things of which I would like to speak, one of which is the degeneration caused to the race by the use of tobacco; our boys are beginning to smoke cigarettes at eight and ten years of age. Major Houston of the Naval School says one-fifth of the applicants are rejected on account of heart disease and that ninetenths of these have induced heart disease by the use of tobacco. All of these, perhaps, are the children of tobaccousing parents. Surely the outlook is a serious one for coming generations when we consider how much tobacco is used, and when we are aware of the fact that the use of tobacco produces degeneration of the individual. Not long since I saw a case of a family where everything around betokened comfort and luxury, but the wife was a sad-looking woman and I wondered why it was; her husband was a smoker, and she told me the cause of her sad face. He had been three times paralyzed by tobacco and yet he persisted in using it, saying that it did not hurt him. Their oldest son had a heart difficulty and their second son was an invalid, both of them suffering, as she felt by the use of tobacco by their father. If we can impress upon our boys the value of letting tobacco alone we shall have done something to lift up the world into a better inheritance. If we looked upon the human body in its whole organization as sacred and taught our children to reverence it in themselves, to hold themselves as pure and holy, what a blessed inheritance we would leave for our children. We should as mothers take that subject up and study it in all reverence and learn how to present it to our children in a right and pure manner, so that we will show to them that we believe in God's laws in the human body; that they are sacred; that we reverence ourselves; that we desire them to reverence themselves. If we do this certainly we shall be making a glorious bequest to coming generations. The session closed with singing.

SIXTH-DAY MORNING.

Singing under the lead of MISSES TURNER and Law.

TEMPERANCE.

The Recording Clerk read the following Testimony on

Temperance:

The untold misery and crime resulting from the drink custom and the drink traffic call for increased vigor on our part in the irrepressible conflict between the home and the saloon; between order and anarchy; between civilization and savagery. Total abstinence for the individual, and legal Prohibition for the state, with the moral power behind it to enforce it, must be imperatively demanded as essential to civil order and national prosperity.

THOMAS LONGSHORE said:-I heartily subscribe to the sentiment contained in that Testimony; I know there is a strong feeling among reformers-among liberal men and women,temperance people-that can not subscribe to the sentiment contained in that Testimony. There is a prevailing belief that moral suasion must rule the world, but moral suasion can not reach the great masses of people who would behave themselves and be temperate if they were not tempted and almost provoked to excess. This class can not be reached by moral suasion so we must accept Prohibition.

WILLIAM HARVEY:-I think, Mr. President, from the very fact of the vote this morning being so meagre on this question that is strong presumptive evidence that the people are not fully pursuaded that it is just the thing. I have been a Prohibitionist all my life and am still a Prohibitionist,—a selfProhibitionist. I think it would be a good plan to make every person that drinks feel in his own heart and soul that he is doing wrong; I think it is our duty to make him feel that he is doing wrong-not only wrong to himself but wrong to his posterity.

I for one am ready to accept anything that will cure the evil of intemperance; if we can not get the whole loaf let us get a part of it; if we can not get the people to adopt Prohibition in principle and in practice let us endeavor to co-operate with any movement that is calculated to correct this evil in the

lesser degree. If we can shut up a rum shop there and save one community from the contamination of Intemperance why not do it; if high license will close up thousands of drinking saloons in Pennsylvania is there any man so blind to his own interests for the cause he has advocated for years as to say "I will not co-operate with High License because it might throw some stumbling block in the way of my idol and pet-Prohibition? Rather say I will co-operate with High License and that I will advocate high license under favorable circumstances as an important step towards bringing about Prohibition in the end.

WILLIAM LLOYD said:-I do not want to occupy your time on every question but it seems to me our friend who has just spoken has asked the question which I want to answer. "Are there any so void of humanity that they will not co-operate with this, that and the other movement claiming to serve the cause of Temperance?" Yes, there are. I will not co-operate with any movement, or with any men, who sanction the heinous sin and crime which we are warring against and I will not do that which shall put down one grog shop if thereby I sanction and sustain another; that is simply where we Prohibitionists stand.

I wash my hands clean of the guilt of this thing, and if my fellow-men shall see fit to sustain the grog shops of the land on them be the guilt. We can not, we should not, acquiesce in a wrong for the sake of any temporary good which we might establish.

GILES B. STEBBINS said:-I do not rise to occupy any time because I am aware there are other important matters that ought to come up very soon. I believe that Prohibition prohibits better than anything else; at the same time I feel a delicacy which is shared doubtless by others, in pushing forward any expression of opinion which would be against the feelings of any considerable part of a meeting like this; but on hearing the second reading of the resolution that difficulty in my mind was done away with. Of course, one could stand here for hours and talk upon this very question, but it is need

less and out of place now. But let me say that the trouble I had at first about forcing a matter like this was done away with by hearing the resolution re-read, because it implied a desire for such growth of the Temperance sentiment, such growth of the moral sentiment, as would make effective and thorough the operations of prohibition, and on that ground, it seems to me, any person in favor of Temperance should vote for this resolution heartily. It implies an earnest and intense desire for the enlightening of the public, and for a growth of sentiment on the part of the people in favor of Temperance, and on that ground it seems to me a very clear thing, and a very admirable thing for a good meeting like Longwood earnestly, heartily and unanimously to endorse it.

PROF. DAVIDSON said:-I will only say a few words in order to justify the position I will be obliged to take. I cannot but be sorry that a Testimony which is so important should have mingled in it an element of which I think some of us cannot altogether approve. I think nobody can be more opposed to all the habits of drunkenness, or more aware of all the evils that follow from it than I am, and I should be very willing to give the strongest moral support to anything that would promise to put down anything of this kind without doing a greater harm, or without infringing any great principle of our liberties. I do not propose to discuss this question at length, but I am extremely sorry that the question of State Prohibition was introduced into it. If it had been put in a form to which we could all promise our moral support in every way, to put this great evil down without calling upon the State to interfere I should have gone with it heartily, for I cannot vote in favor of State Prohibition. It must not be interpreted to mean that I in any way approve of the continuance of the sale of liquor. I cannot help thinking, however, that a greater evil is done in State Prohibition by infringing our liberty. It seems to me a greater evil and for that reason I cannot conscientiously vote for State Prohibition, but I think I feel as strongly the evils of drink as any one can possibly do

and would do as much as any man to stop the traffic, short of giving the precedent which might be an infringement on our liberties in very dangerous ways.

J. WILLIAMS THORNE said:-I take it it is the common sense of the community that we have the right to put down by law anything that we deem to be a nuisance. Suppose, for instance, we attempt to build a bone-boiling establishment somewhere about the centre of West Chester? Would not the law compel us to take down the establishment and abate the nuisance? You have a right to abate this most tremendous nuisance of Intemperance. Then the question comes up what effect does the law have in the case? Intemperance is the very basis of murder, and if you have the right to punish murder by hanging, you have the still stronger right of abating that which really causes the murder. Murders increase exactly in proportion as the temperance cause is lessened in strength. It is then sufficient, nay, it is obligatory that we shall apply the law if we can. I know that we can not do it here yet, but you can use your moral influence until you get the majority to adopt the views of Prohibition. You can take a firm stand in regard to the use of it as a medicine. Some two or three years ago Longwood Meeting passed a vote or testimony that it should not be used and cannot properly be used as a medicine. I am firmly convinced of that. I say abate the whole nuisance and allow none at all, unless it be a very small quantity for mechanical work and the chemical laboratory. We have only begun the agitation of this subject. Every State in the Union will yet have Prohibition; furthermore it will be the greatest reform that has ever been effected in any community.

After singing by MISS TURNER the Presiding Clerk said :It was the desire of the Committee that the subject of Education should be taken up to-day; not in the superficial sense in which we often think of the word, but in the deepest and most radical sense possible as applying not alone to mental development but to physical development and to moral development, to industrial and political development. In a word that the