The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-09-28
Prof. Snyder, of a Michigan school,

An eastern physician told me recent
ly that perhaps after 35 cigarettesmight
not injure a person much, but before
that age he would advise no one to use
them.
/ Ask merchants, teachers and factory
snperintendents about tobacco aud boys.
Though these leaders, these overseers,
may have Quid in their own cheeks,
or may even drink, what will they tell
you? That they nre not the brightest
boys-the most to be depended on-no
indeed, and that Others will be preferred
before them every time,
Rid the boys minds Of the notion that
oil great men drink-alas! too many do,
we must confess. But tell of Lincoln, who
went back to his old home and on visit
ing the graveyard found nearly all his
old schOolmates in drunkards' graves,
Lincoln declaring that he would have
been the same but for signing the tenn.
'perance pledge when Il young man.
. Tell of President Harrison, who re.
fused to 'drink the health" of his
friends at a banquet though urgently
pressed by one and then another, saying
he was the only one of class of seven.
teen college graduates who was not n
drunkard. All the other sixteen began
by the use Of so-called harmless" wine.
Tell OF the great Professor Huxley.
What did he say? 81 would just as soon
take dose Of arsenic az would of alco-
hol. On the whole | think the arsenic
safer-less likely to lead to physical and
moral degradation" And when asked
II he didn't think alcoholic stiumlants
ip email quantities helped the brain to
do better work, he replied as follows:
vi man cannot do brain work without
stimulants OF any kind, he would better
turn TO hand work--it is an indication
on Natures part she did no. intend him
TO be head.worker
And there Is Carnegie, who says he
doesn't pose as temperance lecturer,
but observation has proved TO him that
young men are more likely to fail in
their careers from the habit of drinking
liquor than from any other form Of
temptation. He says he never wastes
time on any drinking young man who
comes TO him for employment, no mat.
ter how exceptional his talents.
And then the great Austrian physi.
clan, Lorenz, who came TO this country
to doctor the Armour child. Listen.
~ must have a steady hand, eye ana
brain TO do my surgical work mo drink
can I afford to take"
Teach these things TO the boys and
girls. Gettheir minds preiudiced early
against alcohd. The twelve or.four-
teen million children can be taught
that alcohol is poison. Believe 1t
yourselves, teachers.
What says Prof. Dickie, of Albion
college, Michigan? The foundation Of
the temperance movement is to be found
In temperance teaching in the schools
OF the whole forty-five states"
We look TO the abolishtng Of the sa-
loon by legislation, but that fails; SO
train the children, drill them, prejudice
them by intelligent instruction, till
they shall grow up hating the accursed
thing as au abomination, nuisance, a
plague. II can be done.
b Teach the boys aud girls the "close
interdependence between the brain and
It's environments" said the great Fran.
els Willard. In the remaining portion
ofithis discourse shall give you largely
her Ideas on this matter Of scientific
temperance teaching; and let none scof
because the views are those OF a woman,
for has not the nation honored her by
placing her statue among the great one.
thus distinguished at the national cap
ital?
You say again, it is alcohol's evil
work on the body we want to know about
but how close the relation "betweer
the tissues Of the body and the. temper
OF the SOUL" says Miss Willard.
Show the children that the brain con
trolls the body's intricate machinery
Clear thought gives clear action; crazet
thought, crazed action.
Teach the boy that anything which
prevents him from thinking straight
from saying what he means, from using
his five senses properly, makes hin
cruel to those he best loves-that tbinI
has no place in his life; and the time u
teach this law is just as soon as thu
child's brain can take it in.
Teach, then, the woful effect Of alco
hol on the Misunderstanding the water
licking 1t up with the fierce, insatiabl,
thirst Of fire.
Teach effect on muscles, "those mid
dlemen 'twixt mind and matter" Th'
muscles receive wrong orders from th
|disordered brain and nerve.centers
therefore the hand. cannot grasp tools
the loot is unsteady, the tongue run
riot. (.