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Four page specimen copy of the Youth\'s Temperance Banner issued by the National Temperance Society and Publication House by Garrigues Bros. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Heavy fold lines and crease lines; edgewear, chipping; pages almost detached.
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TheTemperance movementin the United Stateswas a movement to curb the consumption ofalcoholand had a large influence on American politics and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Drunkard\'s Progress: A lithograph byNathaniel Curriersupporting the temperance movement, January 1846.Early Temperance: 1784-1861[edit]In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, various factors contributed to an epidemic of alcoholism that went hand-in-hand with spousal abuse, family neglect, and chronic unemployment. Americans used to drinking lightly alcoholic beverages like cider \"from the crack of dawn to the crack of dawn\" began ingesting far more alcohol as they drank more of strong, cheap beverages like rum (in the colonial period) and whiskey (in the post-Revolutionary period).[1]Popular pressure for cheap and plentiful alcohol led to relaxedordinanceson alcohol sales.
The Temperance movement sparked to life withBenjamin Rush\'s 1784 tract,An Inquiry Into the Effects of Ardent Spirits Upon the Human Body and Mind, which judged the excessive use of alcohol injurious to physical and psychological health. Apparently influenced by Dr. Rush\'sInquiry, about 200 farmers in aConnecticutcommunity formed a temperance association in 1789 to ban the making ofwhiskey. Similar associations were formed inVirginiain 1800, andNew York Statein 1808.[2]Over the next decade, other temperance organizations were formed in eight states, some being state-wide organizations. The young movement advocated temperance or levelness rather than abstinence. Many leaders of the movement expanded their activities and took positions on observance of theSabbathand other moral issues, and by the early 1820s political in-fighting had stalled the movement.
Some leaders persevered in pressing their cause forward. Americans such asLyman Beecher, who was a Connecticut minister, had started to lecture his fellow citizens against all use of liquor in 1825. TheAmerican Temperance Societywas formed in 1826 and benefited from a renewed interest in religion and morality. Within 12 years it claimed more than 8,000 local groups and over 1,500,000 members. By 1839, 18 temperance journals were being published. Simultaneously, someProtestantandCatholicchurch leaders were beginning to promote temperance. The movement split along two lines in the late 1830s: between moderates allowing some drinking and radicals demanding total abstinence, and between voluntarists relying on moral suasion alone and prohibitionists promoting laws to restrict or ban alcohol. Radicals and prohibitionists dominated many of the largest temperance organizations after the 1830s, and temperance eventually became synonymous with prohibition.
The Civil War dealt the movement a crippling blow. Temperance groups in the South were then weaker than their Northern counterparts and too voluntarist to gain any statewide prohibition law, and the few prohibition laws in the North were repealed by the war\'s end. Both sides in the war made alcohol sales a part of the war effort by taxing brewers and distillers to finance much of the conflict. The issue of slavery crowded out temperance and temperance groups petered out until they found new life in the 1870s.[3]
Temperance Theatre[edit]Temperance birthed an entire genre of theatre. This was first seen in 1825, asThe Forgers, a dramatic poem written by John Blake White, premiered at the Charleston Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina. The next significant temperance drama to debut was titled \"Fifteen Years of a Drunkard\'s Life\", written by Douglas Jerrold in 1841. As the movement began to grow and prosper, these dramas became more popular among the general public. \"The Drunkard\" by W.H. Smith premiered in 1841 in Boston, running for 144 performances before being produced at P.T. Barnum\'s American Museum on lower Broadway. The play was wildly popular and is often credited with the entrance of the temperance narrative into mainstream American theatre. It continued to be a staple of New York\'s theatre scene all the way until 1875. \"The Drunkard\" follows the typical format of a temperance drama: the main character has an alcohol-induced downfall, and he restores his life from disarray once he denounces drinking for good at the play\'s end. Temperance drama continued to grow as a genre of theatre, fostered by the advent of the railroad as a form of transportation. This enabled theatre companies to be much more mobile, traveling from city to city. Temperance drama would even reach as far as the West Coast, as David Belasco\'s adaptation of Émile Zola\'s novel \"Drink\" premiered at the Baldwin Theatre in San Francisco in 1879. The image titledThe Drunkards Progressshown in the top of the article, gives us a representation of the temperance movement. This image depicts the progress of a drunk man, slowly the woman disappears, and the mans night ends in death. This picture shows us that drinking is social but also brings poverty upon people as well as death and loneliness.
Second Wave Temperance: 1872-1893[edit]AsReconstructioncame to a close in the 1870s, most white reformers grew uninterested in racial equality and invested more energy into temperance.[4]This period produced various temperance organizations including the prohibitionistWoman\'s Christian Temperance Union(WCTU, f. 1874) and the voluntarist Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America (CTAU, f. 1872). Prohibitionist temperance grew popular in the South as it embraced the \"Southern\" values of racial hierarchy, gender roles, and honor.[5]The national movement enlisted more religious support throughout the country, especially from evangelicals.
Temperance education[edit]In 1873, the WCTU established aDepartment of Scientific Temperance Instructionin Schools and Colleges, withMary Huntas National Superintendent. The WCTU was an influential organization with a membership of 120,000 by 1879.[citation needed]Frances Willardled the group under the motto \"Do Everything\" to protect women and children. Some of the changes the WCTU sought included property and custody rights for women, women\'s suffrage, raising the age of consensual sex, peace arbitration, women\'s education, and advocacy for working rights of women.[6]
Postcard depicting Temperance HallBecause of the correlation between drinking and domestic violence—many drunken husbands abused family members—the temperance movement existed alongside variouswomen\'s rightsand other movements, including theProgressivemovement, and often the same activists were involved in multiple movements. Many notable voices of the time, ranging fromLucy Webb HayestoSusan B. Anthony, were active in temperance. InCanada,Nellie McClungwas a longstanding advocate of temperance. As with most social movements, there was a gamut of activists running from violent (Carrie Nation) to mild (Neal S. Dow).
TheAmerican Temperance Universityopened in 1893 in the planned town ofHarriman, Tennessee, which was developed as a community with no alcoholic beverages permitted. In its second year of operation the institution enrolled 345 students from 20 states. However, it closed in 1908.
Temperance fountains[edit]Main article:Temperance fountainMuddied and ill-tasting drinking water encouraged many Americans to drink alcohol for health purposes, so temperance groups constructed public drinking fountains throughout the United States following the Civil War. The National Woman\'s Christian Temperance Union (NWCTU)\'s organizing convention of 1874 strongly encouraged its attendees to erect the fountains in the places that they had come from. The NWCTU advocated public temperance fountains as a means to discourage males from entering drinking establishment for refreshment.[7]
Cast-stone statues ofHebewere marketed for use in temperance fountains. InTompkins Square(New York City) the James Fountain (1881), is a Temperance fountain with the figure of Charity who empties her jug of water, aided by a child; it was donated by Daniel Willis James and sculpted byAdolf Donndorf. In Washington DC \"the\"Temperance Fountainwas donated to the city in 1882 by Temperance crusaderHenry D. Cogswell. This fountain was one of a series of fountains he designed and commissioned in a belief that easy access to cool drinking water would keep people from consuming alcohol. Under its stone canopy the words \"Faith,\" \"Hope,\" \"Charity,\" and \"Temperance\" are chiseled. Atop this canopy is a life-sizedheron, and the centerpiece is a pair of entwined heraldic scalydolphins. Originally, visitors were supposed to freely drink ice water flowing from the dolphins\' snouts with abrasscup attached to the fountain and the overflow was collected by atroughforhorses, but the city tired of having to replenish the ice in a reservoir underneath the base and disconnected the supply pipes.
Simon Benson, an Oregon lumberman, was a tee-totaler who wanted to discourage his workers from drinking alcohol in the middle of the day. In 1912, Benson gave theCity of PortlandUSD$10,000 for the installation of twenty bronze drinking fountains. As of May, 2012, these fountains, known as\"Benson Bubblers\", continue to be used as functional public drinking devices in downtown Portland; two Portland \"Benson Bubbler\" locations are Eastbank Esplanade and the corner of \"3rd and Burnside\".[8][9]
Third Wave Temperance: 1893-1933[edit]The last wave of temperance in the United States saw the rise of the Anti-Saloon League, which successfully pushed for National Prohibition from its enactment in 1920 to its repeal in 1933. This heavily prohibitionist wave attracted a diverse coalition: doctors, pastors, and eugenicists; Klansmen and liberal internationalists; business leaders and labor radicals; conservative evangelicals and liberal theologians.[10]
Anti-Saloon League[edit]Rev. Howard Hyde Russell founded theAnti-Saloon League(ASL) in 1893. Under the leadership ofWayne Wheelerthe ASL stressed political results and perfected the art ofpressure politics. It did not demand that politicians change their drinking habits, only their votes in the legislature. Other organizations like theProhibition Partyand the WCTU soon lost influence to the better-organized and more focused ASL.
The ASL\'s motto was \"the Church in action against the saloon,\" and it mobilized its religious coalition to pass state (and local) legislation (establishingdry statesanddry counties).
By the late nineteenth century, most Protestant denominations and the American wing of the Catholic Church supported the movement to legally restrict the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. These groups believed that alcohol consumption led tocorruption,prostitution,spousal abuseand other criminal activities. Brewers and distillers resisted the reform movement, which threatened to ruin their livelihood, and also feared women having the vote, because they expected women to vote for prohibition.[6]
Energized by the anti-German sentiment during World War I, the ASL achieved its main goal of passage on December 18, 1917—the18th Amendment. Upon ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures by January 16, 1919, established National Prohibition. (the Amendment came into effect on January 16, 1920) Prohibition banned \"the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States and its possessions.\" However, Prohibition did not outlaw the purchase or consumption of alcohol products.
A temperance fountain inTompkins Square Park, New York CityTemperance organizations[edit]Temperance organizations of the United States played an essential role in bringing about ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution establishing nationalprohibitionofalcohol. They included:
- theAmerican Issue Publishing House
- theAmerican Temperance Society
- theAnti-Saloon League
- theBritish Women\'s Temperance Association
- theCatholic Total Abstinence Union of America
- theCommittee of Fifty (1893)
- theDaughters of Temperance[11]
- theDepartment of Scientific Temperance Instruction
- theFlying Squadron of America
- theIndependent Order of Good Templars
- theKnights of Father Matthew
- theLincoln-Lee Legion
- theMethodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals
- theNational Temperance Society and Publishing House
- theProhibition Party
- theScientific Temperance Federation
- theSons of Temperance
- theTemplars of Honor and Temperance
- theAbstinence Society
- theWoman\'s Christian Temperance Union(active)
- theNational Temperance Council
- theWorld League Against Alcoholism(a pro-prohibition organization)
There was often considerable overlap in membership in these organizations, as well as in leadership. Prominent temperance leaders in the United States includedBishop James Cannon, Jr.,James Black,Ernest Cherrington,Neal S. Dow,Mary Hunt,William E. Johnson(known as \"Pussyfoot\" Johnson),Carrie Nation,Howard Hyde Russell,John St. John,Billy Sunday,Father Mathew,Andrew VolsteadandWayne Wheeler.
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