Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-11-17
N ToB >oto.
VerJ Able Address Delivered
by Pc. Burns Before Re-
cert Meeting OF Edge
field W. {. I. u.

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dies mast be used :lnd AZ ~oa:ra.i.,ii
performed, l lhinS dG:w! ih.@ /,
say, "pDctur, get i"a Il ,!cset % ii'
hospital, and pack nay grip for Il,
long a trip as i; necessai " ]
should not like to b. considered
historical but | don't mind being
called radical; for when that impu
tation is put on me l a laughing
~ fling at the Gus those words
of Josh Billings: Il figure it, that
if you're right you can't be too
radical; and if you're wrong you
can't be too conservative" The
knowledge that l was right made
me get keen enjoyment out of the
situation that came up in the meet
ing of the temperance committee of
our Legislature when speaker Car
michael disregarding and cutting
short the expostulation of the Anti
Prohibitionists uttered the ringing
exultant sentence: You may as we'll
shut up, gentlemen, we have got the
cloth and we are going to cut it to
suit ourselves"
1 confidently believe that not only
will Alabama cut the cloth to suit
ITSELF but the Prohibitionists Of
South Carolina and Florida and
Louisiana and every state in the
entire south will do the same. If
however our temperance laws are to
be operative in the future the pres.
emit campaign of education is to be
made more extensive and more in.
tensive. The laws can only safe
guard in a. passive way our moral
interests. We must all be inclined
toward morality if the greatest
good is to be effected. Carpers are
assuring u.s. that we must secure
total abstinence not by legislation
but by education. We r taking
them at their word so far as the
education goes and we are merely
proving orr faith by our works
when we enact such legal measures
as shall best present the undoing OF
what we teach. We realize that all
effective laws are the out growth OF
sentiment though laws themselves
may in turn do much toward di-
recting. a proper sentiment and we
realize too that the most effective
education is that which we give the
children. There is beyond any
question as law makers and all other
right-thinking people underestimate
imperative need for the instruction
of children in the matter of alcohol
les and narcotics. Theoretically, the
task ought not to be a hard one, and
certainly is not an impossible one.
If it be possible to impress on a
child's mind indellible, ineradicable
religious convictions why should il
not be quite as feasible to imprint
the proper convictions concerning
alcohol and tobacco?
Now what shall they be taught
in the graded school? Ny answer
may at first blush strike you as pure
ly insn for l am goil g t. say teach
the pupils the .tacts: In some npa
thence you say, of course, the
facts" but don'tle let your impatience
run away with you for I am hasten
ing to my explanation. We want
the ffucts, not some clap-trap stuff
miscalled scientific and allowed to
pass unchallenged simply because
labelled with that magic catch-worc
scientific. This is prominently the
age of science and most of us il
our eagerness to keep up with the
procession have made a fetish o.
science. We are dispo sed to accep
anything that is said to be OF is pre-
sumed to be/a scientific doctrine
We could not fall further short o.
the scientists ideal than by so doing
Science deals with plain, unvarnish
ell, and ungarnished facts. In ou'
teaching let's not be hysterical and
exaggerated. Exaggeration and mis-
statement always react on the cause
they are intended to bolster. o
course it is presumed that no on
would consciously and knowingl.
allow their enthusiasm for temper
ance to lead them into intemperat'
statements. Such danger as arise
comes from a lack of proper infor
nation and a plentiful supply o
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