But there is another point of comparison.

The men who wrestled with each other in that early conflict verily thought they were right.

They may have been mistaken, but they thought they were in the right; they therefore maintained their own self-respect.

But those who have died in this battle of the bottles and the beer glasses have lost everything--self-respect, reputation, honor, everything; and they went to the dogs and their souls went to perdition.
I have been a somewhat voluminous writer on many subjects now for forty years, but all this would scarce exceed in amount what I have written in Kansas newspapers, during a series of years, on the single subject of temperance.

Besides, I spent much time in lecturing, for the welfare of the church and of the nation was at stake; and yet, what was done by myself was only a drop in the bucket compared with what went to make up, year after year, a great agitation.