. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. oj .2 x ~- X ^ s « 3> oon £. - a; [/);§.■ oU THE WOMANS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 151 fellow he was, but, when it became clear to him that, if he did his wholeduty, he must ask for the enforcement of the law, he no longer whole nature absorbed the soul of the nation-wide movement againstthe saloon—and in his little, obscure village he resolved to play the partof a reformer. He is too modest to tell his own story. His little letter tothe editor of this book shows that he h
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. oj .2 x ~- X ^ s « 3> oon £. - a; [/);§.■ oU THE WOMANS CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION. 151 fellow he was, but, when it became clear to him that, if he did his wholeduty, he must ask for the enforcement of the law, he no longer whole nature absorbed the soul of the nation-wide movement againstthe saloon—and in his little, obscure village he resolved to play the partof a reformer. He is too modest to tell his own story. His little letter tothe editor of this book shows that he had no thought of note, when he be-gan agitation for suppression of the saloons in his village. Two saloon-keepers, who, by common consent, had violated the closing hour law, werearrested and fined. Resenting this interference, they threatened the lifeof the Loyal Temperance Legion boy—but did not cow him. He knewthat the saloonkeepers were cowards, that saloonkeepers had killed RoderickDhu Gambrell and George C. Haddock and Judge Cox and Dr. Beall. Hewas not bullet proof, but he and his Legion
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