FIFTY YEARS HISTORY OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.
By J.E. Stebbins.
Intemperance: The Great National Curse, Threatening the Purity and Stability of our Institutions, Secular and Religious: the Fruitful Source of Poverty, Misery, Crime and Degradation of the Individual and Family. Describing the Process of Manufacturing Liquors; Poisonous Ingredients Used in Adulteration; Official Reports of Revenue Receipts From its Sale. Historical Sketch of the Various Means Adopted for its Suppression Through Legislation, Open and Secret Temperance Societies; Washingtonians; Good Templars; Good Samaritans; Daughters of Samaria, etc.,
from the First Organized Society to the Present Time. By J.E. Stebbins.
click the small photos to view larger photos
With a full description of the origin and progress of the
new plan of labor by the women up to the present time by T.A.H. Brown.
click the small photos to view larger photos
ILLUSTRATED, sold by agents only. Hartford, 1874. 6 x 8-1/2, 500 pages.
Bound in green cloth, stamped in gold.
Chapters include: Intemperance-The Nation's Curse, Social and Religious Outlook,
The Origin of the Evil,
Probability of Reform
, Blighting Effects Upon Society,
Temperance Workers,
Temperance Societies, etc.
The second part of the book is entitled WOMEN'S TEMPERANCE CRUSADE and discusses the origin and spread of the women's movement; stressing THE POWER OF PRAYER.
Numerous illustrations. The front cover inscription is from
Proverbs 23:32,
At the last it biteth like a Serpent and stingeth like an Adder.