Word: lumbermen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of total abstinence was first brought to his attention when 19 years of age, while tramping through the Maine woods. The lumbermen refused to allow any of their number to take any liquor of any kind with them into the woods. It was a measure of self preservation. In the log drives the most perfect control of every faculty was necessary, and the lumbermen would not permit themselves to be at the mercy of any one man who might wish to indulge himself. He was obliged to sacrifice his own pleasure to the safety of the majority. All employers...