Hilde convinced me into going to the temperance meeting. She wanted to hear for herself about the temperance platform. Her father had been a heavy drinker and it caused much suffering in her family, even after his death.
“Perhaps if alcoholic beverages were taken away, even for a little while, then people will take the money they were using to acquire drink and use it for their families.”
“It’s an idealistic goal,” I said. “But it will never work. As soon as you tell someone he can’t have something, he wants it even more.”
As Hilde and I walked the busy blocks to the temperance meeting we came across an office where men in their calf-length overcoats gathered to look at the posters hanging in the window. The sign above the door read “Headquarters National Association Opposed to Woman Su
