The WCTU felt that immigrants were more prone to alcoholism.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that " linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity.

Thus, the WCTU was very interested in a number of social reform issues, including labor, prostitution, public health, sanitation, and international peace.

The WCTU traditionally uses the bow rather than the more modern " remembrance " loop.

Rather than arguing that women deserved the vote because their feminine morality would then properly influence legislation ( as the WCTU did ), she argued that they deserved suffrage as a ' natural right '.

Hutching argues that after 1890 women were increasingly well organized through the National Council of Women, the Women's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ), the Women's International League, and the Housewives Union, and others.

In 1873 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ( WCTU ) established a Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction in Schools and Colleges, with Mary Hunt as National Superintendent.

The WCTU was an influential organization with a membership of 120, 000 by 1879.

Some of the changes the WCTU sought included property and custody rights for women, women's suffrage, raising the age of consensual sex, peace arbitration, women's education, and advocacy for working rights of women.

Other organizations like the Prohibition Party and the WCTU lost influence to the League.

* Sheehan, Nancy M. The WCTU and education: Canadian-American illustrations.

Two years after its founding, the American WCTU sponsored an international conference at which the International Women's Christian Temperance Union was formed.

The purpose of the WCTU was to create a " sober and pure world " by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.

The WCTU also agitated against tobacco.

The United States WCTU formed a " Department for the Overthrow of the Tobacco Habit " as early as 1885 and frequently published anti-tobacco articles in the 1880s.

As the movement grew in numbers and strength, members of the WCTU also focused on suffrage.

The WCTU was instrumental in organizing woman's suffrage leaders and in helping more women become involved in American politics.

At a time when suffragists still alienated most American women, who viewed them as radicals, the WCTU offered a more traditionally feminine and appropriate organization for women to join.

Although the WCTU had chapters throughout North America with hundreds of thousands of members, the " Christian " in its title was largely limited to those with an evangelical Protestant conviction and the importance of their role has been noted.

In 1901 the WCTU said that golf should not be allowed on Sundays.

The WCTU was also concerned about trying to remove poverty.

Through journal articles, the WCTU tried to prove that abstinence would help people move up in life.

In the United States during the temperance movement, the WCTU was divided along ideological lines.

This wing of the WCTU therefore was more concerned with how morality played a role during the temperance movement.

WCTU display booth at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, 1945.

Johnny Marr was exhausted and on the verge of alcoholism, and took a break from the band in June 1987, which he felt was negatively perceived by the other Smiths.

The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as wealth perceived as excessive, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.

Along with James II's perceived despotism, his religion was the main cause of the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and the previous linked religious and succession problems solved by the joint monarchy of William and Mary.

He was already poorly disposed towards oil booms as they were the cause of the constant traveling in his early years but this was aggravated by what he perceived to be the effect oil booms had on towns.

While a democratic nation espousing civil liberties may claim a sense of higher moral ground than other regimes, an act of terrorism within such a state may cause a dilemma: whether to maintain its civil liberties and thus risk being perceived as ineffective in dealing with the problem ; or alternatively to restrict its civil liberties and thus risk delegitimizing its claim of supporting civil liberties.

Anaximenes proposed Air on account of its perceived attractive and repulsive qualities that cause the arche to condense or dissociate into different forms.

Many hair products contain chemicals which can cause build-up, resulting in dull hair or a change in perceived texture.

Inference can also be classified into 3 types: Purvavat ( inferring an unperceived effect from a perceived cause ), Sheshavat ( inferring an unperceived cause from a perceived effect ) and Samanyatodrishta ( when inference is not based on causation but on uniformity of co-existence ).

As Bermuda's Blacks ( whether perceived as a diverse, multi-racial group, or as homogenously Black African ) have been in the majority for more than a century, but are still comparatively less well-off than White Bermudians, this fear may presumably also be the cause for the opposition to census reform in Bermuda.

The disadvantages of tracks are lower top speed, much greater mechanical complexity, and the damage that their all-steel versions cause to what passes beneath them: they are perceived / misconceived to severely damage hard terrain like asphalt pavement, but in actuality, often have significantly lower ground pressures than equivalent or lighter wheeled vehicles, but often cause damage to less firm terrains such as lawns, gravel roads, and farm fields, as the sharp edges of the track easily routs the turf.

The perceived consumption of caffeine has been reported to cause similar effects even when decaffeinated coffee is consumed, although a 2003 study found only limited support for this.

Given a situation in which water is already sitting in a tea kettle on top of a gas burner, then someone lighting the gas under the kettle may be perceived as the " cause " of the water's boiling.

" The cause of his discontent was the perceived dualistic nature of a human and a wolf within Harry.

Turning a chance to get a system like this down, because BC-STV was perceived by some feminists to be not as good as some other proportional electoral system led some to believe Carr's perception of how to advance the feminist cause had caused her to lose sight of what the Green Party exists to do.

Apparent shyness, as perceived by others, may simply be the manifestation of reservation or introversion, character traits which cause an individual to voluntarily avoid excessive social contact or be terse in communication, but are not motivated or accompanied by discomfort, apprehension, or lack of confidence.

In certain parts of Eastern Asia, particularly in Chinese culture, Japanese culture and Vietnamese culture, a sneeze without an obvious cause was generally perceived as a sign that someone was talking about the sneezer at that very moment.

It has also been suggested, controversially, that Kang Youwei actually did a great deal of harm to the cause by his perceived arrogance in the eyes of the conservatives.

Therefore, it is perceived that low level of serotonin in the synaptic cleft in these specific areas in the brain could cause premature ejaculation.

Groynes, however, may cause a shoreline to be perceived as unnatural.

Also, occasionalists generally hold that the physical cannot cause the physical either, for no necessary connection can be perceived between physical causes and effects.

Tiger was appointed CBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, but he returned his insignia as a protest for what he perceived as a lack of support by Great Britain to the Biafran cause.

In 1863, but for a passing interest in the AAS, Chapman retired from public life and for the next two decades, until her death in 1885, she “ savored the perceived success of her cause and, equally, her own role in the victory .”