Excerpt from A Forty Years' Fight With the Drink Demon, or a History of the Temperance Reform as I Have Seen It, and of My Labor in Connection Therewith Had the temperance enterprise, commenced substantially in 1826, received from the American people a support, financial and other wise, commensurate with its importance, and been prosecuted on the plan adopted by its originators, the promise which its early and wonderful successes gave of a speedy triumph would have been realized, and this volume would not have been given to the public, but in place thereof, its author, or some fellow-laborer, would have published, ere this, a more ample and worthy history of one of the grandest achievements of this nineteenth century. The consummation of this great and needful work has been pre vented by a concurrence of causes not generally understood, because not carefully studied; the study, unlike most others, bringing no present and promising no future pecuniary reward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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