The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-21
of fare were the most numerous and
the largest. At the ordination of a
pastor over the South society of Hart
ford the following was consumed;


ford the following was consumed;
Two mugs toddy, Is. 4d.; 3 bitters.
Cd; 3 breakfasts, IS. 3D.; Is bowls punch,
10s.; IL bottles wine IS. Cd; 5 mugs
flip, IS. 10d.; 3 bowls punch, 6s; 3 bowls
toddy, IS. Cd; "a dinners, 24s. 15d
Total, fS IS. lid.
Before the year 1926 temperance agi-
tation related only to spirits, while wine,
beer, ale. and cider were regarded as
harmless. An impetus was given to
the temperance movement in 1926 by
the organization in Boston of the
American Temperance society. In the
same year The National Philanthropist,
weekly temperance paper, was started
in Boston. According to the ''Centen-
NAL Temperance Volume" published
in 1881, 80, 900 had pledged themselves
in 1927 to abstain from the use Of ard
ent spirits, many distilleries had closed,
and so energetically was the work
carried on in 1928 and 1929 that at the
end of the latter year four hundred
merchants had relinquished the traffic
in liquor, fifty distilleries had closed,
the number of societies had increased
to one thousand, eleven of them being
state societies, and their pledged mem
bers to 10000 of whom twelve hun
dred had been drunkards. The 22d of
February, 1929, was set apart as day
of fasting and prayer on account Of
temperance, being the first of the kind
on record. In January of the same
year the New York State Temperance
society was organized. From 1929
until 1881 the temperance movement
gradually gained strength, until in 1881
there We're state societies in all of the
states excepting five, and 2,200 local
societies, with 10000 members. In
New York state at this time there were
75O societies. The great temperance
convention of America in Philadelphia,
there being 400 delegates present, re-
presenting nineteen states and one
territory. In 1882 or 1888 temperance
was made political issue in Massachu-
sets, and no license became the law in
the part of the state where the Pilgrims
landed. In 1888 the legislature of
Massachusetts, prohibited the sale of
liquors in less quantities than fifteen
gallons. In 1888 Mississippi enacted a
.'one-gallon' law. At this time there
were fifteen journals in the United
States and Canada advocating total alb
Stinence.
Ia the same year public attention was
first called to the necessity for inebriate
asylums by DR.. J. B. Woodward. 1t is
asserted by temperance authorities that
i'll 1881 the quantity of spirits con-
sumed in he United States was seventy
millions of gallons by twelve million
of people, while in 1910 with seventeen
million of people. the amount consumed
was only forty-three million gallons.
Through the influence of Washington
ians. or reformed drunkards, beginning
with the year 1910, it was estimated
that 10000 intelnperate men signed
the pledge. Next came, in 1912. the
organization of the Sons of Temper
ance. During the same year the Inde-
pendent Order of Rechabites was intro
duced into this country from England.
John b. Cough made his appearance in
Worcester. Mass, in 1912. The Tenn
plars of Honor and Temperance made
their first efforts to reform the drunkard
in 1915. Large temperance conven-
tons were held in Maine, New Hamp-
shire. Massachusetts and Connecticut in
the same year, and the New York state
Legislature passed bill giving to the
people the decision of the license ques-
ton. In 1876 the Order of the Cadets
of Temperance was established in
Pennsylvania, and in the following year
the Order of Good Samaritans in this
city.
On June 30. 1s49, Father Mathew
landed and talked temperance in this
country for sixteen months. He then
returned to Ireland. He died within a
month after reaching his home. In
1851 the Order of Good Templars was
organized This society is now the
largest temperance order in the world.
having more than 100000 members.
In 1851 democratic legislature in
Maine passed prohibitory law.
Perhaps the most exciting event in
temperance agitation was that of the
woman S crusade, which began at Hills
boro, O., on Dec. %, 1873. Saloons
were closed in 25O towns and villages in
that state. The outcome of the crusade
was the formation of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance union.
During 1888 Miss Frances Willard visit
cd every state and territory from Puget
sound to the Gulf of Mexico. and, with
the help of the pioneer trips of Mrs.
Clement Leavitt in California, of Mrs.
S. +. Chaplin in the south, and of Mrs.
Mary +. Shields in Wyoming, New
Mexico, and Arizona, organized this So
ciety by states and territories through
out the United States. Mrs. Leavitt is
now on journey around the world.
engaged in an effort ''to belt the globe
with the white ribbon of the w. c. r.
u The society has membership of
l29. 900.
The National Temperance Society
and Publication House was established
in this city in 1865. The first publica-
ton of the society, outside of its month
ly paper, was four-page tract written
by Rev. DIR. Cuyler. entitled "a Shot at
the Decantcr.' The first book was
published in May, 1866. More than
400 different publications are now
turned out by this house, and temper
ance is considered in all its phases by
$50 writers. 1t costs $4,000 a year
to support the society, and it has never
had day of relief from financial en-
barrassment. Corresponding Secretary
Stearns says: There is no steady
source from whence financial aid comes.
People shout and sing and pray, but
when the contributicn-boXcomes around
the enthusiasm vanishes. In a recent
speech in Brooklyn Hen. J. B. Finck,
of Illinois, said that in 1880 the liquor
business Of this country was in the hands
of church members. and that there was
church in Cortland county, in this
state, whose timbers were lifted into
place by four gallons Of rum. AS an
instance of the change in public senti-
ment since that time he added that,
although he was well acquainted with
the ministers in Illinois, he did not know
one who was not Il total abstainer. He
remembered, however, travelling with