The Cecil Whig., 1886-08-14
MR.. sQUIER EXPLAINS
His Position on the Alcohol and Narcotic
Resolution Offered Recently at the State
Teachers ASsociatiou

His Position on the Alcohol and Narcotic
Resolution Offered Recently at the State
Teachers Association.
Mr.. EDITOR In your issue of two
weeks ago, THE WHIG contained an arti
Gle ihquiring as to my action at the State
Teachers Association, which met at the
Blue Mountain house in July, in regard
to book that the association was asked
to commend to the favor of the various
school boards of the state.
To give you true idea of the whole
affair 1t will be necessary to explain the
action taken by the Teachers Associa-
ton which met at Deer Park in 1855. At
that meeting a committee of ladies from
some temperance alliance came before
the association asking it to bass reso-
luton asking the legislature of the state
to enact a law that physiology should be
taught in the public schools of the state
with special reference to the effects of
alcohol and narcotics. This committee
was informed by others as well as myself
that physiology had been taught in the
state by law for the last ten wears.
then spoke of a book which we had
adopted in our county with complete
unanimity and with my special commen-
datlon as one of the best books on that
subject for the public schools had ever
l.,
brought before the association asking
the Legislature to pass such law Mr.
Newall, principal of the State Normal
School, and others, as well as myself,
objected to asking the legislature to do
what was already done by law in the
schools of the state, and the resolution
There was a resolution suggested and
supported by me in speech asking the
teachers of the state to give special en-
phasis in their teaching to the subject of
the effects of a'cohol and narcotics on
the welfare and happiness of society;
that resolution passed q believe) with
out dissent, aud so the subject was for
that time disposed of. This action, how
ever, did not satisfy the parties; it was
not enough that this subject was taught
in the schools of the st ate, but they must
have another law passed 10y the state for
their own honor and in their own way.
so they went to the leg stature and sue.
ceeded in getting a law passed according
to their own desires. And truly it is a
law that will scarcely justify the wisdom
of its children. 1t is provided in that
law that physiology shall be taught IN
the public schools of the state with spe-
cial reference to the effects of alcohol
aud narcotics on the human system, and
that the book used IN these schools be
ptinted 0nd pubiished in tie stnte 0f
Noryl"nd
Now the only difference IN this law
from that under which we had been con
Quoting the schools is the words ''spe-
cially taught and the fact that the book
must be published il the state.
At the meeting of the Teachers Asso-
citation at Blue Mountain IA resolution was
offered foi adoption by the ASSOCIATION,
i'll the preamble of which it was stated
that the association which met at Deer
Park had asktd tie legixlature to D0ss
s"ch Il la'r, and whereas the legislature
mad done SO we were asked to return our
most hearty thanks to the members of
that body Tor complying with our wishes
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