Document: Ernest Cherrington, Why
We Must Engage in a World Conflict Against Alcoholism (19??)
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Why
we must engage in a world conflict against alcoholism
(Westerville, Ohio: American Issue Press, 19-- ) [Pamphlet]
(Online at the Alcohol,
Temperance and Prohibition Digital Collection at Brown University)
Who was Ernest Cherrington? See his Biography
Comments:
By forming in 1919 a World League against Alcoholism,
the prohibitionists wished to safegaurd the United States against illegal
imports of liquor, and also displayed their moral idealism in exporting
prohibition worldwide. This document shows how the plans of prohibitionists
enmeshed with Wilsonian ideals for a new world order, and how the study
of prohibition as a movement can be used to illuminate the American
foreign policy of achieving a world cultural hegemony in the 1920s.
Further information and illustrations of the work of
the League overseas, including an illustration of its international
mailroom and a picture of legendary World League field campaigner, William
E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, in India, can be found here.