Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-04-20

Who bides his time he tastes the sweet
or honey in the safest tear;
And though he fares with slowest feet,
Joy runs to meet him drawing near;
The birds are herads of his cause,
And like never-ending rhyme
The roadsides bloom in his applause
Who bdes his time.
"A favoritc Of Madam Willard.
| A Boston correspondent Of the New
Voice gives the following facts. con-
| corning the Massachusetts Eduoa
| tional Battle.'
Considerable public attention has
been attracted by the contest before
the State Legislature over tho proposed
amendment of the temperance educa-
/ tional laws OF this State, and very many |
erroneous statements have been made |
| in the news DISPATCHES, resulting in |
much misapprehension on the part of |
the general public. The present law,
recurring scientific education with re-
gard to- the effects of alcoholic drinks
and narcotics, was enacted in 1889, and
was strongly opposed. at that time by
the Massachusetts Board Of Education,
which used every possible means to
secure its defeat Under the provisions
of that law. much good conscientious
work has been done, but at tho same
time, since the law provided had no
penalty for its non enforcement, 1T has
been partially or wholly neglected in
many parts of the State.
To correct this state of things and to
insure more thorough and systematic
instruction, the Massachusetts State
Association of congregational churches,
which met at Greenfield last May, in
structed its temperance committee to
, petition for stronger temperance edu-
, cation law which needed specifications
and penalties that would insure the
] study to every pupil in the common
( wealth.
/ This committee invited the temper
ance committees of 16 other denomina-
, tions and societies to join them, form
ing the Massachusetts Central Com
4 mittee for the promotion of Scientific
Temperance Instruction in the Public
9 Schools. ~
o They presented a bill to the Legisla-
) ture which covered the features lacking
{ in the present law; namely, specifica-
i tions as to an adequate number of les
sons running through the grades to
v cover the topic, requiring pupils above
II the fourth year to be furnished with
! text books, adapted to grade and con-
D tanning the truth the law requires
9 taught, with oral instruction in the
s case of all primary children.
# This hill required the same tests for
promotion as the other studies and put
IS a penalty of fine upon the school COM
d mittee who should refuse to make pro-
J, visions for the study to be pursued as
IS required by the act.
!, Ths presentation of the bill was o
signal for an attack by the old enemies
q of temperance education. They aroused
IN the teachers to opposition by reading
1T into the provisions of the bill distor-
= ton which falsely made the penalty
IF appear to apply to teachers. An I'M
IT mense amount Of other misrepresenta-
d ton was resorted to in order to infiu
,e ence local school committees
IN The opponents employed to represent
r. their case at the hearings an attorney
o. who had recourse TO the pettifoggins
j. methods known to the courts.
Two physicians appeared MS protest
re ants, who claimed that they represented
c. others Of that profession, and sundr,
20 school superintendent.
ig One of the objections to the Law
S, which has attracted perhaps the wides
al attention, and has been teleeraphed al
to over the country. was the assertion 9
be one OF. these physicians man OF con
siderable scientific pronnence. tina
of since alcohol, according to the claim
O. of some modern Investigators, is gener
err ated in the human system, it is there
We fore not a poison. This was ably an
of swered to the satisfaction OF the legis
CO lative committee before whom tn
IS. hearing was held, By calling attention
to the fact that various other poison
are generated in tho human system,
fact which no one would attempt
advance as an argument against thel
I n,tnLl,shol 1b n rnntpr
by The opposition presented bi
,al known MS the Myers bill, the object {
cd which was to practically repeal IN
,th present educational law; but after fiy
re- hearings the legislative committee en-
lin phatically reported against tho Myers
an bill, and while failing to recommen
the adoption of the proposed amenc
ment for more stringent educntioni
law, expressed their opinion that tt
i'm agitation which had been had over tn
Of subject will result in II much bette
m, enforcement OF the present law.
ey. The Union Signal states that in re
tbo orence to the Battle the speeches |
lin petitioners and remonstrants were 4
tho most part characterized by Chri
tian courtesy and intelligence, Mr.
Mary ii. Hunte'5 closing argumel
her being spoken of as "a masterpiece
of eloquence, logic and pathos. I"
on. Our national organ also informs
nd. that Mrs. Stevens and Miss Gordt
een arrived at national headquarters Satu
:, day, April LIST, ono direct from Mali
and the other from CASTLE, N. !
where Miss Gordon spent few da
Of with her mother and sister. Both Q
ont looking well. The two weeks whit
moi they spend in Chicago will be full
nlans for the work. At the end of tn
time they begin the western. trip
fulfill the longtime promise OF COME
.ide ences on the Pacific slope. Much
mer expected Of these conferences in t
,ext promotion of the cause. Mrs. Steve
and Miss Gordon will return home
June.
Miss Jessie A. Alderman has be
ON invited to give the eulogy to Miss W
lay. lard at the Christian Endeavor \
9 of tional Convention which meets in I
y. troit, Mich, in July, and has accept
rie- the invitation.
on t -- .#
Moe Tho Honest Way,
med Here is what Horace Greeley or
inc said, and the advice is as good
follow today as it was then. "Wh
ever 40, ,uant m art;cla iuserted in ney