Vintage Decora Ceramics California, Temperance Prohibition Anti-Rum Wall Plaque

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Lot of (2) Vintage Decora Ceramics , Inc., California, Temperance - Prohibition - Anti-Rum - Wall Plaques - Hand Painted
Temperance movement
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The Drunkard's Progress
(1846) by
Nathaniel Currier
warns that moderate drinking leads to total disaster step-by-step
The
temperance movement
is a
social movement
against the consumption of
alcoholic beverages
. Participants in the movement typically criticize
alcohol intoxication
or promote complete abstinence from alcohol (
teetotalism
), and its leaders emphasize alcohol's negative effects on people's health, personalities and family lives. Typically the movement promotes
alcohol education
and it also demands the passage of new
laws against the sale of alcohol
, either regulations on the availability of alcohol, or the complete
prohibition of it
. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the temperance movement became prominent in many countries, particularly in English-speaking and
Scandinavian
ones, and it eventually led to national prohibitions
in Canada
(1918 to 1920), in Norway (spirits only from
1919
to
1926
) and
in the United States
(1920 to 1933), as well as provincial prohibition
in India
(1948 to present). A number of
temperance organizations
exist that promote temperance and teetotalism as a virtue.