Some other primary sources - (opposing prohibition at the religious, state, and/or national level) Protestant Jesuitism by Calvin Colton, 1836 - anti prohibition in religion (when Lyman Beecher and colleagues were institutionalizing teetotalism and New England had recently lost state sponsored religion. The word temperance was becoming perverted to mean "total abstinence." Colton had just switched from being a Presbyterian minister to an Episcopal minister.) A Review of the Late Temperance Movements in Massachusetts by Leonard Withington, 1840 - anti prohibition in religion (just before the secular Washingtonians burst on the scene) Ramrod Broken by "A New England Journalist" 1859 - "the Bible, History, and Common Sense in Favor of the Use of Good Spirituous Liquor; Showing the Advantage of a License System in Preference to Prohibition, and "Moral" in Preference to "Legal Suasion." (subtitle to book) Errors of Prohibition by John A. Andrew, 1867 (Governor of Massachusetts five straight terms) - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx? sid=6ecb26d8fcf61d972792b7e62287d86c&c=moa&idno=AEU2714.0001.001&view=to c Morality of Prohibitory Liquor Laws by W B Weeden, 1875 (Unitarian speaker) - "... to turn humane temperance impulse away from its abnormal action in law and in the state, and give it natural play in the ethical improvement of the individual man and society." (preface) Temperance (1907 - ?), a monthly journal from the Episcopal "Church Temperance Society" started 1881 (earlier in England) - pro 'high license' over prohibition with lots of social programs on substitutes for the saloon. On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:42 PM, John, Galliher wrote: > Dear Colleagues; > > I'm searching around for ideas and citations on the issue of organized > opposition to the U.S. Prohibition of alcohol. Joe Gusfield could > think of > nothing off the top of his head and Harry Levine recommended that I > contact > this list serve. > > Since the largely protestant WCTU pushed hard against the culture > of Jews > and Roman Catholics I'm wondering if they pushed back. > > Thanks in advance. > > John Galliher