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Sixty six members refused to go over to the new organization and took distributive shares of the National Temperance Life Societys' assets. [17] Pioneer Total Abstinence Association (active) Royal Templars of Temperance - Founded in Buffalo, New York February 16, 1870 by Cyrus K. Porter. Porer was a Freemason, Oddfellow and a member of the Sons ...
Temperance was seen as a feminine, religious and moral duty, and when it was achieved, it was also seen as a way to gain familial and domestic security as well as salvation in a religious sense. [4]: 47 Indeed, scholar Ruth Bordin stated that the temperance movement was "the foremost example of American feminism". [107]
To the Non-Partisan Temperance Women of the Nation: A little over nine months ago, the reasons for an uncompromised, unequivocal and untrammeled National organization of temperance women were given to the public at large, followed soon after by a rallying call, not only to the members of Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance unions and ...
The World's WCTU (WWCTU) is one of the most prominent examples of internationalism, evidenced by the circulation of the Union Signal around the globe; the International Conventions that were held with the purpose of focusing "world attention on the temperance and women's questions, [44] and the appointment of "round-the-world missionaries ...
Temperance organizations in the United States (4 C, 40 P) W. Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Temperance organizations"
IOGT membership certificate, Michigan, 1868 [2] Small assembly building of the IOGT lodge in Vågå, Norway. Built 1908. The IOGT originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia.
Examples of these temperance movements were the National Temperance League in Japan, the New Zealand alliance for the abolition of liquor traffic, the Irish Temperance League, the Temperance Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, etc. [1] Poster, educational materials and speakers were provided to help promote the cause worldwide. [9]
The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.. In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...