Temperance Societies
Your Job
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In groups, you and your peers will be
responsible for creating your own temperance
society based on a societal behavior that you
feel needs to stop or decrease.
In order for your temperance society to be
complete, you must create a name,
slogan/motto, a pledge, mission statement,
and a badge for members of your society to
wear.
Examples of Names of Temperance
Societies
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The American Temperance Society
The Anti-Saloon League of America
The Committee of Fifty (1893)
The Flying Squadron of America
The Independent Order of Good Templars
The Knights of Father Matthew
The Lincoln-Lee Legion
The Prohibition Party
The Scientific Temperance Federation
The Sons of Temperance
The Templars of Honor and Temperance
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (active)
The World League Against Alcoholism (a pro-prohibition organization)
Example of Motto/Slogan
Examples of Temperance Pledges
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Youth Temperance Council - "I promise, by the help of God,
never to use alcoholic beverages, other narcotics, or tobacco,
and to encourage everyone else to do the same, fulfilling the
command, 'keep thyself pure'.“
Total Abstinence Society- “I promise to abstain from all
intoxicating drinks except used medicinally and by order of a
medical man and to discountenance the cause and practice of
intemperance.”
Lincoln-Lee Legion- “Whereas, the use of intoxicating
liquors as a beverage is productive of pauperism, degradation
and crime; and believing it our duty to discourage that which
produces more evil than good, we therefore pledge ourselves
to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage“.
Mission Statement
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A mission statement is a brief summary,
approximately one or two sentences, that
sums up the background, purposes and
benefits of your society.
Use your mission statement to explain why
you believe in your cause and what you are
trying to accomplish.
Example: Starbucks- “To inspire and nurture
the human spirit- one person, one cup, and
one neighborhood at a time.”
Temperance Badges
Sons of Temperance
Note*: The Home Defender button also became "the badge of our army." The concept of
women as "Home Defenders" was central to the prohibition movement. Women were seen as
protecting the home from the ravages of alcohol and other vices. Carry herself donated one of
these buttons to the Kansas Historical Society in 1901.