A Short Story
"Men will drink their entire payday in the saloons, leaving wives and children with no currency for food or clothing."
This was exactly what all the advocates of temperance (and later Prohibition) were trying to stamp out. In some cases, they succeeded.
I remember learning about this in school.
Yes. In the U. S., the temperance movement started as a reaction to the consumption of staggering amounts of alcohol. Our experiment with Prohibition did not go well, but it seems to have cut our consumption of booze to more manageable levels.
"Men will drink their entire payday in the saloons, leaving wives and children with no currency for food or clothing."
This was exactly what all the advocates of temperance (and later Prohibition) were trying to stamp out. In some cases, they succeeded.
I remember learning about this in school.
Yes. In the U. S., the temperance movement started as a reaction to the consumption of staggering amounts of alcohol. Our experiment with Prohibition did not go well, but it seems to have cut our consumption of booze to more manageable levels.