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GROWTH OF TEMPERANCE
IN THE UNITED STATES
Interesting Review of the Ttmpercnce Movem.nt. S m-
of the Temperance Organ zdticns (hat Have,^
nourished in This Country. How They
Were Started and What tfnv D d.
By R. M. Cheshire.
Washington, December 7.—Fifty
one years ago today Father Mathew,
the great apostle of tout! abstinence
passed to his reward. This irnEy
great and good man was in his sixty
sixth year at the time of his death,
and though only engaged in the tem
perance work for eighteen years he
had administered the pledge to more
titan 4.500.000 people.
Father Mathew devoted liimself to
the cause of total abstinence, without,
however, neglecting his priestly du
ties. He signed the pledge in Ire
land in 183$ and for four years devot
ed himself to me work in his native*
country, administering the pledge to
f?illy 3.000,000 of people. Scotlan 1
and Kngland was then visited and he
did successful work in the field of
temperance. It was in IS49 that h
visited this country, landing in Nev
York wh* re he was welcomed by May
or Wood hull, who tendered him th
freedom nnd hospitalities of the city
A magnificent public dinner was give:
by the common council -of the city i:
Father Mathew's honor, and toast
were drunk in pure water. He hi Id
public meetings in the city hall, and
many thousands signed the pledge. It
was after his successful campaign
in New York that he visited Washing-
- ton, where he was accorded the priv
ileges of the floor of the Senate, an
honcr never before given to any fore
igner except I^iFayette. Seldom, if
ever, has a man received such honors
from Congress as did Father Mathew.
Southern Senators opposed admitting
him within the bar of the Upper
House ,but Henry Clay and Wm. H.
Seward championed the prelate, ami
the vote resulted 33 to IS in favor of
istiugui:
frit 'her
he gnat good the
late did here is still
Washington and throughout th
1 States. On the sth of Nov
mbt
well a 1 Ire
f tilt* United States and
Ireland, where he died
IMP. he issu
to tile people (
departed f
December 8. 1856.
It is an interesting fart that th*
work begun by Father Mathew wa.-
left for another Catholic priest. Fath
er Byrne, of Jersey City, to cart*:
out. Father Mathew was not an
organizer and when the work was
taken up by Father Byrne in I860 it was
net long before there were hundreds
of temperance societies scattered
throughout the country, one of the
largest being here in the District.
These were combined into unions, i.i
cities, dioceses, and* slates, and ia
February. 1872. a convention was held
in Baltimore at which a plan for tin
f lunation of th*? Catholic Total A li
st in < nee Society was adopted, li ha
grown and prospered until the pres
ent. From this early work in temper
ance there are now more than a dozen
temperance organizations which will
be represented at the convention ot
workers in this city.
Connecticut produced th** first tern
perance organization, it being formed
in 1789. when two hundred farmers
of Litchfield county, met ami resolved
‘not to furnish any kind of distilled
liquors to their farm hinds." For
mented and hrevvtd liquors were not
put under the ban, and the Connecti
cut farmers did net resolve that they
would not drink spirituous liquors
themselves, but simply that they
would furnish it to their farm hands.
.\aturally, the society was not. popular.
conferring the honor. When he on- for it was clearly evident that it was
tered the chamber the members arose only an effort to deprive the laborers
)f that which would ‘steal
strength and sense.*
Another early temperance society
was that organized in Saratoga coun-
ly. Now York, in 1808. The pledge
taken was to drink no distilled spirits
or wine, except as nn dicine. at a pub
lic dinner, or religious rite. There
was a fine of tvfenty-five cents for
anyone who violated th** pledge or
offered a drink to any member. The
sum of fifty cents was forfeited by any
member who got drunk. Funerals,
weddings, dedication of churches, and
such like, were regarded as religious
rites.
Boston's temperance advocates
forced a society in th** year 1
pledged t;> total abstinence from
dent spirits. Rev. Dr. Hewitt was put
in the field as a lecturer by the soei<
ty. and he was t*»«* first public temper-
anoe lecturer-this country ever pro
duced Two yei.rs later Boston began
the publication of a temperance, pa
per .the first in the world devoted ex
elusively to temperance. It was call
ed the National Philanthropist, and
was soon absorbed by the Journal of
Humanity, the organ of the New York
State Temperance Society. Both th
’oston and New York societies per
mltted the drinking of wine and beer,
rhaps no temperance agitation
had a more sucessful career than
that .f the Washifltgon movement,
which began in a small barroom in
Baltimore in 1840. A drinking club
comjx>sed of a half dozen men was
in tlie habit of meeting at Chase's
Tavern. One night the Rev. Mathew
Hale Smith h-ctund at a church on
temperance. The dub appointed two
of its members to go and h**ar him and
make a reprrt. The appeal of the
minister was such as to cause the two
im*n to return to tho tavern and de
clare that they had heard sufficient to
convince them that it would be to
their interest to llorsake the wine
cup. The dispenser of coffin varnish
an l family disturber denounced the two
men as fools, and a wordy row ensued
which resulted in the entire club de
termining to form a temperance so
ciety. which was done then and there,
th** men taking a pledge to abstain
from all intoxicants and calling their
organization the "Washingtonian To
tal Abstinence Society.’ Their pledge
included all liquors than do or may in
toxicate, spirituous, -vinous, malt, even
cider, or anything that had alcohol in
it. The next night the members met
in a caj*i>enter shop, each one brin
ing a new member. The two most
their noted of the Washingtonian converts
were John H. W. Hawkins and John
B. Gough, the former a Baltimorean,
and the latter a resident of Worces-
Mass. Hawkins lived eighteen
years after joining and during this
tirhe he organized many lodges, among
them the one in this city. It was
here in Washington that the celebrat
ed Tom Marshall joined), hut he fail
ed to “remember the pledge always."
Gough was on the verge of delirium
tremens when he joined. He violated
his obligation only once, and became
the greatest temperance lecturer and
one of file finest orators of his time.
His oratorical methods were all his
own, and it is said that h<* once said
to himself. “I know I am ungraceful
»xvd awkward. 1 never stit lied grace
of action or gesture, hut I throw my
whole soul into my work."
Fraternal temperance societies be
gan'in this country with the organiza
tion of the !£ons of Temperance in
1842. This order adopted an initia
tion fee, dues to he used for the care
of the sick'and the burial cf the dead.
The ritual, was something after the
Masons and Odd Fellows. The order
met with success from the start, ex
tending all over the United States
and to Great. Britain and Ireland and
Australia. At first, the order admitted
only “male persons eighteen years or
older,” but in 1854 the wives, daugn-
ters and sisters of members _were ad
mitted to full membership. The Sons
of Temperance made the procurement
of prohibitory laws one of their chief
objects.
his membership. There is no excuse
hich will relieve a member from ex
pulsion. Judge Samuel C. Mills was
one of the original founders. In its
membership are some of the most
prominent men in the District.
The most peculiar temperance
movement of the Ninteenth century
was what is known as the women’s
crusade. It 1 vegan suddenly in Ohio
in 1873, and for a time carried all be
fore it. Bands of respectable, religi
ous. earnest women, lifted out of
themselves for the time being hv a
species of mental exaltation, would
go about the town where they lived,
and enter such saloons as would ad
mit. them, and conduct a religious ser-
*. singing and praying and exhort
ing the saloon-keejH*r to give up his
business. Jn the small towns thev
were universally successful, hut whe.i
y extended their efforts to the
larger cities they failed to accomplish
anything. The crusading was carried
on in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and
at some points in other western states
as well as in Ohio. Finally the inter
est died out and the crusaders ceas
ed work. The crusades left in their
wake a new temperance organization
A MAIL ORDER STORY.
The Staruck (Minnesota) Times
tells a rather amusing story of a man
who went into a hardware store and
wished to purchase an axe. Being
shown the article and informed that
the price was $1.15, he said, ‘‘Why, I
can get the same kind of an axe from
a Chicago retail mail order concern
for 90 cents.'
“Very well." said the dealer, “I’ll
ive it to you at the same price, pro
filed you do the same with me that
on would with them.’
"All right,’ replied the customer, as
he handed over a dollar bill the deal
giving back ten cents in change.
Now.’ said the dealer. “I want 25
e**nts more to pay express charges,”
which the purchaser gave him.
“How much did your axe cost you
One dollar and fifteen cents,” an
swered the man.
“Very good. Now give me five cents
more for money order fees and post
age," which the purchaser had to hand
over. “Now' how much did your axe
cost you?”
“One dollar and twenty cents,” said
the customer.
“Not so cheap after all/ said the
the Woman's National Christian Tem- j (lealer wherellpon he plcked up u, e
perance Cnion. in the same way the I , ossed u back on lhe shelf anJ
Murphy movement afterward led-to tol( , tho customer to caU for it ln toI1
of the National Tem-
The Independent Order o
Templars, whose right worthy
lodge has held annual sessions since
1S55. was next in the field. In its or
ganlzation it Ignored the benefit plan.
hut favored prohibition from the start.
The Temple of Honor was originat
ed by prominent Sons of Temperance
as a sort of advanced degree of that
order. It proved only moderately suc
cessful. ,
Tlie Independent Order of Reclia
bites-originated in Kngland in ISliO.
and was brought to this country in
1S42. Its name is taken from the
?.5th chapter of Jeremiah, from tlie
story of Jonadab, the son of Rechat;,
whose sons were commanded to drimt
no wine forever. The same story or
the Bible has also given a name to the
most radical temperance society in
the world—the Sons of Jonadab.
“Once a Jonadab. always a Jonadab."
Any one joining the Jonadabs and af
terwards breaking his pledge forfeits
j the formation
■ perance I'nion.
| Tlie Independent Order of Good
Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria
began existence in New York in BS47.
ills membership is small, and is rnost-
j ]y made up of reformed drunkards.
Good those who in passing front Jerusalem
grand to Jericho fell among thieves. Its
initiatory services are the dramatized
rendering of the parable of the Good
Samaritan.
.'tie Friends of Temperance is yet
another order, oragnized at Peters
burg. Vn., in November, 1S65. The
I’niteil Friends of Temperance is an
order organized at Chattanooga, Tenn..
in 1s 71.
The Congressional Temperance So
ciety is composed of a few members
of the House and Senate who ar e ad
vocates of temperance. Its member
ship has always been small.
pay county Taxes.
Pay your county taxes today. Books
elrse December 20th. H. H. Linton,
tax collector.
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