the temperance movement was basically wives against their spouses drinking to extreme, visiting women of the night afterwards and going home to beating wives and other loved ones bcause of alchohol addiction...
In the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, he places the virtue of "temperance" the first and foremost issue to be valued and practiced. He places huge importance on this virtue, which means "self- restraint" in oneself, especially husbands in their treatment of their wives and children. He believes that all moral virtues are controllable and could be maintained through the practice of temperance by an individual. His list of important virtues focuses on the most difficult issues that a man may find hard to actually act on, but which is important and helpful for him too.
