The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-01-22

cans death was dOuDly SAD, IN that
his wife had answered the last sum-
mons only three days previously, her
body being laid to rest Tuesday after
noon.-Barnwell People.
step towards prohibition, the forerun-
ner of numerous organizations found
ed later for dethroning King Alcohol.
Not many years afterward the Amer
lean Society for the Promotion of
Temperance was organized in Bos-
ton.
First Temperance Convention.
Following the organization of the
Congressional Temperance society in
Washington, the first national tenn
perance convention met in Philadel-
phia in 1888. Next year congress en-
acted a law forbidding the sale of
liquor to Indians under $500 penalty.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
in Philadelphia at that time also de-
clared against the liquor traffic. Neal
Dow, the father of prohibition in
Maine," organized the Maine Temper
ance Union in 1887 and in 1889
Connecticut invented "local option"
by leaving the licensing of saloons
to the towns themselves.
Inauguration of the Washingtoniah
Movement was announced in 1910
and within a year it reported 1905
signers of the pledge. In 1912 Abra-
ham Lincoln addressing the Wash
ingtonian society of Springfield, ILL.,,
urged "a temperance revolution" The
next year Oregon passed prohibi-
tory law but repealed it in 1S4S. IL
1S43 John B. Cough, "arch foe of
intemperance," began to lecture in
Massachusetts, for rs cents night.
Two years later, 'ensnared by trick
of his enemies" he became intoxi-
Gated but continued his campaign
against drink both at home and
abroad.
The Democratic legislature OF
Maine in 1916 enacted a prohibitory
law. In 1S4S the Methodist Episcopal
church forbade members buying.
selling or drinking intoxicants. -
Father Matthew, the renowned Catho-
lie temperance advocate, arrived from
Ireland in 1849 and began his pledge
signing crusade throughout the Unit
ed States. A riot over the license
question in Chicago called out the
militia in 1855. Prohibitory laws
which had been passed in several
states were repealed and in other
cases license amendments made them
Ineffective
President-elect Lincoln in 1850 re-
fused to furnish drinks to the notifl-
cation committee sent on June 19 to
notify him of his election and re-
turned unopen the hampers of wine
and liquors sent to the White House.
In 1861 he sighed an act of congress
''forbidding the selling or giving of
intoxicants to soldiers.'' In 1852
congress repealed the law allowing
gill Of whiskey ration to men in
the navy. Kansas in 1866 passed a
local option and prohibitory law. Ohio
in 1870 passed the Adair law making
the liquor seller and the property
owner Jointly responsible for injury
caused by liquor
Sermon on Subject.
Francis Murphy delivered his first
temperance sermon in 1871 and help
ed to organize the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union of America. Three
years later women actively entered
the crusade for temperance, the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union
being organized on November 10,
1874. Vermont, in 1876, passed a
law declaring saloons to be "nuis-
ances." In 1883 came the era of
high license laws, several states un-
dertaking to control the traffic by
taxation.
In 1884 the third plenary council
of the Roman Catholic prelates at
Baltimore, Nd, declared against the
liquor business. The Protestant Epis-
copal church organized the knights
of Temperance society in 1885 and
similar organizations were formed
by other religious denominations.
In 1886 congress enacted that Gin
struction concerning the effects of al
coholic liquors shall be given in the
schools of the District of Columbia,
in the United States Military and