It never occurred to him, however, that there might be reason in the opinions of others.

Finding, however, that he could not get the better of Bright in any other way, he organized a company and set up an opposition tavern, where a traveller could feel at home and have none of the annoyances of beer.

The new inn was to be conducted on strictly temperance principles, and the price of board was to be reduced a dollar a week.

But the principle of temperance was carried out so rigidly in the fare that travellers, although treated politely enough, found it difficult to get anything to eat, to say nothing of drink.
While this was going on Mrs.Bigelow Chapman was busying herself getting up an anti-tea-and-coffee-drinking society.

She declared that this coffee and tea-drinking was nothing less than an oppression, breaking down people's health and making them poor, while the grocers who sold the stuff were getting rich.