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