The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-16

result Of the universal diffusion of this
knowledge in America, that fully L.
900, 900 railway men and 1000, 600 more
in other empioyments are required to
be total abstainers. The prohibition
of the army canteen and TIE GROCERY
In the navy keeps the service free from
the drink evil
T Journal of the American Medical
ssociatioa is quoted in the Standard
10 the effect that justice requires the
admi sion that the increased interest
in health in the United States is to
a large extent due to the study of
scientific temperance, by all pupils in
all our public schools
The different reception given by
workmen to the employers demand
for abstinence where scientific temper
anee is not taught in the public schools
is illustrated by the following in
cident:
The manager of a large factory in
Germany recently posted an order for
bidding the workmen to bring into the
factory beer or other spirituous
liquors, or to drink the same during
working hours. The workmen num-
bering over a thousand. held a meet
next day they conspicuously carried
in their beer.
During the excitement caused by
the order, a pamphlet appeared by an
old factory official who affirmed that
the use of alcoholic drinks is detri-
mental to the laborer's own interest.
He referred to the cleverness and So
briefly of the American workmen which
make them able to do very exact and
precise work which, he says, is not
possible in German industry because
of the drinking habits of the laboring
elias 3es.
The American workman does not re-
sent his employers demand for alb
stinence, because he has learned, often
from his child in the public schools,
that alcohol not only dulls the brain
but weakens that nerve control of mus
Gle nece. sary to the precision essen
tial for fine work.
The nomination for knighthood, for
his work in England, of Sir Hiram
Maxim. the American born inventor, was
one of the last official acts of Queen
Victoria. In an article in The Worlds
Work of June, 1901, Sir Hiram fur
nishes indirect testimony to the same
point:
1.-The English workman spends a
great part of his earnings in beer, to-
bacco and betting; he has no arnbi-
ton" Of course not, for beer in dull
ing the brain dulls ambition. The
American workman wishes to get on;
work in a day than any other work
I1 n 1nf
drink says another English writer.
England is beginning to see the diff
ference in results between occasional
talks by temperance advocates to
school children and the systematic
graded public school study of this topic
required by law in the United States.
AT a meeting in Birmingham, adj
dressed by the late Archbishop of Can
terbury, the presiding officer, Mr.. Ed
win Smith, said:
I'VE are being beaten in skill ]. {.
by America. She has been lavish in
spending money in educating the
brains of her people. while we have
been lavish in poisoning them. If
we spent per head on alcohol the same
as America, our drink bill would be
about sixty-six millions (pounds) less
than it now is. We can not succeed
commercially while we are handi-
capped in this way to the. extent OF
forty-eight per cent. The great mass
of the working people in this country
are totally ignorant of the effect OF
drink He said that England ought
not to leave education on this subject
merely to the temperance societies.
but that it should be undertaken by
the state. Surely, if the state must
encourage the traffic for revenue, ii
should in fairness educate every child
in government schools as to the ma
ture and danger of alcohol, and the
benefits of total abstinence.
IF the state will only edu-
cate the children against strong drink
England commercially may
even yet be saved
Industrial supremacy belongs to
that country which enjoys cheapest
materials, most improved machinery,
and nlrSt efficient labor
AS clear brains and steady nerves
are needed for the preparation of both
material and machinery, as well @as
their use, that nation whose brains
are not dulled by alcohol and other
narcotics, other things being equal,
will win in the worlds competition.
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