Fifty years history of the temperance cause : intemperance the great national curse, threatening the purity and stability of our institutions, secular and religious : the frutiful source of poverty, misery, crime, and degradation of the individual and family : describing the process of manufacturing liquors, poisonous ingredients used in adulteration, official reports of revenue receipts from its sale : historical sketch of the various means adopted for its suppression through legislation, open and secret temperance societies, Washingtonians, good templars, good samaritans, Daughters of Samaria, etc., from the first organized society to the present time : carefully prepared from the most reliable and eminent authorities / by J.E. Stebbins (author of Moses and the prophets, Christ and the apostles, Fathers and martyrs, Glory of the immortal life, etc.) ; with a full description of the origin and progress of the new plan of labor by the women up to the present time by T.A.H. Brown (reporter for the Cincinnati gazette, who has been constantly in the field).