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The Committee of Fifty met in New York, New York in October of 1829. They advocated redistribution of property between the poor and rich; as well as abolition of banking, monopoly, and debt imprisonment. 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
They also nominated a slate of Working Men's Party candidates for the upcoming elections. The Working Mens Party was the first labor union in the United States, located in Philadelphia. ...
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. A Temperance Movement (see definition of temperance) attempts to greatly reduce the amount of alcohol consumed or even prohibit its production and consumption entirely. ...
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). Temperance may refer to: Temperance (virtue) Temperance movement Temperance (Tarot card) Temperance (band) See also Astrud Gilberto, for the album Temperance This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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. The Womans Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian womens organization in the US and worldwide. ...
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). Mary Hunt (1830 - 1906) became one of the most powerful women in the United States temperance movement promoting Prohibition of alcohol. ...
References
- Billings, John S., et al. Physiological Aspects of the Liquor Problem: Investigations Made by and Under the Direction of John 0. Atwater, John S. Billings and Others. Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903.
- Billings, John S., et al. The Liquor Problem: Summary of Investigations Conducted by the Committee of Fifty, 1893-1903. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905.
- Hunt, Mary H. Reply to the Physiological Subcommittee of the Committee of Fifty. Boston: Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1904. See also 58th Congress, 2d Session. Senate. Document No. 171
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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.
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