The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-01
RADICAL TEMPERANCE REFoRn,

mfs lda FOX Leggets lecture on Temperauea
~ Masonic Hall, New York. deserved yerv nnueh
Oet1er nearing than 1t received She stepped ont
SIDE OF the beaten track OF the average TemDer.
snce exhorter-dlsclalmed all aEtempt AZ epno.
tions preaching, and held out very little encouT.
agement for much progress In the work of refor.
Ip9'loh through that means and the logic OF her
ulscourse gave little hope for the confirmed drum
Aaru' @ She believes in studying the organic o.
'emperamental constitution Of ourselves and our
UnLuEen' OI,' ana In so educating the appetltes and
ieellngs' that there shall be no tendency to drift
III tne ude which sweeps on to the fatal mael-
Suom' she spoke OF chronological science as thu
only true road to this selfknowledge and gelL
Improvement; made many references 10 ProG
FoWlers writings and frequently quoted from bia
hereditary Descent" she went to the root NJ the
upas in the declaration that the great army oF
dfunkards is recruited from the millions who ara
Drought into the world by ignorant motheya
loaded with the depraved appetites of dissolutN
fathers and from the cradle TO the Threshold oS
manhood are nursed with cordIals tea cofYea
mustard and pepper sauce, tobacco, wine ana
whisky.
She said that until parents knew something Of
their physical and mental organisms and thoss
natural laws which are unvarying in their opera
Ilon, 90 long may we expect to manufacture
urunkards by the thousand, and fail in the pro-
cess OF reforming one What is most needed By
society is to educate woman In the knowledge Of
her power to mold the character and tastes of her
future child, and to appreciate the importance OF
lmoiplng such fixed principles herself as to be-
come the model OF good judgment and correct
hsoi6 Tor her children to imitate imitation is the
nrst great educator OF the child and every little
child at six years old has already shaped or chos
en- his ideal man. above all, the mother should
be the companion Of her children: make home
their play h ouse and herself the genius Of the
rolioi devise ways OF amusement at home; keen
the playground around the hearth stone.
Until we have reached first causes, and popu.
larized system Ofeducauon for the passions and
feelings, we cannot expect much permanent pro.
gress In the Temperance movement The litera-
lure Of our science teaches the exercise of our an.
imal nature in ana through the influence and
under the direction Of our moral and intellectual
natures and we only show ourselves superior 10
the animal kingdom, when we lift our lower m
to the plane of the highernature; when we purify
our physical Impulses and expressions by the
moral and spiritual attributes with which we az
human beings are alone endowed While we live
in the base of the brain merely, we may expect to
De tobacco chewing and whisky ky,drnking idiots
and brutal animals but as we grow up to the top
sphere of the brain, and live more and more in
the moral, spiritual, and Intellectual realms, we
annihilate those conditions This is the i'm prove.
ment which must be made, this the reformation
which mast be brought about II we hope to Or
ganlze society of sober, industrious, felow-loV.
Ing, Cody worshiping people.
Let the pulpit andi the press, particularly the
latter because OF Its vast influence upon the
masses, help to disseminate our philosophy, and
the good effects will soon be felt In the decrease
OF crime, better state of society, higher and
truer conception OF integrity, and purer moral
and religious lie.-E, W. A. IN chronological Jour
nal for april,