Several decades later the epidemic has passed and a period of relative temperance sets in.
But if the worst fears of the temperance lobby are realised, fewer pills will probably be popped.
Built as a temperance hall in 1873, Dawley Town Hall has been empty since it closed in 2011.
Rather than making a push for temperance, LSU is considering a plan to cash in on the situation.
Dawley Town Hall, in the Shropshire borough of Telford and Wrekin, was built as a temperance hall in 1873.
When Obama discussed drone strikes last week in his counterterrorism address, he said they must be used with more temperance and caution.
To chart his progress toward "moral perfection, " Franklin kept a daily ledger in red ink of 13 virtues, from temperance to humility.
Prudence may be dead, but Temperance is looking healthier by the day.
But it remains an open question whether that temperance will continue.
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The building originally opened as a temperance hall in the 19th Century to encourage the area's mining community to come together, while promoting abstinence from alcohol.
"Questions based upon temperance, religion, morality, in all their multiplied forms, ought not to be the basis of politics, " declared Senator John Sherman of Ohio in 1873.
But perhaps, as a commentator in Barrons suggests, the Internet had been rife with rumour that the meeting was a gathering of representatives of the World Temperance Organisation.
Without fiscal temperance, as well as education reform and a better regulatory environment, there will neither be the opportunity for social mobility nor resources for a social safety net, public or private.
As in many other towns across the country, a temperance hall was set up in the 19th Century to encourage the area's mining community to come together, while also promoting abstinence from alcohol.
Mr Norquist is the pugnacious founder of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a mighty pressure group that deems taxes no less of an evil than alcohol was in the eyes of the 19th-century temperance movements.
Born into poverty in Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, he was acutely aware of the damaging affects of alcohol on the working classes, setting up the temperance movement which he promoted for the rest of his life.
It depicts Liberal statesman David Lloyd George stealing from the working man, the trader and the house-holder and giving the money to the temperance fanatic, the socialist and the foreigner, with the caption 'Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a -----?
To be sure, the law is not always observed: yet the intake of alcohol by Americans between the ages of 18 and 21 is much lower than it is by Britons, and that habit of abstinence stays with many Americans all their lives reinforced for some by a strong religious culture of temperance.
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