Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-31
ALCOHOL IN THE SCHOOLS.
A TEMPERATE iRG UMrST AGAINST IN
ILL-aDTISED PROPOSITION.
Children Not Likely 10 hc BcnciitCd by Text
nook Illustrations of Innamcd Stomachs
School book Law Sot Tho Hest
Protection Against vice,

From the Philadelphia ledger
\ compulsory law ordering the pictures of
druukardS' stomachs into the school books,
and the study of Acknowledgment conGes-
tions into childrcu's class exercises, should
not be hastily rushed through the logis
laturc as an easy rolCCatiOn Of tho subject of
alcoholism to the tcndor Young generation.
If grown men, who know by every day'Sob
servatiOn and the popular information con.
cerning alcoholism that l. 50 freely dis.
trihutcd in the public prints, do not find
themselves strong enough 20 regulate the
subject Of liquor traffic. what is to Toe gained
by putting such ropulsive testimony before
babes? \ child fed on Robinson CTusoe
does not imbibc dread OF tho sea tor all Of
Dofoe's elOquonCc of privIton, hU rather u,'
clines TO set up on desert island 0t his own
until the effect passes on Nor is there any
special beauty to the juvenile eve IN a dia-
gram Of the pale pink stomach Of health over
and above the deep red and hvid spots of the
diseased organ ON chart. II might in
deed I've tried whether a class, after
a lecture on poisonous candies, could
be trusted to pass round a box Of the danger
Gus sweets. and merely to look and not taste.
Some Of them would be apt to venture on
little one Of the bright green OF yellow sugar
plumS, Just 10 see Il what Is said j. true.
| What more information aS 10 the physical,
| mental and moral ruin of iutemperdnCo i
needed by the legislatures Of the country
| than they now possess SENATORS and repre-
! sentativcS must live out of the region of eye
| sight rs well aS newspapers indeed, who do
| not fully understand that liquor GllS the
! courts with criminals, the iaiis with prisoners,
| the grave with suicides and mUTGprCr-: that
| 1t is responsible for many diseased and Grip
! pied children, for imboCilcS, and some insane:
! that il costs tho state and its muuicipali-
| ties in appropriations for public institu-
! tOus far moro than can over he returned to
"a al al
| purposes now before the legislature. Ii the
! mass Of the people do not know this. every
! legislator does OF may know H. Every in
| temperate man or woman knows enough
| about liquor To be restrained, if argument
waro all They also Know that some Of ii IS
| pleasant to take that it feeds their cravings,
! and gives them a lift over present dullnCSS ;
| that 1t de1denS their perception of trouble
| and shame; that il furnishes them with
! frenzy or tcrconcSS TO do mean and brutal
! things that the day of reckoning may be in
| the distance, with bcEgary, disgrace and ply
| steal torment and that the qualification is
| very near, very pressing in the present
| When there arc no other aids to Temperance
! than knowledge, the opportunities for indul-
| genCC that makes brutcs out OF mon cannot
| be expected to keep school children philosO.
| piers when school children are grown up.
Illustrations OF Diseased Stomachs.
Therefore it is hard to SEQ that the youth
Of the country will be 50 much bracod up
with the hatred Of alcohol by the exhibition
OF pictures OF diseased stomaChs while the
examples set them by their elders run the
other wav-Surh, for instances as teach them
| to associate with government affairs close
familiarity with tavern window a. place
| Tor holding elections; the places where the
| citizens exercises his highest duty. So long
| as poor little unCUmplaining Casabiancas
| may be sent and must 20 with unlawful
! pictures TO "sidc-doorS > on Sundays, with
| the fullest knowledge that they are 10 dOdgo
! the nubllr how will lass q lDflIrI, 80
/ tissues set of this familiar handling, smell
| and taste of liquorH
| The pictorial knowledge Of tho hurtfulne-S.
! or even the parental injunction. doe, not
| keep the small boy from eating green apples
/ in cholera time, if he has chance at them,
| or from swallowing cherry stones or other
| defiant experiment. any more than the iu-
| telligence Of the guurmand keeps him from
| the indulgence that will cut him Oft with
| Brlghts disease or gOut When the boy has
| had the collie and the sensible man his warn
| lugS from suffering, he i ready for the ap,
| pllCatiOu of the text But the application ol
tho results Of applied liquor experience come
100 late an most instances 1" be of use. and #
Is certain that no carly training in temper.
| HnCe hygiene would alone brace up a weak
child with hereditary appott,s when tho
temptation - thrust upon him and the taste
Is acquired.
In no way do we mean that there should
not be the best understanding OF the bur,
Gens that intemperancC puts upon the com
| munity aud upon individuals But a lc-s,
| lature may SO easily satisfy itself with order
! ing the matter into the school books and let
| ting il alone cyeTvw here else. 1t j. easy /,
! refer the subject To a generation that has vet
/ to grow up, That the IniormItiOu which is
| already in possession Of most mature people
| in this commonwealth viii work som,
| miracle upon the coming race may be doubted
| il tue rising generation Is LEFT with q school,
| book law aS its protection against the crowd,
| ing temptations TO drink.