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LITERARY IMAGES AND USES OF ALCOHOLīecause alcoholism and efforts to combat it have been so pervasive in American culture, the images and passions associated with both intoxication and sobriety Anthony, Stanton, and others argued that women needed the ballot in order to defeat the bottle. Anthony, a foundational member of the women's suffrage movement, began as a temperance worker Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another pivotal early suffragist, wrote the temperance story "Henry Neil and His Mother" (1849–1850). Nonetheless, the women's movement stemmed from the organizational skills that women honed in their temperance work. Whereas temperance advocated the retraction of rights, the suffrage and abolition efforts championed the expansion of rights. With its emphasis on restriction and control of the self, the temperance movement appeared traditional and conservative compared to the liberal and progressive campaigns of suffrage and abolition. Temperance workers' arguments were many: that inebriation enslaved the body and will as perniciously as did the slave trade, that alcoholism caused men to lose their jobs and impoverish their families, that too much drink degraded one's health, and that drunkenness indicated a sinful life. The drive eventually led to the twentieth-century national ban on the liquor trade and helped shape American identity as anti-liquor reformers strove to make self-control and public virtue issues of national concern. The temperance crusade expanded in the early-nineteenth-century United States and swept through the country as a result of the nation's long history of overindulgence in alcohol. But the temperance movement, with its moral suasion techniques and legal ramifications, also helped convince people to put down the bottle. Such a reduction in alcohol consumption certainly owes much to the technological innovation of drinking-water purification (beer and wine offered a more hygienic option than untreated water). citizen drank an astonishing 7 gallons of alcohol per year in comparison, statistics from 1985 suggest Americans drink 2.6 gallons per person annually (Lender and Marin, p. Scholars estimate that in 1830, the average U.S. Founders of early towns often erected the church and tavern first, suggesting townsfolk's equal devotion to the Spirit and spirits. Benjamin Franklin, for example, writes in his Autobiography (1771) that his coworkers relied on an alehouse boy to bring them beer several times a day because they believed that strong beer led to a strong body. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries alcohol was served at nearly every occasion and workers regularly drank beer or wine while on the job. Since the founding of the thirteen colonies, the robust consumption and at times equally vigorous regulation of alcohol have coexisted in uneasy tension.