When the fact was made known, the workmen were so startled by it that they helped to make the place a no-license town.

The times would not be so "hard" for the workmen if the saloons did not take in so much of their wages.

If they would organize a strike against the saloons, they would find the result to be better than an increase of wages, and to include an increase of savings.
How often we might read the following sign over the threshold of a youthful life: "For sale, grand opportunities, for a song;" "golden chances for beer;" "magnificent opportunities exchanged for a little sensual enjoyment;" "for exchange, a beautiful home, devoted wife, lovely children, for drink;" "for sale, cheap, all the magnificent possibilities of a brilliant life, a competence, for one chance in a thousand at the gambling table;" "for exchange, bright prospects, a brilliant outlook, a cultivated intelligence, a college education, a skilled hand, an observant eye, valuable experience, great tact, all exchanged for rum, for a muddled brain, a bewildered intellect, a shattered nervous system, poisoned blood, a diseased body, for fatty degeneration of the heart, for Bright's disease, for a drunkard's liver." With almost palsied hand, at a temperance meeting, John B.Gough signed the pledge.

For six days and nights in a wretched garret, without a mouthful of food, with scarcely a moment's sleep, he fought the fearful battle with appetite.

Weak, famished, almost dying, he crawled into the sunlight; but he had conquered the demon which had almost killed him.
Gough used to describe the struggles of a man who tried to leave off using tobacco.