p. 711 | Whisky and Public Education

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 45.

Whisky and Public Education

A PRINCIPAL of one of the New York public schools, complains to a prohibition association that teachers dare not talk about temperance in school; because the trustees are elected by the rum interest and are controlled by it.

To put anything pertaining to education into the hands of men devoted to the whisky interest, is like putting a lamb under the watchcare of a wolf. Not but that some whisky men may have an interest in education; but the whisky interest is always antagonistic to everything that is decent, pure, and elevating. Whisky, with its associates, is the devil’s chief agent in the degradation of the human race.