They signed a pledge to abstain from alcohol. In the U.S., membership pledges numbered over 3,000,000. She came to believe that only when women were allowed to vote, could they control to the sale of alcohol. My mother, Jennie Dalrymple, was greatly interested in her work. My purse is heavier.
All excess is illness, but drunkenness is the worst sort.
It spoils health, dismounts the mind, ruins a man so he becomes quarrelsome and dangerous. He's devoid of reason, which is what distinguishes a man from a beast. Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are wrecked homes, children without decent clothing or shoes, families without food. All the armies on earth have not destroyed so many of the human race as drunkenness. In short, he is a tub of swill, a spirit of unrest, a thing below a beast, and a monster of a man.