
faitbfuln&es in the performance of
tIeit resi- aectiye official duties during
the ont;r4 term, none of your officers
hiyRg, II singiesiastanee been alb
senSfrom his chair at aay.4-Hegular
meeting, except under compulsion of
sickness, or business engagements
out Of the city, on accession of your
meeting, while your Secretary, as
your records disclose, has failed but
oncein al entire year to fill his chair.
And justice demands that your COM,
mittee improve further this occasion
to return the thanks of each of its
members, to all your officers for their
sympathy with your committee in all
Its Efforts to advance your cause and
work, as well as their unwearied and
constant efforts, both in your public
meetings and meetings of your COM
mittee, to aid it In the discharge of
its delicate and important duties.
Your committee deem it but justice
to its members to state, that in their
common Judgment, intemperance and
its consequent and terrible evils which
ente' into, embarrass, Cypress, per-
vert, and even destroy every rela-
latim of life, personal, domestic,
social, financial, political, judicial
and religious have been brought about
intensified, chrystalized, made threat
ening and largely destructive, by a
long continued, perverted and infer
nal system of education.
IL this school of want and imbe-
cilit, of shame and infamy, Of vice
andsin, of brutality and crime, of
premature death and woe, during
the centuries past, education in most
instances has commenced with the
infant in its mothers arms, has been
continued in nursery, dining room
anC parlor, assisted by the instruc-
tiol and example of father and
moher, the silence, if not worse, OF
thefamily physician and pastor en-
phsizing the work, characterized and
ma le fashionable by the prccept and
exNple of lawyer and merchant and
jude, statesman and senator, and
meanwhile made seductive and charm
ingby the winning smiles of beauti-
fnl women, and alluring, by pen OF
poe and the pencil of the painter,
and over all has been thrown the
see and charm of music, so that all
| tho young :tad lair and generous,
whose education in this school did
mo- commence earlier, might be
dawn into this unholy and unnatural
University, the fruits of whose teach
iRs and influences are, and can be,
bit death and unmeasured and i'm
measurable woes. Indeed, your COM
nlttee feel confident, that no human
bling ever has or ever will become
dunken, unless made such by the in
stuction and education in such a
Ehool and under one or more Of its
educational instrumentalities
So, understanding the causes of
htemperance and the foundation upon
rhich its temple of human skulls and
hearts has been erected, your com.
nittee and each member thereof hav-
hg given his best thought to a solu-
ton of the mighty problem, how
slall the unseemly temple be torn
Gown and removed, and in its stead
hared temple of living hearts, strong
nanly, human bodies, vitalized by
fure thought and accurate judgments,
has been compelled and impelled to
the conclusion, that the change aad
nsults desired can only be accom-
plished by force of an educational
system, operating vigorously in a
opposite direction from the
one suggested rs the cause of intem-
perahce.
In the judgment of your commit
tee, then.to redeem the fallen-to re-
claim the drunkard, to save the youth
rom becoming Incorporate, to make
! generation of sober, healthy, moral
md intelligent men and womsn,is and
must be, a work of education, abso-
ntely and only a work of education,
md in which work all known and
.f1icient educational implements,
gents and instrumentalities must be |
Utilized and put into prompt, vigorous
md harmonious activity and opera
ion. AS in the school of the drunk
nd, so in our school of temperance,
ducation mast commence where and
vhen, or earlier, )it commences in the
,ther with the infant in arms, must
e actively and kindly cared for
vard, in nursery and dining room
nd parlor, the father and mother,
9th in precept and example, aided
y physician and pastor-further
in the common school,
ne seminary, the college, on the
arm, on the ocean, in the shop or
flee, at the bar, upon the bench,
/ legislative hall and senate cham
er, in the pulpit and through the
ublic press. If we would redeem
he nation, the state, the city, from
le pandora box of evils existing in,
r the world of woe, coming from
we must educate
dueate!! Educate!il
This education is and must be NOR
!, social, intellectual. Young and ,
d must be made to understand, that !
cannot exist except in /,
olation of every law of the human
cart, to the perversion Of every gen.
'ous impulse, the burning out of
7ery natural and holy affection and
piration of the human soul-in I
lort, that intemperance is a moral
licide to its victim. Then, again, |
at intelnperance cannot exist, but l