""Poor Drunkards Child" Temperance sheet music." American History.
This is the cover of sheet music written during the temperance movement in 1871. The authors, Moses Owen, and C. K. Hawes, were part of the temperance movement, and believed in the limitation of alcohol consumption. The Title of the song is "Poor Drunkards' Child". By putting messages of temperance into entertaining media, people like Owen and Hawes hoped to make temperance more appealing. This document teaches us that there were all sorts of ways that people tried to limit alcohol consumption. This image describes the Temperance Movement as a crusade. "Crusade" is usually used to describe a religious battle, and the authors likely felt very strongly about temperance, and followed the movement religiously.
