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They also nominated a slate of Working Men's Party candidates for the upcoming elections. Another Committee of Fifty was the Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem. It was formed in 1893 by scholars to investigate problems associated with the use and abuse of alcoholic beverages. It attempted to use contemporary social scientific methods to study the subject and to avoid the moralism of the Temperance Movement . The Committee of Fifty concluded that occasional and regular moderate drinking did not cause health problems, that drinking did not inevitably lead to drunkenness as Temperance activists contended, and that alcohol education should be based on a recognition that "intoxication is not the wine's fault, but the man's" (Billings, 1905, pp. 30, 35,41). The committee was especially critical of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union ’s promotion of compulsory temperance education, which the WCTU called Scientific Temperance Instruction . After reviewing the results of three studies of Scientific Temperance Instruction practice and outcomes, the committee concluded that "under the name of' Scientific Temperance Instruction' there has been grafted upon the public school system of nearly all our States an educational scheme relating to alcohol which is neither scientific, nor temperate, nor instructive" (Billings, 1903, p. 44). The Women's christian Temperance Union and its Superintendent of Scientific Temperance Instruction, Mary Hunt , strongly objected to the committee's conclusions about its programs and activities (Hunt, 1904). References
SOURCE Based on materials in National Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S. , which contains complete references and additional information on the Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor Problem. SEE ALSO |
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