See also the English Quaker temperance reformer Catherine Impey.  I 
contributed an entry for her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

At 09:41 AM 6/6/2006, you wrote:
>This didn't get through the first time.
>Dave
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Dave Trippel
>To: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Alcohol and Drugs History Society
>Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:41 AM
>Subject: Re: liquor as white privilege
>
>
>Ida B. Wells had some disagreements with Francis E. Willard that 
>evoke some views of those times. Here's the link and the paragraph 
>with Willard's quotes.
>
><http://www.learntoquestion.com/seevak/groups/2002/sites/wells/strugglescourageoverseas.htm>http://www.learntoquestion.com/seevak/groups/2002/sites/wells/strugglescourageoverseas.htm
>
>"Ida never hid from the public her opinions of Willard, whom she 
>stated maintained her high upstanding in society by catering to 
>wealthy whites who were prejudiced against blacks. Ida cited an 
>interview Willard had done in which she claimed, "The colored race 
>multiplies like the locusts of Egypt. The grog-shop is its source of 
>power. Better whiskey and more of it' has been the rallying cry of 
>great dark-faced mobs in the Southern localities where local option 
>was snowed under by the colored vote." Willard had even gone so far 
>as to suggest that blacks were out of control criminals, saying, 
>"The safety of women, of children, of the home is menaced in a 
>thousand localities at this moment, so men dare not go beyond the 
>sight of their own roof-tree." Brazenly, Ida had Willard's interview 
>published in the Society's journal, the Fraternity. When the article 
>came out Willard and her sponsor, Lady Isabel Somerset, were enraged 
>and lashed back out at Ida. As a result, the rest of Ida's trip was 
>hampered by the battle that raged between the two parties. Still, 
>the fact that Ida was even able to hold her own against Willard was 
>in fact remarkable, since Willard had been highly esteemed by 
>England, whereas Ida was seen by some critical newspapers as an 
>annoying firebrand involved in matters way over her head."
>
>Nonetheless, even today, I think the US Capitol building still 
>displays a full figure statue of Willard.
>
>Dave
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Barr" <<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]>
>To: <<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 3:35 AM
>Subject: Re: liquor as white privilege
>
> > The fear that black men, stimulated by alcohol, would attack white
> > women, certainly contributed to the introduction of prohibition in the
> > southern states of the U.S. in the early 20th century. Congressman
> > Hobson from Alabama, speaking in the House of Representatives in 1914
> > on his resolution for a prohibition amendment to the Consitition,
> > claimed that "Liquor will actually make a brute out of the Negro,
> > causing him to commit unnatural crimes. The effect is the same on the
> > white man, though the white man being further evolved it takes a longer
> > time to reduce him to the same level." See Hanes Walton Jr and James E.
> > Taylor, "Blacks and the Southern Prohibition Movement," Phlyon vol. 32
> > (1971) pp. 247-59.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Campbell 
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> > Sent: Sun, 28 May 2006 09:48:08 -0700
> > Subject: liquor as white privilege
> >
> >   Hello,
> > A colleague of mine has asked about secondary literature on liquor as a
> > white
> > privilege, particularly in the Canadian context. My work certainly has
> > assumed
> > that privilege, but it does not discuss how access to alcohol can be
> > part of the
> > process of creating "whiteness."
> > Regards,
> > Robert Campbell
> >
> >
> > Robert A. Campbell, Ph.D.
> > Department of History
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