Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-02-20
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
contributed BY Ladies Of Washington Temper
ance Union-I
5onn 3. cough An London.
THR1rLrSa SPEECH BY A NAN IN FUsT1AN
ANDr CORDUROY.

etEcE one budH 4 C2sn GAyC YOus anu 7
lerefore will repeat it. Ispoke to an t
udienee of eight hundred Of the hardest i
len ever came across in my life. Well, i
was just like, if you threw a joke at I
lem-on, dear meI-it was like stone
D a bed Of mud You could not move
hem to laughter, or tears, or anything
lse. There they sat, as much as to say,
What are you going to do next? All were
like. I sat down very much discouraged,
nd the chairman said to me:
5 'sNOW, Mr.. Cough, il you have no OBJ
ectiOn, should like to ask man to
,ome on this platform. You think these
people have no enthusiasm, but you will
ind that they have. You have not yet
seen them. There is man here who can
not read or write, but who knows great
deal Of the Scriptures, and who breaches
derfully-hundreds go to hear him.
If you have no objection, and would like
him to come on the platform, You will see |
how he can move the audience"
I said, COLLECTION 1 should be delighted |
to hear him. So up he came, in fustian |
jacket and corduroy trousers. he had
not washed the dirt from his eyes-he had
been in the mine-he had just given him
self splash and a dash. He had good
honest eve. And what do you suppose
was the first thing he said?
ssHow do ye do. lads? The gentleman
asked me to come on the platform because
he thOught yon would like to have look
at me. haYe no objection; you may
look at me-. Don't you see how fat am
getting2 dOesn' drink no beer neither,
like you. Look at me. bean't ashamed.
NV elbows bean't sticking out of my jack
ct, and my toes bean't sticking out Of my
boots. And viii tell you, have got
clean shirt on, and I gets one on once
week; and, by the look of some of you,
you don't get one once week.
srYou may look at me, if you like.
bean't ashamed if you do. 1 say, lads,
have made change. have changed
beer for bread, and brandy for beef, and I
have changed gin for good cIOthes-they
are pretty good ones, though they be
shOrt-skirted-and have changed rum
for happy wife and comfortable home.
Ny wife does not lie no longer on a lot of
rotten rags, an d my children don't run
no more in the streets, learning devils
tricks. have made a change. You re-
member the old song we used to sing
sswhen man buys beef, he buys bsnes;
when aman pays plaSt, ne GgyS sTI9Snes;
when man buys drink, he buys nothing else"
Ain'tit trueG
Gay, lads, that's all true, and every one
Of you knows it, and they began to
shout, 81 urrahl hurrah l''-every one OF
/ them 81 don't want you to hurrah.
| didn't come here for any hollering. ]
will tell you what did the first night,
when I put my name on the temperance
pledge. / went home and told my missis,
and that frightened her up bit. Then
took my children out of the gutter
Then got out of the den was living in
and took a house--a two-rOomed house
am householder now.
''My children goes to school, and pay.
a penny a week for each Of them, and
they are going to be better educated than
their father was. And then thought
was going to cut dash, and did, but I'll
never do 1t again. I got black pair Of
trousers, a canary-colored waisteoat and
jacket to match, and then got a stiff hat
And I'll be blowed if itwasn't stiff 'un
and then 1 strutted up and down, ant
when the people that knowed me afor'
seed me, blowed if they was not purified
every one of them.''
WHAT DICK AND TOM DID.
'sNow, look here, don't want none 0
your hOIlering; want to make this her
speech-what some of the learned gentle
men call a practical speech. There's Die
oUer there. Go it, Dick. He bobbed hi
E head down when I said Dick Every
, boGy knows Dick. He has just the han
( of man and the heart of woman. Dick
G Everybody knows Dick. Why, he woul
9 share his last crust with brother pi
man, and tend his tools to his broth.
! workman ifhe knowed he'd pawn the
the next day. Dick knows it. He is a
honest, big-hearted man. But why d
Dick bob his head down when sal,
. sDick?'
HDick, my lad, you knows me and
knows you. / want to ask you a que
= ton. Do you remember that bitter NJ
i vember night, when the wind was driviu
the sleet through the thick clothes of
man, you sent your little girl out, an
3 she had but one garment, and that WI
hanging about her bare legs, and VI
st st sent her with blacking bottle, and 81
Y could hardly stand and put the blackiT
i bottle on the counter, and you sent h
Df Df with a silver sixpence for gin; and the
was your half-starving wife lying on Il
door with new born babe wailing
her sideP All, Dick, that was bad. Isl
ID bad Was it Dick did it that nigh
3 3 No, it aoas the cursed drink. Down wi
: the drink and up with the mani That
z: my motto.
ae s'And there's Tom, there, just like Die
r Tom bobbed his head down when 1 sa
3 sTom.' All, Tom he's just such anoth
as Dick. Everybody knows him. I wa
to ask you a question, Tom. What d
you promise the lassie when you took h
le away from her mothers home? Did n
y you promise to love her, and cherish h {
~ and protect her? Have you done it, Ton
Who gied herstw black eyes three wee
since? Who thrust her down the stail
and tore the flesh from wrist to elbo1
= and she covered the place over with h
apron, and told people lies to shield yol
"Ah, that's bad, lads. Was it Tom tn
\ struck womagP Was it Tom that thr'
his wife down the stafrs2 No, it aoas
= cursed drink that did it. Down with t
drink and up with the man! That's n
doctrine. I say, lads, do you want
G smooth the wrinkles out of your wife
face. like you smooth out the wrinkles.
a sheet with a smoothing ironP I hav
Put your name on the pledgei That wi
p do it. 1 say, Dick Dick is comingf sDi