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The challenge for the railroad brotherhoods, of course, was to make good on their temperance promises.
The nascent temperance movement, too, is suggested by the rotund whiskey jug placed prominently in the foreground.
In the 1830s, a third movement, the teetotal movement, emerged and radicalized temperance reform in two ways.
Women's temperance rhetoric and activity bolstered brotherhood temperance efforts and to an extent influenced union policy.
Prudence wisely discerns the good, justice rightly does the good, temperance constrainedly loves the good, fortitude bravely keeps you good.
But their campaigns also assisted the temperance movement in its quest to curb intemperance.
The very first package trip was not a search for sun, sea and indiscretion but a quarterly delegate meeting of the local temperance association.
That is the reason why the temperance movement had support not only in the chapels but in the Chartist movement and later trade unions.
The modern form of temperance has a wider target, taking in drugs and tobacco as well as the demon drink.
Similarly, the railroad brotherhoods ' temperance efforts resembled but did not duplicate bourgeois temperance movements.
Before about 1830, temperance sermons, tracts and addresses routinely broached female intemperance.
Like the temperance movement, antiporn activism mistook a symptom of male dominance for the cause.
Nevertheless, splits occurred along class lines, on the issue of temperance, and on account of differences in personality among the leaders.
Cook's beginnings in 1841, as an organizer of temperance excursions on English Midland railroads, may be well known.
Prompted by a temperance movement, voters in 1955 were asked whether the local beer parlor should be thrown out.
His teachings included temperance, being thankful to the Creator, merciful to children and the poor, and the evil of greed and pride.
It was this temperance and self-restraint that led to Mendes being noticed in Hollywood.
Our vows are not of celibacy or self-denial, but of temperance and self-moderation.
By the end of the nineteenth century, as temperance gripped Wales, every distillery but one had closed down.
The temperance advocates got strong support from the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Anglican churches.
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Moreover, I had heard of this raki of theirs, which is so much fire-water, and I didn't take their temperance very seriously.
Economy may be styled the daughter of Prudence, the sister of temperance, and the mother of Liberty.
Do you observe that we were not far wrong in our guess that temperance was a sort of harmony?
Certainly, he said, that is the true account of temperance whether in the State or individual.
Justice and health of mind will be of the company, and temperance will follow after?
Nothing is said of the pre-existence of ideas of justice, temperance, and the like.
The more I thought about that temperance drink of calisaya, the less respect I had for the principles of prohibition.
Reward my temperance with some lawful favour, Though you contemn my person.
And yet I could not help wondering at his natural temperance and self-restraint and manliness.
The very large test of Fletcherism as a temperance expedient hereinbefore referred to was entirely accidental.
We had a temperance meetin' one day, and this hib, as they called him, wer opposed to it.
In her speech there was no excitement or speciousness, but a persuasive sweetness and serenity, learnt from duty and temperance.
There was probably the most astonished temperance man up above Stevens Point the other day that ever was.
The temperance men sent up two detectives from Kincardine, who were low characters, and would swear to anything.
The New English Dictionary viewed from a temperance standpoint would make a delightful study.
Even so the Japanese wrestler, who has got a certainty, is temperance itself towards his victim, who writhes in vain.
There was a temperance lodge and Workers' Union and a chapel and a picture palace.
In their temperance they should provide patience, endurance in well-doing.
In self-examination temperance or abstemiousness plays an important rle.
This from the leader of the temperance movement in Radville?
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