Protect the home from the saloon, or the saloon will destroy the home.
The ballots of freemen must defend the homes of freemen.
Use your ballot as a weapon to defend your home, just as the liquor men use their ballot to defend the saloon.
The liquor traffic must be suppressed, or it will suppress the home.
Your ballot is the constitutional defense of wife, and children, and home. Dare you use it to offend them, and defend the saloon?
The saloon is in politics. Why not put your home there? It has a better right to be there.
The liquor traffic is in the crisis of a death struggle for supremacy over the American home.
GOD is silently, but surely, sifting the American people into two classes—home defenders and saloon defenders; these two forces now confront each other in your county.
EVERY wretched home is made out of a possible happy one.
THE HOME OR THE SALOON — WHICH?
Anti-Saloon League, Detroit.
The Anti-Saloon League, now known the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United States.
Founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, it was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing support from Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists, Disciples and Congregationalists. It concentrated on legislation, and cared about how legislators had voted, not whether they drank or not. Established initially as an Ohio state society, its influence spread rapidly. In 1895, it became a national organization and quickly rose to become the most powerful prohibition lobby in America, overshadowing the older Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Prohibition Party. Its triumph was nationwide prohibition locked into the Constitution with passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919. It was decisively defeated when Prohibition was repealed in 1933.
Snapshot of History 📸 — Anti-Saloon League, Detroit
The Home vs. The Saloon