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HISTORICAL
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THE GIFT OF
The Heirs of
George C. Denpeey
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TEMPERANCE SPEApR:.
A OOI4<E0TIOR or
ADDRESSES AND RECITATIONS,
FOR THE USB OF
TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS, SCHOOLS, BANDS OF HOPE,
ANNIVERSARIES, ETC.
BDITBD BY
J. N. STEARNS,
dmnLZB 07 **TEHFBRANOE CHIMES," "TUCPBBAKOB HTMH BOOK,**
"NATIONAL TEMFBBANCB AUIANAC/' BTO.
NEW YORK:
national Temporance Society and Fublioation Sou89,
68 BBABB STREET.
1873.
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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
FROM THE HEIRS OF
GEORGE C. OEMPSEY
Bntered, according to Act of Congress, in the yerir 1809, by
J. N. STEARNS,
In the Clerk*s Office of the District Court of the United States for th«
Eastern District of Kew York.
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The f'rirs of
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If the Temperance Reformation is erer to be snccesA-
ful^ the children and youth must be early taught the
blessings which result from a life of total abstinence^ and
the evils which arise from the use of the intoxicating
cup. Their young hearts are Uke wax to receive im-
pressionS) and like granite to retain them.
** Like wax ye can mold it in the form ye will ;
What ye write on the tablet remains there still
And an angers work ie not more high
Than aiding in forming one^s deettAy.**
In Sabbath and Day Schools, in Bands of Hope and
Temperance Meetings, their voices should be heard for
Temperance, and against the use of all alcoholic drinks.
Temperance is a virtue which comports with the inno-
cence and purity of youth, and we send this little volume
forth on its mission of mercy and love, freighted with
Temperance sentiments in prose and verse, indulging th€
hope that its lessons will not only be committed to mem-
ory, but that they will govern and guide their future
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lives. Among the Speeches, Dialogues, and Becitations
will be found gems of the first water from some of our
best writers and speakers, many of which have been
written expressly for this book ; and they not only have
weight as thoughts on the great question of Temperance,
but they also have literary merit of a high order, and
will command the attention of men and women of cul
ture for their artistic value and their beauty of rhetorical
expression.
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SaBU of ^onitnia.
DIALOaUES.
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A Finished Edncation. 187
AXittle Old Woman 209
A Meeting withoat Speakers ;
or, the Cliairman'B Expedi-
ents 288
Applying for a License 214
Are Intoxicating Drinks nec-
essary to People in Health?. 278
Ntelrls and Wine 268
'^ow a Great Man*s Eyes were
Opened 230
rmTooYonngl 159
Only a Little Wine 112
Playing New Settlement 80
Eaoicia Reasons 211
rAoa
Teetotal Forever 186
The Beginning and Bndiig ... 91
The Cost of Drink 266
The Drunkard's Daaghter 178
TheFirstStep 18
The Little Philosopher and the
Pretended Smoker 144
The Teetotal Alphabet 268
Tobacco 258
Twenty Appeals or Reasons
why You should Sign the
Pledge 200
What Two Little Girls Did. ... 42
Why I am a Teetotaler 19
DECLAMATIONS IN PROSE.
Alcohol is Doomed 197
Appeal to Parents 192
A Plea for Stnmblers 255
A Rally Cry to Young Men .... 67
Beware of the First Glass 76
Description of Alcohol 122
Farewell to the Bottle 179
Filling the Decanter 61
Minority with God a M^ority. 10
Moderate Drinking 272
Opening Address 7
Our Anniversary Day 35
Prohibition 16
Reform 164
Shall the Liquor Traffic be
Protected 206
Speech of an Indian Warrior
to the Rest of his Tribe on
the Evils of the Destroying
Fire-Drink 222
Strong Drink 131
Temperance an Eternal Tmth. 22
Temperate Drinkers 164
There ia a Teetotaler 1 64
The Downward Path 26
The Giant Curse of the World. 99
The Great National Evil 224
The March to Ruin 127
The Offspring of Darkness and
Light 108
The Temperance Enterprise . . 95
To Drink or Not to Drink 87
Tobacco Smoke in the House. 89
TJacle Billy's Speech 82
Wearing the Badge 72
When may a Scotchman be
called Drunk? 168
Which will You Choose ? 105
Why I Have Taken the Pledge 24
Woman's Duty 196
Work for Temperance Workers 227
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CONTEJS^TS.
DECLAMATIONS IN VERSE.
TAOM
Alcohol 177
A Modem Driuking Song 166
Avoid the Fiend 98
Boysl Let's Stand Firm 104
Child's Reply 148
Courage I Lost One 186
Cold Water Glee 213
Conflict and Conquest 876
Crystal Springs 82
Bnnkdom soon shall Fall 286
Fight On 76
FoundDead 84
God sends no Beer or Wine ... 78
Go I Feel what I Have Felt... 162
Have Courage to say No 1 71
Hail to the Fountain I .... 158
How happy we will be 88
How does the Drunkard go
Down to the Tomb ? 129
.... 66
.,..•229
.... 81
.... 48
.... 261
.... 69
.... 196
.... 77
.... 171
.... 12
and
.... 89
... 40
ngel
soil
... 102
the
166
193
29
282
160
228
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The Cold Water Battle Hymn. 94
The Coming Man 220
The Cambridge Tragedy 239
The Drunkard's Child 47
The Drunkard to his Bottle ... 97
The Drunkard's Dream 106
The Dream of the Keveler 119
The Drunkard's Wife 124
The Devil and Grog Seller.... 180
The Good Time Coming 74
The Great Water Power 93
The Gin Fiend 140
The Insulted Pig 148
The Jug of WhUky 278
The Little Teetotaler 184
The Merry Bowl 277
The Orphan's Cry 284
The Patriot's Call Ill
The Question 110
The Rights of the Rum Seller. 21
The Rum Fiend's Song. 70
The Rum Maniac 189
The Snake In the Glass 69
The Social Glass 198
The Spider and the Fly 257
The Teetotalers' Signboard.. . 288
The Teetotal MiU 62
The Temperance Star 68
The Three Glasses 87
The True Remedy. . . ; 125
The Two Workers 63
The Two Drinkers 287
TheUpasTree 18
The Universal Appeal 275
There is Ruin There 26
Thirty Reasons for Drinking. . 206
Tobacco..-,. 287
WaitI Waltl Waitl 60
Welcome to All 8
We must Act as well as Think. 226
What is a Liquor Shop f 15
Who killed Tom Roper f 57
Woman 8 Influence 66
Woman's Mitoion., 78
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THE
TEMPERANCE SPEAKER.
Opendng Address.
Mb. Chairman, Ladibs and Gentlemen— I am a man
in miniature, and shall be a man if I live, of the next gene-
ration. As such I am here to-night, to advocate the claims
of the Temperance moyement and our Band of Hope in
connection therewith. I trust you will be both pleased and
instructed by our exercises of this evening.
Ladies and Gentlemen— You will allow that "Prevention
is better than cure,** and that we shall never be drunkards
if we never touch the drunkard's drink. We are banded
together by one common pledge or bond, never to touch,
'taste, or handle this accursed thing I We are therefore the
hope of the nation for coming years, hence we are called
hopeful bands, or Bands of Hope.
The tipplers of the town sneer at our Band of Hope.
•* These young things^^ say they, "what's the good of making
them teetotalers?" Shall I try to answer this question?
I will do that by asking another. What is the use of the
nurseryman planting young fruit trees in the orchard?
Ask him, and he'll tell you that the old trees are every year
fidling off, from decay and old age. Just so, many of our
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dear old friends in the teetotal orchard, who haye hwne so
much good fruit, will, by-and-by, drop off from infirmity,
oA age, and death ; so our nurseryman here is 'getting us
ready to meet the world's wants another day. Laugh at
us, indeed I Who cares for a tippler's laugh? I don't — do
you? Let them laugh if they choose ; it wiU make no dif-
ference to us. We have started on the teetotal track, and
do not intend to turn back. Her ways are pleasantness,
and all her paths are peace. They lead to' hope, health,
and happiness, and we look forward confidently to the time
** When the might, with the right, and the troth shall be,
And come what there may, to stand in the way,
That day the world shall see.**
Yes, sir, this great movement, which has been an angel
of mercy to tens of thousands, shall one day take the great
millstone Litemperance, and shall sink it in the depths
below, exclaiming, amid the shouts of teetotal millions,
** Babylon is fallen I Drunkenness is no more 1 "
Wdcame to AU.
Mr. Chairman, Tm glad to see you, Vm sure,
Both healthy and happy, and that is much more ;
For who so healthy and happy as a teetotal man,
Who is striving to do all the good that he can ?
Ladies and gentlemen, I bow to you all ;
Fm glad to meet you in this spacious hall ;
I hope we shall please and profit you too.
Ere this evening's programme is frdly gone through.
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THE TEMPERAKOE 8PEAKEE.
We hope you will listen to our juyenile prattling,
While with the drmk-fiend to-night we are battling;
Y(m taXk of diseases and fearful disasters, — ,
Look at this drink-fiend and see whom he masters.
Education or talent, he cares not for that ;
The great and the learned he throws in the dirt;
He throws from the pulpit and platform the same,
Both eminent men, and men of much fame.
The rich man or poor man, no matter to him,
He rushes on, heedless of life or of limb ;
He strikes in a moment, and kills if he can,
The stout and the strong, the athletic man.
See the poor woman he*s just made a widow,
Whose husband was wrestling, when drunk in the meadow^
Ask the poor children whose father was killed.
Who fell from his horse and his grave he has filled.
See the vile drunkard, who, maddened with brandy,
Seized the first weapon that he could find handy ;
Then plunged the sharp dagger in children and wife I
'Twas the drink that begun this horrible strife.
Look round you, my neighbors, and say what you think ;
Are there not hundreds who are ruined through drink ?
Go ask the poor children who stand at the door
Crying for bread, in the homes of the poor.
But vain is their waiting ; their father disdains
To leave the town's drunkeries till he's lost all his brains;
Turned out about midnight, because it is law.
Or the landlord would gladly have served him with more.
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Then homeward he reels* his poor wife to beat,
Because she can set him out nothing to eat ;
Seris the disease^ friend\j but where is the cure?
Sixty thousand die drunkards here every year.
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Wliere*s the physician to stem this death-tide ?
Is there no remedy in which to confide ?
Why are not meetings, large meetings, convened,
To discuss the grave question — Can none be redeemed?
This meeting to-night is convened for the purpose
To beg of you all to come forward and help us ;
WeVe found out the remedy — we challenge the nation
To find us another in all God's creation.
Minority with God, a Majority.
It is said of us Temperance men, " You are in meh a
minority ! You will never do anything because â– you are in
such a minority r^ What is a minority? "The chosen
heroes of this earth have been in a minority. Thereis not
a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy to-
day that was not bought for you by the blood and tears
and patient suifferings of the minority. It is the minority
that have vindicated humanity in every struggle. It is a
minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict,
and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
You will find that each generation has been always busy
in gathering up the scattered ashes of the martjrred heroes
of the past, to deposit them in the golden urn of a nation's
history. Look at Scotland, where they are erecting monu-
ments — ^to whom ? — to the Covenanters. Ah, tJiey were in
a minority. Read their history, if you can, without the
blood tingling to the tips of your fingers. These were the
minority that through blood, and tears, and bootings, and
scourgings— dyeing the waters witk their blood, and stain-
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THE TEMPERANCE SPEAKER. 11
tng the heather with theu* gore— fought the glorious battle
of religious freedom. Minority 1 if a man stand up for the
right, though the right be on the scaflfold, while the wrong
sits in the seat of gorvemment ; if he stand for the right,
though he eat, with the right and truth, a wretched crust ;
if he walk with obloquy and scorn in the by-lanes and
streets, while the falsehood and wrong ruffle it in silken
attire, let him remember that wherever the right and truth
are, there are always •
** Troops of beaatiM tall angels**
gathered round him, and God himself stands within the
dim future, and keeps watch over his own I If a man
stands for the right and the truth, though every man*a
finger be pointed at him, though every woman*s lip be
curled at him in scorn, he stasids in a majority; for God
and good angels are with him, and greater are they that
are for him than all they that be against him.
Therefore I say to the friends of this movement, remem-
ber that no man is indispensable. Oh, if we could but be
hidden ourselves! If we could get under the banner and
be hidden under its folds, only bearing it right in the van I
If it is God's will that you and I or any of us shall work in
this movement, we shall work ! Men nor devils shall drive
us away. If it is His will, and if he shall supply to us the
strength, we shall work where he will, and when he will,
and how he will. It is for us, as I have just said, to do this,
and to leave the result in His hands. But there is encour-
agement for us in the fact that we are right Our object is
to roll back the tide of drunkenness from the land. Our
object is to dry up the fountains of .drunkenness. Your
object is to put a seat on the Uquor traffic. You have to put
the seal of your reprobation upon it, by your votes and
your legislative enactments. Kow all you have to do is, in
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the fear of God, in one mighty phalanx, to move with that
moral power that belongs to you, and demand thai iJiese
places shall be closed. If it is against the law to work a dis-
tillery, there is power enough in this meeting to-night to
blow such a blast as shall stop that distillery. If it is right
to do it, there is moral power enough to do it, if with moral
force we could rouse it to the act. Oh, for more faith I
then we should have better work.
Let us then, brethren, be at work for the young and old ;
for the poor and wretched drunkard, steeped to his lips in
degradation ; and for the unpolluted child. Let us keep at
work — one hand for moral suasion and one for prohMtion —
work all together; basing all our efforts upon total
abstinence as a rule, as a principle, and as a part of our
religion; our motto, "Excejsior;" our hope, there is a
better day coming; our prayer always, "God speed the
right" JOHN B. QOUGH.
Out of the Ta/vevn.
OtJT of the tavern Tve just stepped to-night ;
Street I you are caught in a very bad plight :
Right hand and left hand are both out of place ;
Street 1 you are drunk, — 'tis a very bad case.
Moon I 'tis a very queer figure you cut,—
One eye is staring while t' other is shut ;
Tipsy, I see, and you're greatly to blame —
Old as you are, 'tis a horrible shame 1
Then the street lamps, what a scandalous sights
None of them soberly standing upright;
Booking and staggering— why, on my word,
Each of the lamps is as drunk as a lord !
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AH is conf asion ; now isn't it odd ?
I am tiie only thing sober abroad ;
Sure it were rash with this crew to remains-
Better go into the tavern again.
The First Step.
Characters— Bartov and Tbxnob.
[Two students meet during their walks in the early part
of the eyening, and Barton, who has been a member of the
school for several terms, addresses Trench, a new-comer.]
Ba/rton. Good-evening, Trench. How do you do this
evening?
Trench. First-rate. To tell the truth, I am always well.
Some of our fellows complain of headache and other bad
feelings, but I never have any.
Barton. You are lucky to escape these ills. But when
you -have been here two or three terms, you won't be any
better than the rest of us.
Trench. Perhaps not We shall see. Study never did
hurt me, and I don't intend to be hurt with anything else.
Barton. So you are here for study, are you?
Trench. Of course I am. What else should I be here for ?
Barton. Kothing else. At any rate, that is the way to
Uik before outsiders. But €Ul study is pretty dull business.
Ck>me over to my room at nine o'clock, and we wiU show
you the bright side of school life.
Trench. You mean the smoky side, don't you, where the
headaches are ? «
Barton. You can call it what you please, only come oVen
You keep yourself quite too close.
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Treneh, What is the programme for the evenfaigf .
always like to know beforehand.
Barton. I really believe you are quizzing^ ani I have
half a mind not to tell you anything more about it
Trench. Then Tm off, and you wonH see me again till
to-morrow morning.
Barton. Don't be so fast. Come back, and I will tell
you. We are going to have an oyster supper. We have
got some tip-top cigars, and some prime Scotch ale to wash
down the oysters.
Trench. Oysters are well enough in their place; but
Scotch ale and cigars don't belong on my bill of fare
Barton. Didn't you ever smoke ?
Trench. No, — ^and what's more, I don't intend to.
Barton. You are a queer kind of chap ; but I must own
that you don't look much like a milksop. You had better
give up these odd notions, and come over for a good time
with the rest of us.
Trench. And have a headache to-morrow morning to
pay for it Thank you for your invitation, but I must be
excused. It won't pay. And, Barton, I wish I could make
you see these things as I do. What good is there in late
suppers?
Barton. It isn't the good we are after; it's fun, and a
jolly time.
Trench. How jolly will you feel m the morning? What
fun is there in a tearing headache and a heaving stomach?
Ba/rUm. Not much, I must confess. You have the best
of the argument, wid you are on the right track. I wish I
was with you, but it's hard turning back.
Trench. It will grow harder the longer you go on. I have
seen enough of you to know you might be a brilliant
scholar.
B<Mrton. Yes, I might There is no mistake about that
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But Pye got this supper on hand now. After that is over,
I will see you again.
[Exit Barton.]
, Trench. There he goes, a splendid fellow, on the road to
ruin. He will drown his half-formed resolutions in Scotch
ale, and forget that he ever desired anything better. It ii
the first step which costs, and I hope never to take that
step. MISS MABY DWINELL CHELLIS.
What is a Liquor Shop?
A VAMPiBB, fattening on the pain
Of bleeding hearts and children slain ;
A foe to virtue, learning, truth.
The bane of age and snare of youth ;
A licensed woe and murder den,
A curse and pest to honest men ;
A nation's burning blot and shame.
Which all its noblest deeds defame ;
Death's gilded door, round which men wait,
And madly take the poisoned bait;
A source from whence pollution streams,
Darkening beauty's heavenly beams ;
The poor man's foe, and wise man's dread.
Where poverty to vice is wed ;
A trumpet-call to all the good
To join in holy brotherhood.
This glaring wrong to sweep away,
And hydra host of evils slay ;
The misery and crime it brings
To rank among departed things,
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Whose specters, trembling in the gloom.
Us wakeful keep ; lest it resume
Its blasting sway, and daring, wage
Destructive warftire with the age.
Then rouse ye, all who hold the helm
Of public action in the realm !
Mark well the facts within your reach,
For these a fearful lesson teach
Of fostered ignorance and sin
In these abodes of beer and gin.
If, then, from guilt you would be free,
Declare— this evil shall not be.
I*rohibition,
Ladies aito Geio'lemen— The object of our Society,
and of the Temperance agitation and work of the present
day, is to prevent drunkenness rather than to cure it The
traffic in intoxicating liquors is at war with every interest
of society, is in deadly hostility to every man, woman, and
child to all eternity, and such a business ought not to be
permitted to be carried on in a civilized and Christian
community. I know it ought to be prohibited ; I am sure
that the people will come to it, and the country will be
ready for it by-and-by. If public opinion could be con-
centrated, I am sure that the sale of intoxicating liquor
would be prohibited, as inconsistent with the welfare of the
community. By licensing grog-shops, pecuniary and moral
taxes in every department of life are imposed— taking away
from US fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, and destroying them
utteily.
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We inquire \Fhy this should be so. What good reaulta
flx>m the traffic in intoxicating liquors, that we should
endure the enormous and unspeakable evils coming from
it? We say, without fear of contradiction, that the evils
resulting from the traffic in intoxicating liquors are greater
and more numerous than from all other causes of evil put