The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-09-23
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The True Place of Temperance Work

Aho AEuc 1lcc Oi temperance W f0Eks
We do not think the true position
of Temperance reformers has ever
been more forcibly expressed than by
John B. Cough in his address at
Chautauqua, of which the following
constituted the closing remarks:
"Our principle of total abstinence
has been a great agency in removing
the hindrance to mems hearing the
truth. We have had wonderful evi-
dences in the past few years, and
there have been evidences of it scat
tered all through the many deeds Of
this temperance work. Let me give
you a fact. In the borough OF Dun
dee, in Scotland, the Right Honorable
Lord Kinnaird and his lady, who were
real phiIanthrophists, asked me if I
would address an audience of outcasts.
and said, If you can get me such
an audience 1 viii speak to them
They said, %, We will get you such
an audience. The town missionaries
viii bring in such an audience if you
will give US a night We named Sat
urday night. On that Saturday night
1 faced an audience Of eight hundred
men and women. You never saw an
audience of outcasts, rags and filth,
and it seemed as if the last lingering
trace of human beauty had been dash
ed out by the hoef of debauchery the
image of God wiped out with the die
Of Satan stamped in its place. It is
an awful sight to see eight hundred
men and women in such q degraded
condition, mentally and physically.
When We came in, the Rev. Alexan-
der Hanna, who came in with George
Ruff, the Provost Of the borough, said
to me: you have fire in the house to-
night Said I: What doyou mean?'
Said he DO you see that tall woman
seated by the platformP Is,id: Yes.
Said he:
HER NAME IS IIELL-FIRE.
She is known by no other name in the
vicinity OF her residence. She is the
most abandoned woman in the city ot
Dundee. Fifty six times she has been
arrested, and there is no policeman on
the force can take her. She is a strong
muscular woman, and hits right ans
left, and sometimes it viii take three
men to drag her before me, with tht
blood streaming down her face anC
the power Of her tongue in biasphem!
is so awful that men who can stani
almost any amount Of it VII run away
Now if she is in humor you viii se'
such row tonight as you never saP
before in your life. expected Il row
and did not ike it, and as 1 saw tn,
countenances of these men and womel
1 expected trouble, so began TO tall
to them easily and pleasantly, toll
them what 1 believed God meant the,
should be, what l believed they were
what I believed they might be. As
went on talking, not as to brutcs. no
things, nor beasts, I saw a naked arr
? and hand raise and somebody erie
out 90, my God, man that Is a
t truep The woman got on her feet
: she waved her naked arm and hand I
the audience, and she said it was a
e true, every word Of i was true. Wke
[ sat down she got on the platform.
y did not know but what sho was goin
to tackle ne. did not like the look
= Of the woman. did not like 10 con
y i'll contact with such strong minde
= women, l assure you, and she locke
at me with her hands on her hip
We'll, take & good look at me, maj
I am bit Of beauty, aren't l? Al
as she stepped forward, ! stepped bacl
r did not like it. She said, Take
# good look at me,' and I do not kno
y rs I ever came face to face with q mo
. b~azen-faced woman in my life. Pre-
r emily she made one swift step, III
% came so near me that her breath "
all in my face, hot, reelling with stroI
10 drink. Said she 4: Would you give
body like me the pledge? 'YC
,e ma'am.' One of these very prude
e men came up to me and said Dor
n no, no, ne don't give her the pledS
20 Why 'She won't keep it.
Sc HOW DO Y0U KNow%
why, she is fooling you; she W
Ii be drunk before she goes to bed
. said, Madam, here is a gentlem
who says # you sign that pledge y
III cannot keep it. 4 can't keep il
ld show me the mani Iaughtor). a
re but said !, Madam, you can keep
IN Can I keep It? If I viii, I ca
Say you viii, thcr;' I Will 90
he me your hand She put her burn
l hand in mine. sign the pledge 5
an 'gned It. It looked like dipping a
ill il the ink and citing it TO run acr
sc The paper. Said 1: Give me "
lot hand again; you viii keep it?'
gil. I said: I Will come and See
IN before go back to America 'Co
So, ,,.,l .o,. 80 Oh, ,.o,, viii 7 Will k