The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-06-28

III
l. when II is old II win not depart
from it.'-solomon-
In n late temperance catechism the
question Is asked: How can the anti
LIQUOR sentiment command a large ma
joriiy OF voters In every voting pre-
cinct7'
The answer Is: at can be reached
by n campaign OF education covering
n period OF years and beginning with
the young"
We fully agree with the above idea.
viz. that the youth should be schooled
In all good when young. We are hav-
ing temperance lodges. temperance lee
turing. Sunday schools bands OF hope.
churches ana y.ner methods OF tenn
perance teaching. All do good In their
way. yet they have made but little
Roadway against the evil OF tntemper-
ance, for the reason comparatively few
OF the young ever get any temperance
teaching. Our present methods OF
temperance teaching are too limited 10
influence a majority TO vote against
the saloon. A majority OF the young.
or a majority of voters. never visit
those places OF temperance instruction.
So the question Is yet TO be answered
as to How can a temperance cam
paIgn OF education be prosecuted so as
10 reach all the young"
We answer. through the public
schools. Through our public and pri-
yafe schools all the young OF the land
may be Instructed In temperance and
other virtues. and so develop theai In
manhood and womanhood as to be
more valuable citizens. IL the temper
ance people will stir themselves TO have
temperance and other virtues, as well
as book intelligence taught In the
schools. they will then have taken
forward step. as temperance Will then
be Instilled into the minds of the rising
generations before any set habits have
been formed ir intemperance.
II Is well known that large num-
Der OF the rising generation acquire in
temperate habits from the numerous
saloons and other haunts of vice be-
| fore any thought OF its being wrong
ever enters their heads.
No doubt In n few years after tenn
4 perance In all things Is impressed upon
the young during their school years.
n generation OF young temperance
men and women will be In power. and
by their overwhelming majorities could
and no doubt would. handle the saloon
question without gloves and drive IL
from the land. This great feat can
be done only through the public schools
or IL long since would have been done
The public schools are the open door
TO temperance success. by schooling the
young In temperance and other virtues
In them.
But little opposition viii be met with
In making cleanliness. cheerfulness
temperance. patience. brotherly kind
ness and charity a part of the regime
OF instruction In our public schools. as
all fathers and mothers prefer their
children TO be temperate in all things
Although the moral law. as well as
temperance and other virtues. would.
or should. be taught In the schools.
moreover. these being tenets OF all
Christian churches and all good men.
yet Il would not be sectarianism. and
for that reason could not be voted out
OF the public schools. There would DE
nothing said or sung for or against
Catholicism. Professionalism or Mormon
ism: nothing said or sung against
popea. prophets. priests or kings: II
would be simply bringing UP a child IN
the way II should go to make a good
citizen
With the present. temperance school
ing now going on. then making every
school teacher temperance lecturer
TO the millions OF Young under their
charge. who would be bound To listen
TO the encouraging words for a temper
ate life which possibly they could not
elsewhere hear In their humble walks
OF life. What leaps and bounds tenn
perance would take with such helps.
Many homes would be made happy and
society be much improved. All school
- ~. q. =
By example as well as by precept-
There Is one other promising feature
for the encouragement OF temperance
i growth now visible. viz. some railroad
owners and managers refuse TO employ
| any but strictly temperance men. and
their good example. We are pleased TO
know. Il extending and II Is hoped may
4 continue TO extend. not only TO all rail-
roads. but TO all arteries OF travel and
| transportation where life and property
may b. endangered by Incorporate
captains and managers II Is further
hoped the time Is not far distant when
strict temperance OF employees will be
demanded by all departments OF bust
ness merchandising. manufacturing.
| farming. etc. What an important les
\ son this would be TO. Impress upon the
young In all schools. showing them the
| ImpossioIliry OF getting creditabie en-
ployment as captain. manager. super
iutendcnt. engineer. conductor. sales
man. boOkkeeper. or to be even an err
rand boy. II not strictly temperate.
Unfortunately this Is not yet demand
ed In all cases. but IL Is shaping In that
direction. and temperance instruction
In the public schools Will help Ia along
Temperance II a moral principle. check
ed by no law: IL Is associated with
cleanliness. purity. virtue. patience.
brotheriy kindness and charity. and
runs with the principles OF the moral
law that all men honor. as IL Is these
principles that form the foundation up
on which a sound character In man Is
built
Teaching temperance I'm the public
schools may be debataole as 10 the
most enectual way OF doing it. We see