wheeler became the asl's general counsel. i like to call in the karl rove of his day.he's the guy who invented pressure politics, so how the asl is going to squeeze these different politicians to force them to vote dry as opposed to voting wet. so, they met here in this building in 1895 and began to craft a national strategy of how the asl was going to turn the country dry. one of the things that they decided they were going to do was to go after the states first. and by the states they got the states to allow local option laws, was there was a local auction in place the church allies of the asl, the evangelical protestant could use their political influence and force the county to go dry. and hence, you see that especially across the deep south tilt to this day in parts of the midw dry counties because of the strong emphasis or influence they should say on the southern baptist convention. once enough states had voted to put some kind of dried law in place, that would then force the congressman from that state to go dry, even if they were wiped in their personal life c

wheeler became the asl counsel, and he was, i call him the karl rove of his day. he is the guy who invented pressure politics. the way, how the tranny was going to squeeze these politicians to force them to vote dry instead of voting wet. they met here in this building in 1895, and began how the asl was going to turn the country dry. one of the things they decided going to do was to go after the state's first. by the states, they got the states to allow local option laws. once there was a local option law in place, that meant that the church allies of asl, and these were evangelical protestant, could use their political influence and force the county to go to dry. and you see that as much across the deep south to this day. and parts of the midwest you still see a lot of dry cannings. that's because of the strong emphasis, strong influence i should say, of the southern baptist convention. >> once enough states had voted to put some kind of dry law in place, that would then force the congressman from that state to vote dry. so by 1950, a majority of the states had s

that led to the asl to propose the 18th amendment.some of the interesting things here about the temperance movement itself it was really an evangelical, white protestant movement. this was a faith-based initiative to get the country to dry up. this is a part of time in american history known as the progressive era. this idea that society could be reformed. and actually a lot of good stuff came out of this era. women got to vote we got our food laws, we got income tax, well, if that's a good thing or not we have to decide on her own. but we also got prohibition. that backfired harangued as they. against the temperance movement itself. but this was nearly a three decade long period where we thought we could have a socially purist society. this is for the benefit of all americans here to clean things up. at the same time because it was so protestant lead, it really violet and a lot of rights of as the minority's. remember, starting with the irish in the 1840s, there was this great wave of catholics who came in this country and half of

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