and to see that families were not left destitute. The issue was that the husbands made the money and controlled the money, and some of them drank the money away, leaving families without enough to eat or house themselves. Also, temperance workers observed that habitual drunkenness too often resulted in the application of the drunk husband's fists on a wife's or children's faces, in an era when women had no choice but to take it and therefore were powerless to protect their children.

They might have been misguided, but the temperance movement's motives were good. It was not a matter of forcing one's will on everyone, it was a matter of trying to solve a desperate situation that faced many women and children.

So no, Republicans, whose motives are purely selfish, are not like Carrie Nation.

Led by Cry me a river Boehner and Cruzin' for a Bruisin'

Teabaggers don't want it improved. They want war.

We all know where that Rabbit Hole goes.