Temperance and Prohibition/Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition

The site is a series of short essays on the temperance movement and national prohibition, such as "Why Prohibition?" "The Brewing Industry and Prohibition," "The Women's Crusade of 1873-74," "The Anti-Saloon League," "The Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918," and "Medicinal Alcohol." Rep. Richmond P Hobson's 1914 speech in favor of the prohibition amendment, for instance, asserts that liquor "reverses the life principles of the universe"; the speech also breaks down the effects of drink into racial categories, stressing the different responses to drink of "the red man," "the black man," and "the white man."