{"id":1838,"date":"2024-04-19T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T19:13:49","slug":"francis-murphys-path-to-temperance-published-sep-30-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/francis-murphys-path-to-temperance-published-sep-30-1883\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Murphy&#8217;s Path to Temperance [published Sep. 30, 1883]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-15-182249.png?resize=504%2C519&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1839\" style=\"width:98px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-15-182249.png?w=504&amp;ssl=1 504w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-15-182249.png?resize=291%2C300&amp;ssl=1 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Temperance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Francis Murphy, like all the big temperance men, like Gough and the rest, has been through \u201cthe mill\u201d himself, and has had a terrible experience of his own. He alluded to it the other night, at the reception, but he didn&#8217;t go into some particulars, which are familiar to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6.-Francis-Murphy-speaking-at-Cooper-Union.jpg?resize=640%2C368&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1840\" style=\"width:554px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6.-Francis-Murphy-speaking-at-Cooper-Union.jpg?w=740&amp;ssl=1 740w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6.-Francis-Murphy-speaking-at-Cooper-Union.jpg?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Francis Murphy speaking at Cooper Union, New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The farmer for whom Murphy worked a while in this State was one of the \u201cclosest\u201d specimen of a man in money matters the country can produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He was liberal in the way of \u201ctime.\u201d He told Murphy when he engaged him that he must do a certain specified amount of work each day. But then \u201cthere was nothin\u2019 mean about him.\u201d He would give Murphy plenty of time to do it all in. He might take his over time; in fact, he might take all his time. He might work from mornin\u2019 till midnight, in fact, if he wanted to. He might work all the time he wanted\u2013eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, if he chose. The farmer wouldn&#8217;t say a word. The only thing he was particular about would be that Murphy should do all the work and should do it only for his clothes and \u201ckeep.\u201d Such a way of \u201cgivin\u2019 time\u201d was hardly appreciated by Murphy at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He was set to work at drivin\u2019 in cattle among other things, and didn&#8217;t know how to do it; for it takes a certain act to drive oxen, just like anythin\u2019 else. So the farmer pitched into him, and the rest of the farm-hands made fun of him. But Murphy was shrewd and turned the tables on the farm-hands. He watched and came to the conclusion that the men and boys around the place must have first established friendly relations with the cattle, and after that the matter must have been easy. So he determined to establish friendly relations with the livestock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One day, as Murphy himself once told the story, he got into the barn where there was a long row of ears of corn hangin\u2019 on one side. \u201cWhile nobody was lookin\u2019,\u201d he said, \u201cI stuffed my pockets full of those ears of corn and went into the yard where the oxen were, and held out a great handsome yellow ear of corn to Old Buck, (the boss ox). Buck gave me a queer look out of his great, soft eyes, as much as to say he hadn&#8217;t forgotten the beatin\u2019 I gave him the other day; but I kept creepin\u2019 up closer and closer and holdin\u2019 out the corn till I felt sure I had got his attention, and then I stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cOld Buck turned his big head a little on one side, gave a shake of the ears, rattled the hoof of one hind leg, and then inquired by a look which had something of doubt in it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201c\u2018Is this for me?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201c\u2018It is,\u2019 said I, in return by a look and by stretchin\u2019 out the ear of corn still closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThen he came a step toward me, reached out his great red tongue, half as long as your arm, and I reached out the ear of corn, and after that I never had any more trouble with the oxen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Murphy has always said that this little experience with the oxen has laid the foundation of his success as a lecturer. \u201cIt was kindness that conquered the oxen, and it is kindness that conquers the man.\u201d Murphy has never believed in yellin\u2019 at or denouncin\u2019 men that drink too much rum (or sell rum, either), but he talks to \u2018em pleasantly, gives \u2018em a smile, a kind word, and a ribbon, and wins over the men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Portrait-of-Francis-Murphy.jpg?resize=487%2C588&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1841\" style=\"width:269px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Portrait-of-Francis-Murphy.jpg?w=487&amp;ssl=1 487w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Portrait-of-Francis-Murphy.jpg?resize=248%2C300&amp;ssl=1 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Francis Murphy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In after years Murphy got along very well as a rumseller, and would have made and kept plenty of money if he had kept what was called \u201cthe rumsellers\u2019 pledge,\u201d which several people in his neighborhood kept faithfully. This rumsellers\u2019 pledge was the simplest kind of a thing, consistin\u2019 of only two points: first, to sell all the rum you could to anybody else; second, never to take any rum yourself. But Murphy soon got to be his own best customer and went down hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He got into a row over his liquor one day in his low groggery, was arrested for aggravated assault and sent to jail. And durin\u2019 his life in jail, his poor wife and family passed through terrible afflictions. He had seven children and nothin\u2019 to keep \u2018em alive on. The two oldest boys stopped goin\u2019 to school and went round trampin\u2019 to see if they couldn&#8217;t get odd jobs to keep themselves and their mother alive. They couldn&#8217;t get any jobs, so they did without food, but for a while they managed to keep the stove a-goin\u2019. There was a heap of cinders down on the wharf and they used to go down to sift out coal for \u201cmother&#8217;s fire.\u201d But an employee of the steamboat company drove the boys away, and after that they all went cold as well as hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For awhile, wretchedly poor as they were, the family used to manage to rake up money enough to pay their car fare to see Murphy in prison once a week; but the time came when they hadn&#8217;t any money even for car fare, and had to go some ten miles on foot to see their father in jail. One day when there was only one piece of bread in the house for the whole family, although they were all hungry, they all resolved to go without eatin\u2019 anythin\u2019, and one of the boys trudged wearily along this ten miles to carry to his father in prison the only piece of bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On the night after receivin\u2019 that piece of bread which he had eaten up before he had learned its history, Francis Murphy tried to commit suicide in jail\u2013and no wonder. He went mad with grief at thinkin\u2019 over the condition of his family, and that he had himself brought \u2018em to the state. He went mad, I say, awhile, and havin\u2019 no other way to end his life, tried to beat himself against his cell wall, but was prevented by his jailers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When at last Francis Murphy was released from jail he found himself a free\u2013pauper. Of his home there remained only the four walls\u2013all the furniture had gone for debt or bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And although his devoted wife put her arms around his neck on his return from jail, and said she was glad to see him, she was too sick to smile, she was too sick to stand up, she was too sick to live, and three months or so after his return she died of insufficient nourishment and a broken heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was at his dead wife&#8217;s side, with her cold, still hand in his, that Francis Murphy took his pledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2.-Old-Home-Christian-Temperance-Union-Card-768x481-1.jpg?resize=640%2C401&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1842\" style=\"width:744px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2.-Old-Home-Christian-Temperance-Union-Card-768x481-1.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2.-Old-Home-Christian-Temperance-Union-Card-768x481-1.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Francis Murphy, like all the big temperance men, like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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