You really don't know your history. The Temperance/Anti-Saloon league was made up of "progressives" who we would nowadays call women's libbers. Indeed, it was their massive network that created both the 18th and 19th amendments. Mostly socially upscale wives of wealthy men leading the thing, just as with other socialist movements throughout history.
and proved to cause more ills than it cured.
Yeah, because were losing a LOT MORE THAN 90,000 PEOPLE PER YEAR BACK THEN, WEREN'T We?
Thank God we got rid of it, else the population would have never survived all the dead people caused by prohibition.
You are either naively ignorant, or just outright lying about stuff.
You really don't know your history. The Temperance/Anti-Saloon league was made up of "progressives" who we would nowadays call women's libbers.
Sounds like you're agreeing with me.
and proved to cause more ills than it cured.
Yeah, because were losing a LOT MORE THAN 90,000 PEOPLE PER YEAR BACK THEN, WEREN'T We?
First, you need to adjust for population; second, deaths are not the only ill in the world.