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this moment-and it has been growing ever since the
first three months were over, when people ·were blinded
by its presumption, or frightened by its rashness-there
· is more intemperance and more drinking in this city (Bangor)
and neighborhood than there has been at any other time for
twenty years. Young men have banded together in clubs to
evade the law. Travelers have brought liquor with them to our
public houses. Children carry liquor flasks about with them and
bottles are made in the shape of Bibles so bound as to deceive
the eye.
A Layman's Argument,
1853.
LITTLE LILY'S SPEECH
I
AM
a little Temperance girl,
Just five years old.
I wouldn't drink a glass of wine
If
you'd fill the cup with gold!
I have a little brother ,
We belong to the Band of Hope;
And we'll soon be great big Temperance folks,
Oh! won't that be so grand.
When there's not a drunkard to be seen'?
For, don't you think it's ·queer,
The first thing drunkards seem to drink
Is cider, wine, and beer.
Templar Crusaders,
1873.
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