Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-04-25
FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE
Gathering at Old Hockessin
Meeting House.
PAPER BY MARGARET EASTBURN
Read at Friends Conference
Sunday.
Women's Ballet Relied on - Equal Suf-
frage Rapidly Gaining-comment BY
Francis w. Hicks, Augustus Brosius,
Alfred McAlIister and Others.

The quaint, historic, old Meeting |
House at Hockessin, Del, was the place
OF meeting of the Friends Temperance
Conference Sunday afternoon. The
splendid weather was propitious for
travel and Friends were present ut the
meeting from Avondale, Chatham, New
Garden, Kenneth Square, Wilmington
and elsewhere. The clerks, Mrs, Emma
M. Preston and Augustus Brosius, were
In their places, the former reading tuil
account of the proceedings of the last
conference held at New Garden, in re-
ferring TO which Augustus Broslus said
he believed that there is prohibition
sentiment enough in Pennsylvania to-
day to carry the question to y settle
ment were It solidiiied. Marcellus Cook
relied upon women's ballot to subiugate
the iniquity and thought that equal suf-
frage was rapidly gaining adherents and
felt that the end was not far of. A
paper prepared by Miss Margaret East.
buru was one of the leading features Of
the meeting and was SO highly COM
mended and SO earnest i'll advice that 1T
Is given below in condensed form.
The youth of to-day will come soon
to control the destinies of the nation,
therefore their education demands our
best thought and effort. Nearly 15,000,-
300 young people, or one person in five |
of the entire population Of the United |
States, are enrolled in the elementary |
schools.
In the education Of these, the one
thing sadly neglected is the teaching Of
the fundamental principles of temper
ance. No one ever mapped out his
pathway of life to lead to druukard's |
grave. Many fall therein through ignor-
ance of the physiology and hygiene Of
their being. The teachers OF our schools
being men and women of high moral
character and capable of the enthusiasm
Tor humanity that kindles with noble
purpose and effort are ready for the OPP
portunity to save their pupils from the
horrors of drunkenness by pre-empting
them through the faithful teachings OF
his warning science. AL schools should
De supplied with proper textbooks on
scientific temperance and bands of chill
iren organized that they may become
acquainted with the temptations they
meet in life. Much of such training
should be done in the home, but it is
painful to realize the lack of interest SO
many mothers take in the temperance
training OF the little ones, founded upon
failure to appreciate the relation Of
hat training to the child's character and
usefulness in future life. Frances Will
lard says the mother has not apprG-
ciated at its true value the systematic
drill that would have fortified her chill
hren against temptation. If the mother
can but perceive the truth about this
training she will henceforth count it
second to nothing except her own re-
lt,riS,ttc too nj, t'Ilbirc snit IL ru n 80
thus saith reason, and thus saith the
Lord" for total abstinence from alcoholic
liquors, tobacco and profanity, drilled
into the forming brain of childhood and
hidden in its plastic heart means Chris.
tan manhood and Christian woman
hood and Christian citizenship, too,
when childhood is outgrown. OF ever
100 men who reform from the drinking
habits, 80 return to those habits again,
but of every 100 boys and girls who
sign the pledge, so remain true TO il
through life. Children arc surrounded
by pitfalls that result from treachtrOus
social customs and cowardly laws; the
battle comes in the oaths and uucleau
words of the playground; in the dis
guised alcohol and tobacco t|ayors of tht
candy shop, and in the namelcss habit,
taught to pure boys and girls by the
GhlllIGH VI uil9tIhNu I4bIllGAS III lhe Wit
literature and pictures that are as
pcstilencl walking at noon to-day. I'll,
school, whether public or private, is a
dangerousa battle ground as will eve
demand OF the child that fogwariu!
and forearming which temperance cdu
cation afl0tds, Clme is best ayertad b,
sowing good Influences in childhood
Are not, therefore, the drunk0rds an,
criminals uf the coming generations to
large extent in our hands? A wis
legislation which nips vice in the bud
better economy than bniidng prison
and hospitals to heal and reform.
PRAISE FOK PArER.
, Francis w. Hicks praised the foreEc
ing paper, and SAID hu felt assured tit
woman would do her part ii man woul
do his, and dcp,oral the fact that III
dens of iniquity which confront II
growing youth upon every street Of ol
cities and towns remain there thrOu4
tile legislation and ballots of the men
the nation. Mr.. Brosius also empn
sized this point, and pointed out tho il
consistency Of teaching children rig
principles on the one side and vDtit
wrong on the other. The question,
said, is one that must come home TO GaC
one Of Us individually. IN article
practical worth from the columns Of Il
farmers Friead was Then read by Il
clerk upon tho subject Of prohibiu
and lis relation to the economics III
m morals Of the the nation, eluc,dat.i
~ the argument that crime, poverty al
unjust taHatlOn are the legitimate fTu
Of the liquor traffic; that national 81
ming is followed By national suIeTi
and that tie farmer and the dairyma
by the competition of brewery aud d