, 1896-12-17
QUEER TEMPERANCE PLAN.

VoECIt EN- CftAENSE flLAN.
1T isn't always that money in guam
tfty is productive Of good results" re-
marked a well known temperance
worker and moralist to a Washington
Star reporter.
Il beg your pardon interrupted the
reporter, Il know one of the times and
places when it would be-"
Il think l could name another
laughed the talker: but, Joking aside,
| remember one occasion when a
man with 81, 900, 900 did with it what
never knew a millionaire to do before
or since, and the good he did lives as
gloriously today as it did 40 years ago
when he did it, and it will never die.
1t was in a New England town of about
5000 or 1000 people, largely of the fac,
tory classes and pretty hard to handle
in the matter of liquor drinking. | was
a young man, just beginning the work
that | have been trying to win victories
in ever since. and l found the man who
gave the most valuable assistance was
this millionaire, a man who not only
drank himself. but offered it to persons
at his house, and in other respects was
by no means a man of piety, though ac>
tive in all contributions to charity and
church work
He was a man of 90 or more, and
was popular with the people of the
town OF all classes, seeing that he was
retired and had ample time and money
to make himself on good terms with ev-
erybody. Well, the time came when
we had fight for the control of the
liquor traffic in the town. and, though
we made a game fight, the hosts OF
Satan were against us and we went to
the wall. I felt greatly discouraged.
but the millionaire was as CHEEKY as a
bird in a sunburst, and the next day
after u defeat he called me in and
proposed his plan to meet the new or
der Of things.
1T was only what a rich man could
do, and one who had that kind Of moral
training which does not hesitate at
means, so long as good will come. I
thought as he did about it, though with
many more doubts and fears than he
had. but he never faltered, and within
a weeks time he was the proprietor OF
the handsomest saloon in town in the
best place in town. In addition he had
a bar al near as he could get it to ev>
cry saloon in town. In all Of these
places drinks were sold at half the
price in any other place in town, and,
as they were nice in their appoint
ments, they soon had all the trade.
IN a months time several saloons
had gone to pieces, and as each one
closed its doors my friend shut up his
that was nearest to it and made the
central one handsomer than ever.
Finally he owned the only saloon in
town, and as soon as he got things in
that shape he proposed to the drinkers
to sell stuff at a higher price and turn
the profit all into the poor fund. In
view of the fact that he had no oppo-
sition and was prepared to give liquor
away II another opened in town, he
persuaded the drinkers to do it his
way, and within a years time he had
the entire town salooned by system,
and 1t was the thriftiest and the sober
est town in all New England for 10
years. Then the millionaire died. and
some people began monkeying with his
plan, and the result was an overset, OF
course but he had builded 70 we'll that
even to this day the good is there. and
1t will ever remain"
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