Author Notes

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union came to Washington in 1883 and quickly grew — within a year, there were already 629 members in King County alone. The main purpose of the organization was to achieve prohibition by law which the women worked toward by singing hymns and praying in saloons, lobbying for temperance reform, and presenting anti-drinking programs in schools.

This was one of their songs:

I mean…wow. How persuasive do you think that song actually was?

Source: https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/ptec/id/1397