Temperance Poster, c. 1830s
This poster was made by people involved in the Temperance Movement. They were trying to tell "drunkards" what they were doing wrong and how they were affecting the people around them in a negative way. The source is true to what the people believed during that time: that drunks were a hazard to society and needed to be stopped. The Temperance Movement was started by women who faced domestic violence as an effect of alcohol on their husbands. They wanted people to abstain from alcohol because they were a danger to their families. That is why this poster says "You are a thief and a robber"-drunkards are robbing their families of "necessary means of support". The author uses strong descriptions and compares drunks to other criminals as a way to try to get them to realize what they were doing wrong. I think this poster is very effective in the way it displays the wrongs in alcohol abuse.
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