Missing some details on Carrie A Nation and context of alcohol consumption. Her father and husbands were violent alcoholics by today's standards. Women and children were property of the men, and if a divorce were sought, the children still belonged to him, so it was more common for wives to be killed than divorced. It was common for a man to spend all the food money at the saloon, and children of Kansas were starving, and there was zero recourse or support. Alcohol production wasn't regulated, and methanol "wood alcohol" contamination was causing blindness and death throughout communities. Prohibition doesn't work - current example marijuana consumption levels in Kansas. Carrie's activism was violent and radical - but so was the common beating deaths of women and children by drunk men. (Domestic violence wasn't a crime until the 1970's). This was her only way to regulate the violence was to regulate the alcohol. Carrie and I are directly related, and the family cycles continue. My exhusband just died this July from alcohol. He was 46.
Missing some details on Carrie A Nation and context of alcohol consumption. Her father and husbands were violent alcoholics by today's standards. Women and children were property of the men, and if a divorce were sought, the children still belonged to him, so it was more common for wives to be killed than divorced. It was common for a man to spend all the food money at the saloon, and children of Kansas were starving, and there was zero recourse or support. Alcohol production wasn't regulated, and methanol "wood alcohol" contamination was causing blindness and death throughout communities. Prohibition doesn't work - current example marijuana consumption levels in Kansas. Carrie's activism was violent and radical - but so was the common beating deaths of women and children by drunk men. (Domestic violence wasn't a crime until the 1970's). This was her only way to regulate the violence was to regulate the alcohol. Carrie and I are directly related, and the family cycles continue. My exhusband just died this July from alcohol. He was 46.