"Total Abstinence"
Speech
By: Bessie Laythe Scovell
Date: 1900
Source: Scovell, Bessie Laythe. "President's Address," Minutes of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the W.C.T.U. of the State of Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn.: W.J. Woodbury, 1900.
About the Author: Bessie Laythe Scovell grew up in Chat-field, Minnesota, and earned a bachelor's degree from the State University of Minnesota. She was a schoolteacher for three years and assistant editor of the Duluth Evening Journal. She joined the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1895 and served as its president from 1897 to 1909.
Introduction
In the late nineteenth century, concern grew among American clergy and laity that alcohol use was getting out of control. Families were being neglected, violence toward women and children was becoming more common, and men could not function at their jobs. Churches...
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