societies broke up and vanished. In place of a move- ance movement in America. Mind you, I say temper- beverages, following this up with the demand for the 152 we have any record. from the use of ardent spirits and to use for stimulat- Opinions of Early Statesmen. ance movement, in this case, not anti-drink movement. Success of the Original Temperance Movement. the first temperance society on this hemisphere of which temperance movement, but the reverse, and the old ginning of the second century of the organized temper- For nearly half a century the temperance movement movement in the true sense of the term. The mem- pledge into one of -total abstinence from all alcoholic town of Moreau in Saratoga County, N. Y., started continued along that line, and its success was marked. more senses than one. About the middle of last century the total abstainers It is not only the beginning of a new year, but the be- This movement as first begun was a temperance prohibition of them by law. It was now no longer a bers of Clark's society pledged themselves to abstain It was on April 13, 1808, that Dr. Billy J. Clark, in the secured control of the movement, and first turned the ing beverages beer and mild wines. ment which had materially assisted the social move-