The Lake County star., 1877-05-31

The Tipplers' Rebellion.
THE NEw-sTyLE TEMPERANCE RE-
FORM. some FEATUREs AND
SPEECHES OF THE MOVE
MENT IN NEW YORK - < :,
AND Quo. -
The ssAuasveiHary "a {scter sndsuo-
oene of the nev temp peennce no1emen1
enM how eelnpje 81 ID lEl5li ~
York and north PenhsvlxInis.
nearly all Ohio, and IarfsspoSll tns@ =
llitnole and Indiana, confiuuuto be e.
lphttically attested. ~ IL a1to9e thef b
new thing, In which the professional
tempennce-worken have v0ky little
l44nee 4here they have any sninise
tefs Jake back seat, and the women
have only to "stani still and see the
salvation Of God, while the men who
ftr faEink ~ 90 the Eef3rping; There are no 9
ns SsIS fa s Ss, 4E @ Ua = sSx sSl eea
uo Win 0SuiuSU llceu5e8 OT ally sou OI
law,-nOthing, In short, but plain
sense. The effect Is beyond precedent,
II the correspondents In these regions
may be trusted, and they all tell the
same story except an Ohio correspond
ent of the New York World, who says
1t Is fiat humbug and predestined
statement must be false, for the weight
nf avid m an q spoiv,ot a. Tho oov, xrov
Enio14 of drinking to abstinent men are
kes3fIhatedeat A 10000, persons In New
|sYSrk StateAnd Sc, 600 In Pennsylvania.
slnce Francis Murrhy's first meeting
iIkYt ttsburg, which occurred In Janu-
a1M How 1t works Is well reported
iIf tl1e correspondence of the various
pRpe&s, ana -particularly graphic is Q
ldft1r from Elmira in the New York
SGn, from which we quote several In
teleN6ng paragraphs
s'Ic Is arlsout break right In camp;
taoanon among the forces. 1t is o tip
plersF rebellion, and that is what no
oY44Eer saw Ina temperance revival,
and I've seen every one since 1840,"
an old gentleman In Oswego said.
I'VE always thought before that the
ministers bad got to begin the thing
ana drum up recruits. But this Is en-
npsly the|work of the drinkers. They
h6vo rebelfed. The-old gentleman
told the truth. Out H0rnellsville way,
such men-as the Hon. Horace Bemis,
Canal Commissioner Haight and Char
ley Thomson took the initiative. They
6fe called jolly good fellows, and never
Dreamed Of meeting q friend without
swallowing Something, They stopped
simply because, as one Of them said in
a DkeSting, he had made up his mind
thu he wasa fool for having got out
side Of 60 much liquor In his day, and
1t ~A4 about time to stop. 4a-
sVSn Ettenville has had hard
name," Mr.. Arnold, formerly hard
d1tHker, said: probably more liquor
was drank there in q day than any
other town Of Its size inathe state. In
political times whisky used to flow In
the streets. The side that could stand
the largest number Of drinks won the
fight. The boys'-Col. Caldwell,
Cen Gregg and others-used to 60 up
from Elmira and hold meetings that
generally ended in glorious drunks.
Why, they laughed at the crusaders,
and thought it good fun. About six
weeks ago one OF the best fellows there
was going along the street one morn
Ing and met another. The first said :.
YOU'RE looking better lately than I've
seen you in q long time.' well, I am
better. Fact Is, 1 haven't been drink
ing anything for about two weeks, and
I've about made up my mind that I'll
stop.' Just what I've been thinking
Of myself. Haven't we been making
damned fools of ourselves long
enough?' Out of such a conversation
IL l. II L. Uav.
Vile was begun. These two, with
few others, sent to Elmira for speakers
for q meeting. Col. Caldwell and an
spoke. Both had been drinking men
gument they urged was the foolishness
Of men spending money for drink.
Men rushed to the platform and sign
ed, and the next day they were heard.
Of speakingin some adjoining town.
After their meeting in Van Ettenville
q number of sthe-boys went to the pro-
prietor of the hotel. They had gone
there many times after other meetings
and spoiled all the liquor he had;
but this time, after little talk with
him, He fell right in with them, sign
ed-the pledge. shut his bar, and every
pelsor connected with the house sign
edS To-day hardly drinking man is
lef there"
NWatkins people" Florence Sulli-j
van said, "suppOsed that pretty much
all the drinking men had signed last
week, but last Wednesday night we
took in the gleanfngs, 98 Of them, in
clndlng such men as Commodore Foot
and Capt. Cass, and Watkins hasn't
any drinkers left" In Tiogx county,
Pa, it Is the same story. The tipplers
rebelled successfully, and 1t is this that
surprised the bar-keepers-those who
do not Buccumb themselves-just as 1t
surprises the ministers and 'prohibi-
tionists. In Tioga 78 men who drank
hard for 80 years went up in body
and signed, and many of these had
been instrumental in beginning the
movement. In Morris Run every
shut his shop and worked
with his former customers to induce
those who held off to sign. II
A drummer for q house in William
street, New York, told me that he had
just come from trip through the oil
region. IA man can't get q drink In
most of the places" he said. i've
been on the road for ten years, and my
customers, generally, are ready to take
after a sale but they ali re-
fused me this trip. It would have been
hard work to get anything to drink
If we wanted It. 1 60 loaded, "he said,
touching his breast. pooket," but some
of the boys are damning right and left
because they can't get a cocktail when
they want IL down there. % In the
southern tier I find we can buy liquor
If we want It, but nobody wants to
drink with us. Queer, hh,t it"
In these two regions the badge Of
the movement Is q blue ribbon on the
breast, sometimes, ,with-e medallion Of
Murph y4on II but.oat II Indianapolis
and adjacent places, where there IL q
revival Of less strength than the one
weI have borrowed Prescriptions of
above, they wear a red ribbon and
further east ON the Evie railrpad the
badge is o pink ribbon; with Q amedal-
lion Of Winchester. the local apostle,