#temperance movement

[thingsfromthedirt]

Band Of Hope - The Sabbath Breakers transfer printed plate (ca. 1850)

[stone-cold-groove]

Vintage poster entitled, Effects of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics on the Human System - 1906.

[timaeuslover001]

Surprise but glad to see if somebody defending history especially from a mainstream magazine 👏👏

This is why I can’t stress enough why people should NOT take entertainment portrayal of history at face value…ever!

In how sick of a person do you have to be to start mocking these trailblazers of women who found it to be their duty to go ahead and advocate for women’s safety and protection? And to even keep their households intact and save their families lives! 😡😠

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"All suffragists agreed that war was a women’s issue. But they disagreed on why and on what roles feminists should play in the conflict. The war reaffirmed the importance of international organizations and transnational ideals for Canadian suffragists, even if pro- and anti-war feminists adopted divergent positions in this global struggle. Before the First World War, many feminists in Canadian and international organizations staked out optimistic claims of women’s ability to steer nations toward disarmament, negotiation, and peace. Using maternalist arguments, suffragists maintained that, had women been enfranchised, war might have been avoided. As life-givers, they could have prevented the tragic loss of lives on the battlefield; their reform proclivities would manoeuvre humanity away from aggressive masculinity and territoriality in favour of governing for human welfare. Ironically, some of these suffragists were proud defenders of the British Empire, itself constructed on the basis of armies, aggression, territoriality, and the subordination of Indigenous populations. ... Many suffragists put aside political organizing and reform work, save for temperance. Despite evidence that soldiers at the front preferred to make their own choices about alcohol (though they were often not consulted), the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and its suffragist allies argued for sober soldiers, dry canteens in military camps, and an end to a rum ration in the trenches. Suffragists also aided the federal government’s registration of available manpower and pushed for the substitution of women for male workers in munitions work, as well as the provision of female welfare supervisors to provide “moral aid” to these factory women. Moral aid, however, was also a new form of surveillance of working-class women’s sexuality, and calls for women to take up munitions work showed the distance between working-class and middle-class women. Writers in the middle-class reform magazine Women’s Century were eager to substitute women for men in munitions work, but this was not their work. The majority of the munitions girls, as Sime’s story indicates, were working-class individuals who were willing to put up with difficult conditions in their search for better wages. Handling dangerous substances for ten or twelve hours a day was not patriotism, except for those who did not have to do it to earn a living.

Not all suffrage agitation ceased. Following some provincial victories, a National Equal Franchise Union was cobbled together after a WCTU conference in 1916, and it petitioned for the federal vote for women. The Canadian Suffrage Association, including long-time stalwarts Dr. Margaret Gordon and Flora MacDonald Denison, continued to advocate for suffrage and also called for the international arbitration of disputes between nations to prevent wars. This stance was anathema to more assertively imperialist and pro-war women who criticized the CSA’s misplaced priorities, if not downright disloyalty."

- Joan Sangster, One Hundred Years of Struggle: The History of Women and the Vote in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019), 184-185, 186-187.

[victusinveritas]

All those Mexicanized dishes and pepper sauces mean I am fucked.

[teepeecider]

An 1852 illustration depicting the ‘wet’ arm of the temperance movement in USA. Here the man is tapping a keg of cider suggesting there is no danger from drunkenness from drinking cider. Maine Law Museum. #cider #hardcider #Temperance #USA

[sock-to-the-third]

If Fresh were around during the Temperance movement… shit would’ve been wild. 🚬

[bad-moodboard]

From George Cruikshank, The Glass and the New Crystal Palace (1853)