The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-24
III WAS NOT A JOB.
MRS. HUNT REPLIES TO SUG.
GESTIONS THAT SHE ENGIN.
EEkED A JOB.

Charges Made and Shows the VaIue |
of Instruction of the Nature and Ef- |
feet of Alcoholic Drinks In the Pub. |
lie Schools.
When the criticism was made on Mrs.
HUNT the CHRONICLE stated that while
we believed in the purity of her motives,
circumstances required that she should
make statement. This she has done.
and it is full and shows that her motives
were pure. She writes
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.l
BATTLE CREEK. Mich, May 1S, 1S91.-
! have been for the last three weeks
travelling in one of our Western States,
changing locality nearly every day, and,
therefore, receiving my mail spasmodi.
eally. Certain clippings from North
Carolina papers with personal illusions,
which should have reached me- several
days ago, now come TO hand somewhat
belated. Ia reply to these, would say
that the statement concerning the North
Carolina Temperance Education Law be
ing piece of Jobbery" emenating from
the American Book Company, is not
misinformed as to facts and wrong as
80 conclusions. The American Book
Company had nothing whatever to do
with my efforts for that legislation, and,
as far as know, they had no intimation
that the law was proposed until after it
was enacted.
Not Al Book Agent.
am not an agent of the American
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 any thing, In this matter save my
own convictions, and my desire to save
my country from the horrors of intem-
perance, through teaching its future ci
tiz9ns IN the p.astic period of childhood
III the schools, to abhor strong drink.
] have no personal financial interest in
books on this topic issued by the Amer
icau Book Company nor by any other
publishing house
The Legislation of Thirty-Five States
and the National Congress Not Par.
ties TO Il Book Job.
great national and international so
ciety OF representative Christian woman
called the Woman's Christi IN Temper.
ance Union share my convictions on this
subject. As the result of our united ef
forts, laws requiring the study OF Scien
tlic or Physiological Ten mperance have
been enacted in thirty five States, in
cluding n O., and by the National Con
gress for all the Territories, the Distric
Of Columbia, and other schools under
national control. There is not q feature
of the North Carolina law that canno
be found ia similar statutes enac ed b,
tha National Congress or by othe
States. Therefore, if the Nortn Caro-
lima laws is a ''piece of j)bbery" thef
all these other laws are also, for the,
were secured by the same instrumental
ty and for the same purpose.
Tue idea that the Woman'S Christia,
Temperance Union or l, their repre-
sentative in their educational work
have been able to inveigle the Nationa
Congress and all these Legislatures int
enactiug laws that they, the W. Q. I. U.
or | might thereby make money on tn
sale OF books IS preposterous. AS wei
claim that the religious journal, tn
minister. missionary, or Sunday Schoo
teacher who urges the study of tn
Bible i, actuatei by a desire to maxi
money on the sale of Bibles.
The Mothers OF North Carolina, No
the American Book Company A ske
Tor the Law.
TIE Women's Christian Temperate
Caion, of North Carolina, last year de
cded to petition their Legislature, i
ssion last winter, for this Temperanc
Educ itioa law. They circulated through
out the State petitions for the same
which petitions they presented to tn
Legislature, bearing the signatures {
thousands Of n nth Caronlina citizens
asking for the law. They invited mt
their national representative, to com
10 Raleigh, aud in their behalf to pr
sent tue argument for the law to tt
Committee on Education. AT muc
personal convenience, | went, just {
l have gone to other States before Il
like purpose.
Five Different Houses Publish BOol
With one Fourth rhier space Give
To Temperance Matter.
The facts concerning the nature
alchololic drinks and narcotics and the
effects on the human system cannot
stated in less than one fourth the spa
given to the relative physiology and b
geae tnaJ is sultabl5 - b5 taught
pliuliIJ vi luNGl 'NNSo " - -
taan twenty pages in the hi5hscho
book Therefore, that amount OF tel
perance matter is specified in the La
on this topic of many States, includl
North Carolina. The fact that books
various grades implying with this spe
h;aion are published by four differe
houses not including the Americ IN Bo
company, or Dulaney & Co, Is positl
proof that there is in this clause no e
dence Of legislation in the uierests
p. set of boots or OF one PUBLISH
= good g<nher Mistaken Conclusion.
princip tSriii;or of the Biblical Recort
that nesas from preface in the Union
as-ss Of Temperance Physiologies
q, 20 statement that "these books have bt
"a more or less prepared and wholly sup
AN vised by Mrs Mary II Hunt aud fr
N.Y. that jumps to the mistaken conclus
that 1 am therefore in the pay OF
publishers Of the same. The facts IN
case about the books on this topic
- follows:
The Science of Temperance was a
branch and its school literature unp
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