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David Fahey <[log in to unmask]>
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Alcohol and Temperance History Group <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 Sep 1996 21:57:29 EST
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It is my impression that British temperance reformers were more likely to be
anti-tobacco than North American ones.  This was the case in the Good Templars
whose juvenile auxiliary required an anti-tobacco pledge of members and of
adult advisors.  It was hard to recruit male advisors in the USA and Canada but
not in the British Isles.  Although there were many temperance reformers who
also advocated other controversial reforms (e.g., vegetarianism), many more
temperance reformers had conventional views on such topics.  Indeed it very
hard to generalize about them.  Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, head of
the major British women's temperance organization in the early 1900s, was an
agnostic.  Sir Wilfrid Lawson, head of the major prohibitionist society in
England in the late 19th and early 20th cent., liked to ride to the hounds (a
favorite mount was named Radical).  By the way, both Lady Carlisle and Lawson
were staunch anti-militarists, Home Rulers, etc.  There were also teetotal
professional soldiers and Unionists.
*David Fahey (Miami) [log in to unmask]

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