The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-06
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members, the National Temperance
League, the British, the Scotch, the
Irish and the United Kingdom Tenn
perance alliances, and hosts of others.
We want this organization here, and
then see the stride it would make"
"How long have you been work.
ing for this cause now 2"
"Forty-two years last October.
For eighteen years | spoke on moth
ing but temperance, but since 1860 /
have lectured on various other sub
jects. | always make it a point,
though, to introduce total abstinence
into my talk somewhere. Since re-
turning from England in 1860 | have
lectured on temperance 967 times.
London has been delivered 2S4
times London by Night 33 Here
and There in Britain 10; 'Eloquence
and Orators 263; Peculiar People,
422; Fact and Fiction IA = Habit,
l73; Curiosity 201 circumstances
25I ; 'Will 1t Pay?' Ill; Now and
Them 1872; 'BIunders,' 147; The
| Powers that Be- 49,"
"Tnen you have travelled consider
able 2"
"Up till last July [ had travelled
1884, miles. | have been three
times in Europe--0nce in 1858. re-
turning in 1855 ; then 1857 until 1860,
and in 1878 and 10. In the Unit, d
Kingdom alone | have travelled ST.
600 miles, and during the first five
years in London spoke ninety eight
times in Exeter hall.n
"Have you any method of prepar-
ing your lectures ?"
you know L received no educa-
ton, and since | was 10 years old [
never went to a school of any kind.
My lectures are not orations. Every
single sentence could be criticised. [
am keen observer, and, if working
on a new lecture, | think it out while
travelling, and it becomes as it were
Crystalized on my mind, and when [
haYe observed enough / give it to the
public. When in London | spoke so
frequently on temperance that l ran
dry of anecdotes, and to get fresh
supply | used at night to often go
around the worst Slums in company
with detectives, and so get my illus
trations from real life. Although l
said | gave, say, the lecture on Lon.
don 2S4 times, | guarantee it was diff
ferent each time, and that I have
never given the same lecture twice
oyer. They are like an umbrella l
gave my niece some five years ago.
She liked it so that it has been recOY-
cred, had new handle. new stick,
and all the ribs replaced but one, yet
she says | gave her that umbrella,
although there is only one rib of the
original. So with the lectures, the
I subject is all that remains in fact"
"Do you feel at all fatigued by
working so hard ?"
81 do great deal. | am 6S years
of age now, and it tells on me con-
siderably. So much that | have de-
cided not to travel any more at night,
and if an engagement can't be filled
without travelling at night it will
have to be dropped"
care you a prohibitionist ?"
81 am, but not like number of
people. | do not believe in forcing
prohibition bill on the people sud-
denly. | would work up to it do all
that is possible to hinder the sale of
liquor by such bills as the Sunday
closing, local option, and so lead up
to the principal measure. 1t is no
good forcing a measure on the people
that the public sentiment is against.
You might just as well pass law to
lngalize theft as to pass prohibition
measure the people are not in favor
of. | think the measures taken to
license the sale of liquors in this city
on Sunday disgrace to New York.
What do they do it for? Does the
community derive any benefit from
it? Not the least. Why, do you
know DR.. Andrew Clarke says the
first teaspoonful of liquor taken into
a healthy body does it harm pm.
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