The Press., 1890-11-13
V. c. T. .. DEPARTMENT.
THE VICTORY OF TRUTH.

!, Dear Union Signal: When the clamor of opposition is ringing in our ears we are often tempted to cry, "W rone is forever on the throne :' but as time goes by we find that Truth, even when Ion the scaf- fold" s'sways the future" that she at last controls. Every great reform has turned on some pivotal question, and when the right answer to that question has been ac- cepted by the consciences of men, victory has followed.
 When the thought of the eqnal rights of men, independent of complexion, became universal conviction, the fate of human slavery for the entire civilized world was sealed. The fate of the temperance re- form with the ruin and wretchedness 1t seeks to prevent turns on the question. What is alcohol If by nature it is an out law, as soon as the people come to believe it they will outlaw it, is the logic of the past and present. Willy opposers often befog the popular mind and cause delay by evading the main question of reform ]; but the day is over when that can be done in this case.
 Twelve million children in our republic are under laws requiring them to be taught what alcohol is and what it will do to them if they drink it. The question, with all it involves, is before us and cannot be bad gered or beaten out of sight. It must be answered, and to the children of our nation and age Modern science has answered it and declares "Alcohol is a poison, specially dangerous ill small quan- titles because s'It is the nature of little to create an uncomfortable appetite for more. .>..,... It will probably not seem strange to the future historian that it should have been very difficult to get these and kindred truths fully stated in the school text books offered on this topic. Truth that opposes popular notions and appetites has always had hard time in the world. But truth, as we have seen, has in itself the elements of ultimate success, and, as the theologians would say, "It is in the nature of things that these deficient temperance school | text. books should be revised, ,' as the read CTS of this article probably know they have been, to large extent.
 It has been great joy to welcome these \ books as they have come to my desk, one after another, fresh from the hands of the printer. First the primary books, beauti- fully illustrated and as attractive as the best modern picture or story books the intermediate, and then the advanced gram mar grade books, and the high school editions, all carefully graded and repre- senting the latest and best educational methods of presenting truth.
 | There are great names as authors on the title pages of these books Dr. H. Newell Martin, an F. R. S., and professor oi biology in Johns Hopkins university, 6 physiologist honored on two continents Dr. Roger s. Tracy, of the New York board of health Dr. A. B. Palmer ano Professor Stowell, both of tine Michigan state university, and others.
 This galaxy of authority settles ths question of scientific accuracy. There i, not false note on the vital question il one of these books. They all declare 1T unqualified and understandable terms, that alcohol is poison, and trace ths story of it's poisonous action through the threefold human system, the mental, tho moral and the physical. And better stil they are being put into the hands of tho school children of the country just as fas as they can be printed.
 Wendell Phillips once said, "If you car permeate your school books and school houses with the truth that is the basis o your reform, the victory is 8 question o only short time." We now have tn. ''permeated school books," and the law has given us the larger share ofthe ''schoo houses" and the question, therefore, O how soon alcohol will be abolished iron the habits and traffics of the Americal people depends upon the faithfulness o the present temperance workers in secur ing the enforcement of the spirit and let ter of these temperance education laws.
 MARY H. HUNT.