Beauchamp, Lou J. Sunshine written in the interest of Temperance, Sunshine and Good Humor, for the Drunkard, the Drunkard Maker and the Drunkard Saver. Hamilton, O.: Albert Dix, 1887. Fifth Edition. [11852]
Russet cloth with blind & gilt stamping, very slight edge-wear, small light blue paint or ink blotches on the spine, 7 x 5 1/2 inches, joints good, tight. Former owner's ink name stamps on the front end papers. Wood-engraved portrait of the author as frontispiece. 319 clean pp. Good. Hardcover.
Twenty-six chapters on the evils of alcohol and its production.
Includes the chapters "Woman's Right to the Ballot," "How to Conduct Temperance Meetings," and "Revivals, Camp Meetings, etc."
Lois Jenks Beauchamp (1851-1920), b. Cincinnati, Ohio; d. Milford, Iowa; called "The Apostle of Sunshine" for his Temperance lectures. Beauchamp started his career as a newspaperman in Cincinnati, but after falling into and recovering from drink he began a brilliant career on the lecture circuit for the cause of Temperance. He was a leader in the Chautauqua movement, and he was remembered as "one of the greatest powers that the platform exerted. He was even talked of for President as a Prohibition candidate. It was probably as an orator, organizer and leader of his moral force that he did his greatest work." - obituary.
