Increase the dose and the paralysis of the brain increases in this order: first, of the delicate nerve matter of the superior brain (cerebellum), blunting the highest functions, reverence, modesty, love, etc., its reflex action is the loss of control of the connecting nerves, thus moral power fails and the lower nature is supreme; second,the part of the brain controlling voluntary motion is paralyzed, and also that part which is said to preside over the thoughts (cerebrum), at the same time the nerves are paralyzed, resulting in an insensibility to pain and injury, this goes on till a person is "dead drunk"; third, the last part of the nervous system affected is that which controls the involuntary actions, breathing, etc.,-this paralysis causes death.

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Continued use leads to a degeneracy of nerve matter and tissue by the constant paralysis and repair, because the structure of the nerve matter is changed, hence "disorders occasioned by the strain imposed on the system, diseases traceable to the general degeneration of the system, and diseases which might otherwise be averted or resisted;" finally the insatiable demand for alcohol, diseases of the nerves, delirium, and death.

This extra exertion of the organs tends to weaken them, which accounts for the fact you are all familiar with, namely: that when a person is taken with a serious disease and is brought to the hospital the first thing the physician or surgeon who comes to him says is, Has this person been using alcohol? Yes,-and he shakes his head. There is a question about that. That extra exertion of those organs which has been going on eliminating poison from that man makes it impossible for those organs to resist the terrible strain of a new dis

ease.

The physician says to another, Has this person used alcoholic liquors? No. Then we will try to pull him through. Those organs have not been exerted under that terrible strain. Now the effect on this nerve matter of pulling it down, paralyzing it to-day, then mending it, pulling it down, and to-morrow mending it, paralyzing it a little more the next day, and mending it again, changes the constitution of that nerve matter so that it gets into what we call a diseased condition. And there is a second reason for this terrible thirst that comes over a man. Such thirst that nothing, as he says, in heaven or earth, will stop him in getting that liquor; and why? Because of the changed condition of that nerve matter, and it looks as if there was no remedy for him. Surely it is a terrible condition for a man to reach.

Now without going further I think I have made the points that I desire. That in teaching these points we should lay the foundation on simple experiments, (with substances which are the same or similar to those of the human body, performed by the pupils themselves. That I say should be the foundation. Then we should apply these facts and explain the action on the human body. This may be supplemented by reading, not from one book but from many books, of the effects, which cannot be shown by simple experiments but which are the result of difficult scientific experiments and of medical experience.

Now let me leave these thoughts with you: Teach very carefully out of a full knowledge of the subject; discriminatingly, not with exaggeration, but for the purpose of finding the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Teach scientifically, according to the principles of the very best science, basing the work upon experiments in the hands of the pupils. Teach impressively. As I said at first a person may know all about these facts that I have presented and yet go right on doing just the same thing as before. The lessons should be taught in such a way by the teacher as to bring conviction and decision to the minds of each one of the children. Any teacher that fails to reach that point has failed in moving the wills of the children. Teach for the sake of developing right habits and good character.

D. B. HAGAR, Massachusetts:-Mr. President. We have this morning received a very polite invitation from the Board of Trade of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, which I think ought to be acknowledged, and for which we ought to return our thanks. I suppose owing to the usual number of assignments, for every afternoon of this week, it will be impossible for us as a body to accept the invitation which has been so kindly extended to us. Yet I suppose a large number of individual members of the Association will be very glad to avail themselves of the invitation which has so generously been presented. I move you, Mr. President, that we acknowledge the reception of the invitation, and that the thanks of the Association be presented through our Secretary to the Board of Trade of Lawrence, for the invitation which they have so kindly given us. Unanimously carried.

An engrossed copy of Mr. Hagar's resolution was transmitted to the Board of Trade at Lawrence, Kansas, by the Secretary.

PRESIDENT CALKINS:-If it be the pleasure of the Association, the hour for adjournment having arrived, we will postpone the discussion of the papers until this evening.

The discussion was postponed. Adjourned to 8 P. M.

THIRD SESSION.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14th, 1886, 8 P. M. PRESIDENT CALKINS: -I regret that it is necessary to announce that the Honorable William M. Beckner of Kentucky, who was to deliver an address this evening on "Education in the South," has found it impossible to be present. His letter states that circumstances beyond his control had occurred, preventing his attendance here and that no one could regret it more than he did. I have therefore taken the liberty of transferring one of the addresses from the crowded session of Friday morning to this evening, that of "The Educational Cure of Mormonism" by A. E. Winship, late Secretary of the New West Education Commission. I now have the pleasure of introducing to you Mr. Winship of Boston, Mass.

THE EDUCATIONAL CURE OF MORMONISM.

BY REV. A. E. WINSHIP, OF BOSTON, MASS.

How can we Americanize Utah? This is one of the leading questions before the educators, statesmen, and philanthropists of the land. We are, as a nation, largely responsible for the present condition of things in that strangely cursed territory; for whatever may be said of the lack of character or lack of intellectual balance on the part of those who originated this unique combination of lust, tyranny, superstition, and faith, most of those now in the toils of that wretched system might have been prevented from entering it, or rescued from it, had the government, the philanthropist, the church, and the school, done their part promptly and efficiently.

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I sat one day with a polygamous wife of a prominent Mormon, a lady who would grace any society, while she spoke with much ardor of the church and its distinctive characteristics in theory and practice. She stopped suddenly and said, “ You are laughing at me." I emphatically denied it, saying I hoped I was too much of a gentleman to do it, when she replied that she did not question my courteous intention, but could see plainly by a half suppressed smile of incredulity that I not only did not believe what she said, but did not think she believed it. Seeing how plainly she read my real thought I replied, that I could not understand how one so intelligent as herself could accept such theories of life; that to us the thing was absolutely impossible. Would that you could have seen the look upon her face as with quivering lip and moistened eye she said: "But you must remember, sir, that I was born here. My mother was a polygamous wife. I married into polygamy when I was but fifteen, and had been married six years, and had given birth to children before I ever met any one to say to me that what I had been taught from the cradle was not true."

It is humiliating to think that no civilized nation was ever cursed by a vice so prosperous and impregnable, so compact and artful, so seductive and licentious, so deceitful and hypocritical, so demoraliz

ing in home and heart as American Mormonism. America prides herself on being the modern light of the world. She flatters herself that she is modifying all the monarchical governments of earth by the illustrious example of her own success as a republic. She congratulates herself that her missionaries are civilizing and ennobling every heathen nation on earth. She should pause, however, and consider the influence of the proselyting force sent by this organized crime of Mormonism into England, Germany, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, and the Sandwich Islands. America owes it to her fair name, to the deceived foreigners who are brought hither, to the nations we afflict with the falsely styled missionaries, to the fathers who gave us as an inheritance this land by their sacrifices, to the coming generations who must solve the problems we leave, to rid the land of every vestige of this fanatical, beastly, cruel system.

I assume that Congress, the national, executive, and judicial agencies will do all in their power for the punishment of the criminals. When we have done all that the most sanguine legalists demand, we shall have remaining the multitude of sincere, deluded women, and the greater multitude of children and young people whose fathers and relatives have been imprisoned for what the almost universal sentiment of the Territory believes to be the height of virtue. The question before the people is, how to deal with these women and children, and such of the men as are sincere, in way to bring them into cordial, loyal relations with the government and those ideas of life that are our security and joy. What the public most needs is a clear understanding of the facts, a keen appreciation of the social and religious attitude of the people who have preempted Utah, a just estimate of their antagonism to the intelligence, home-virtue, and individual freedom which characterize our civilization.

Polygamy is not the root-evil of the system. It is the inevitable fruit of Mormonism, and possibly the least harmful result that could appear from such base theories and philosophies of life. It is an open question whether, if the teaching remains, it is safe to meddle with polygamy. To stop the practice and leave the teaching would be much like curing the scarlet fever by driving in the flush from the skin by a sudden chill. Chronic blood-poison may be the result of any serious mistake in checking the practice of polygamy.

What remedy is there for these evils? Law has its mission. Without it there is little, if any, hope of the efficient action of these remedies. Law in the statutes specifies the crimes, places a