The Red Cloud chief., 1885-05-15
SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE EDu-
CATION.

SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE EDU-
CATION.
The Success Which Has Already Attended
the Efforts in This Direction.
Much has already been accomplished
in this direction. Every one od the adj
mirablc Normal schools of the State of
New York is obliged to make a specially
of drilling the teachers in hygicnic
physiology with special reference to the
effects of alcoholic stimulants and mar
sotics. The same is true of Michigan.
Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode
Island. Every child in those States
= must be equally instructed in this branch
of study. This area comprises one
seventh of all the school children in the
Nation, and these laws have been Sc
cured in two years of effort by the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Since | began this article Missouri's
Legislature has adopted the same law.
Ind Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
are almost sure to follow before their
sessions close. Nor is thcrcsa State or
a Territory in the Nation wherein we
are not making strenuous efforts to Sc
cure a similar law. Mrs. Mary IL.
Hunt. of Boston. is at the head of this
department. and has a genius worthy
~ a Maior-General for strategic points
and skillful combinations. In each
J State and Territory she has m official
c"adiutor, who in turn has one in each
local W.. c. I. L.. so that ten thousand
lines radia:e from the head quarters of
our Nat onal society to as many towns
&hrrc our local members are at
work. But we do not by any means
wait for a law to tie adopted. We
constantly petition local educational
boards and individual teachers to
use their influence for hygienic teach
ing. There are thousands of schools to-
day whore our new and complete series
Of textbooks has been regularly intro
duced. and thousands more in which
\ earnest teachers find opportunity. by
> oral and reading lessons. subjects for
ESSAY. defamation and debate. to lay
Che foundation for more systematic
work. We induce persons Of wealth to
offer prizes for the best essay on the
evil effects of in~iOXicants twenty-five
thousand children having been thus
reached in San Francisco. Cal. and ten
of thousands in other STATES. Prizes
' are also gwen to teachers III Normal
schools for similar essays. and reference
libraries are furnished to such schools.
We have devised textbook covers on
which total abstinence arguments are
printed. and which many OF our unions
iurni>i, free TO the schools sf their W
towns. The Teachers Conventions IN
MANY States and counties have adopted
resolutions declaring their adhesion TO
ythiS movement, and last summer the
National Educational Association at
Madison, Wis. gave an emphatic utter
ance 10 the same purpose. President
Bickneil in his address said: 1.-Two per-
sons stand at the threshold 10 protect
the iycoming generation from becoming
an easy prev 10 the devourer OF health:
happiness and Heaven. The natural
projectors of our youth are the parents
and the teacher, rs home and schooi
! are the citadels for their defense.
Formation. not reformation, rs now the
educational watchword whieA woman
has proclaimed rs the signal to DE sent
To all of her allies in b world. ana inc
two words. Woman and Temperance
each the symbol of the good q the
TRUE. shall ne for ever united
Talking with teachers on his svoJec.
of Scientific Temperance Teaching. l.
! have found their sympathy almost UNI
= yersal. hut they have often sad: I'VE
are already SO ovcrcrowded with duties
tina, the practical difficulty is. how en-
we add this to our cares or lind time
for the children to take up auothef
branch?" 1t seems to me that the -
p~erintendert of Schools in q leading city
of Massachusetts made 4 conclusive re-
ply TO this objection when he a.d re
.eently, in reply to the President OF the
VN. {. 7. L.: This subject ought 10
be taught. If the schedule is too much
crowded already we will take some
thing out and make room for tins, n.
cause it is entitled to the right OF way
l believe this systematic rucno
which both forewarns and forearm
them. to be the road out OF bondage !or
the children of America NO otne, lux
, stitution of the Republic reaches tnei"
all. Powerful as are the forces OF pu.-
pit and press. the former does no' OF
tract all ears, and the latter IS iafgei!
influenced by the saloon In finance ana
the saloon in politics. But to the scnooi-
house door come white and black. m
tive and foreign-born; inside aus wMs
are invested their formative years. ana
the laws of their being. IS eet
forth by science. must PPe. "
y their self-l0ve. an affrlcuse upon
which we may always conhdenuy 49,
our calculations The German. wn0
learns that tho laws Of nature axe saGes
with total abstinence. Will graGuaiiy
cease the cry Of '.fanaticism-. He 10y
comes home from school and tells HIM
that in times of pestilence md sun.
stroke the beer-drinkers pay forfeit MD
the total sbstainers get on scott nee;
yfhat these last axe st . premium 80
the life insurance companies; that Aey
win in the athletic games; that they are