The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-04

MRS. HUNT REPLIES TO SUG-
GESTIONS THAT SHE EN-
GINEERED THE JOB.
State Chronicle.

State Chr0ntcle.)
When the criticism was made on
Mrs. HUNT the Chronicle stated that
7bile we believed in the purity Of
her motives. circumstances required
that she should make q statement
This ste has done. and 1t is full and
shows that her motives were pure.
She writes:
Special Cor. State Chronicle.l
BATTLE CREEK Mich, May Is,
1901 have been for the last three
weeks travelling in one of our Wes-
tern States, changing locality
0early every day, and, therefore, re-
ceiying my mail spasmodically.
Clippings from North Carolina pa
pecs with personal alluslone, which
should have reached me several days
ago, now come though somewhat
belated. In reply to these, | would
say that the statement concerning
the \. G. Temperance Education
Law being "piece Of Jobbery"
emenating from the American Book
Company, is not true. The author
of this assertion is misinfOrmed as
to facts and wrong IS TO conclusions.
The American Book Company had
nothing whatever TO do with my
efforts for that legislation, and, as
far as [ know, they had no intimatlon
that the law was proposed until after
it was enacted.
| am not an agent Of the Ameri>
can Book Company, nor in any
sense or in any way in their employ,
nor of any other publishing house,
nor Of any one or Of ANYTHING in this
matter, save my own convictions,
and my desire to saYe my country
from the horrors Of intemperance,
through teaching Is future citizens
10 the plastic perlod Of childhood in
tGe schools, to abhor strong drink.
have no personal financial inter>
est in books on this topic Issued by
the American Book Company nor by
any other publishing house.
a great national and international
society Of representatives Christian
woman called the Woman's Christian
! Temperance Union share my con-
vlctions on this sui ject. AS the
result of our united efforts, laws ge,
quirng the study Of Scientific or
Physiological Temperance have been
enacted in thirty tiye States, iI>
cludlng n. G. and by the National
Congress for all the Territories, the
District of Columbia and other
schools under national control
There ia not feature of the North
Carolina law that cannot be found
in similar stat1tes enacted by that
National Congress or by other States
Therefore. if the North Carolins
laws is q "piece of jobbery" all these
other laws are also, for they were
secured by the same instrumental
ty and for the same purpose,
The idea that tie woman's Chris
tian Temperance Urlon or | thei
representative in their educationa
work haYe been able to inveigle th
National Congress and all thes
Legislatures in enacting laws tha
f they, the W c. T, Z. or nigh
thereby make money 90 the sale o
books is preposterous. AS wei
] claim that the religious Journal, III
minister, missionary or Sunda
, School teacher who urges the stud
Of the Bible is actuated by desir
D to make money on the sale of Bibles
The Woman's Christian Temper
!, ance Union, of North Carolina, las
r year decided to petition their Les
:. islatuvs, in session last winter, fc
|, this Temperance Education law
q They circulated throughout the Stat
5 petitions for the same, which pet
tions they presented to the Legisli
ture, bearing the signatures of thou
ir sands Of North Carolina citizen
asking for the law. They invited n
their national repre-. .entatiye, to con
to Raleigh and in their behalf
present the argumcot for the avg
> the Committee or 2 iucatiJn. 4
much personal Inconvenience, | weI
, lust as | haye gone TO other State
! before for like purpose.
=. The facts concerning The natu
,, Of alcoholic drinks and narcotics 81
their effects on the hpman syste
cannot be stated in less than o,
fourth the space gwen to the relatl
e physiology and hgiene that is sa
ale to he taught ia primary or /