Poetry

spin before its time. No less disingenuously, the name of the influential Anti-Saloon League camouflaged prohibitionist objectives far broader than an attack on the local den of iniquity, a technique that may ring a bell with those who believe that MADD is now straying beyond its original, praiseworthy, agenda.

Above all, what is striking is how, then as now, the zealots of abstention were unable to resist the temptation of compulsion. Burns is inclined to attribute the best of intentions to the “temperance” campaigners. He’s wrong. The fact is that neither persuasion, nor education, nor even psychotic Carry Nation’s hatchet was enough to satisfy the urge to control their fellow citizens that played as much a part in the psychology

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spin before its time. No less disingenuously, the name of the influential Anti-Saloon League camouflaged prohibitionist objectives far broader than an attack on the local den of iniquity, a technique that may ring a bell with those who believe that MADD is now straying beyond its original, praiseworthy, agenda.

Above all, what is striking is how, then as now, the zealots of abstention were unable to resist the temptation of compulsion. Burns is inclined to attribute the best of intentions to the “temperance” campaigners. He’s wrong. The fact is that neither persuasion, nor education, nor even psychotic Carry Nation’s hatchet was enough to satisfy the urge to control their fellow citizens that played as much a part in the psychology