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Richard Hamm examines prohibitionists' struggle for reform from the late nineteenth century to their great victory in securing passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. Because the prohibition movement was a quintessential reform effort, Hamm uses it as a case study to advance a general theory about the interaction between reformers and the state during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Most scholarship on prohibition focuses on its social context, but Hamm explores how the regulation of commerce and the federal tax structure molded the drys' crusade. Federalism gave the drys a restricted setting--individual states--as a proving ground for their proposals. But federal policies precipitated a series of crises in the states that the drys strove to overcome. According to Hamm, interaction with the federal government system helped to reshape prohibitionists' legal culture--that is, their ideas about what law was and how it could be used. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...The chief efforts of the Alliance have been of a moral character. Yet, in his report, in 1868, the Secretary, Rev. William M. Thayer, said: "Whenever the Prohibitory Liquor Law has been assailed at the polls, and in the Legislature, the Alliance has defended it. It has repudiated the licensing of the sale of intoxicating liquors as impracticable and unholy." The following resolve was passed unanimously, October 14th, 1868: "That a committee of three be appointed by the Alliance to cooperate with the Executive Committee of the Prohibitory Committee, or otherwise, in doing such work as may be necessary to secure the nomination and election of such candidates for the Legislature as shall be-in favor of the repeal of the present license law, and the reenactment of a prohibitory law." After the repeal of the Prohibitory Law, in 1868, some of the members of the Alliance favored the enactment of a law allowing the sale of cider, beer, &c. Rev. Dr. Miner, at a meeting of the committee, February 24th, 1869, offered this resolution, which was adopted, viz.: "That should temperance men assent to the exemption of cider or other small drinks from the operation of the Prohibitory Law, it will prove the most disastrous misfortune that has yet befallen our cause." Time has verified this declaration. At a meeting of the Committee, April 28th, 1869, there seems to have been a difference of opinion between the President, Mr. Spooner, and some of the members respecting the sale of alcoholic liquors, and a committee was chosen to confer with him. The report of the interview not being satisfactory, it was voted, May 5th, that the President of the Alliance be requested to resign his office. At a meeting, May 12th, Mr. Spooner...
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Nine essays explore aspects of alcohol consumption and regulation, and public attitudes about it, in Canada from the 1830s to the 1980s. Among them are how prohibitionist campaigns unified ethnic communities, the association of women alcoholics with prostitution and child neglect, institutions for alcoholics, the Temperance Act in the 1880s and 1890s, and the economics of rum running. Canadian card order number: C93-090466-4. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR