Westerners played an indispensable role in transforming India's caste-based teetotalism into an organized movement: "the
temperance movement in India was organized, patronized, and instructed by English temperance agitators." (30) The first national conference on temperance, held at Madras in 1888, symbolized the birth of an all-india
temperance movement, but it was a British politician, W.
The attempts to market beer as a healthful substitute for distilled spirits were received with extreme skepticism by the
temperance movement. They were particularly worried by Jacobsen's lecture of 1884, feeling that their goal--to create a better and more sober society--was highly threatened.(26) According to the
temperance movement, bottom--fermented beer in the late 19th century seems to have been not only a substitute for, but also a supplement to, distilled spirits.
Taking a break from fronting blues rockers The Union, the local hero will warm up the crowd ahead of The
Temperance Movement's festival-closing set.
As a result of the growth in the
temperance movement, and as organizations grew in size, power, and influence, the quantities of consumed liquor began a steady decline.
This story, and others like it, illustrate how the image of victimized woman came to dominate the
temperance movement's notions of gender by the 1830s.
But the feelings that gave rise to Prohibition remained just beneath the surface of the American psyche, and in the 1970s a new
temperance movement emerged, manifested in the rapid growth of the recovery movement and Alcoholics Anonymous, of private alcoholism treatment a la the Betty Ford Center, and of government efforts to limit alcohol consumption.
The
temperance movement began in the United States in the early 19th century and rapidly spread to Britain and many other countries.
With supports for the likes The
Temperance Movement already under their belt, the new project already has buzz about it.
So, it's no surprise the lead singer of retro rockers The
Temperance Movement is planning to lock Adam Lambert in his dressing room so he can front the legendary band at TRNSMT tonight.
Conversely, I suggest that if others wish to conflate their personal beliefs as a pretext of introducing a moral code onto others, they should stop being so sanctimonious, ally themselves to the
Temperance Movement, and communicate their wishes as good old religious zealots have always done - to the beat of their myopic drum.
But in the 19th Century the
temperance movement, backed by local gentry, was fighting against the drunkenness, gambling and fighting that they believed was caused by the drink, thus many of the beerhouses closed.
Don't look for anything from British blues-rock band The
Temperance Movement in the UK singles charts.