<P> The Anti-Saloon League was an organization that began in 1893 in Ohio . Reacting to urban growth, it was driven by evangelical Protestantism . Furthermore, the League was strongly supported by the WCTU: in some US states alcoholism had become epidemic and domestic violence rates were high . At the time, Americans drank about three times much as they did in the 2010s . The League campaigned for suffrage and temperance simultaneously, with leader Susan B. Anthony stating that "The only hope of the Anti-Saloon League's success lies in putting the ballot into the hands of women", i.e. it was expected that the first act that women were to take upon themselves after having obtained the right to vote, was to vote for an alcohol ban . Furthermore, temperance activists were able to promote suffrage more effectively than suffrage activists themselves, because of their wide - ranging experience as activists, and because they argued for a concrete aim of safety at home, rather than an abstract aim of justice as the suffragists did . Prohibition agendas also became popular among factory owners, who strove for more efficiency during a period of increased industrialization . For this reason, industrial leaders such as Henry Ford and S.S. Kresge supported Prohibition . The cause of the sober factory worker was related to the cause of women temperance leaders: concerned mothers protested against the enslavement of factory workers, as well as the temptation saloons offered to these workers . Actions of the temperance movement were organizing sobriety lectures and setting up reform clubs for men and children . Some proponents also opened special temperance hotels and lunch wagons, and lobbied for banning liquor during prominent events such as the Centennial Exposition . The Scientific Temperance Instruction Movement published textbooks, promoted alcohol education and held many lectures . Political action included lobbying local legislators and creating petition campaigns . </P> <P> This new trend of temperance movement would be the last but also prove the most effective . Scholars have estimated that by 1900, one in ten Americans had signed a pledge to abstain from drinking, as the temperance movement became the most well - organized lobby group of the time . International conferences were held, in which temperance advocacy methods and policies were discussed . By the turn of the century, temperance societies became commonplace in the US . </P> <P> During this time, there was also a growth in non-religious temperance groups linked to left - wing movements, such as the Scottish Prohibition Party . Founded in 1901, it went on to defeat Winston Churchill in Dundee in the 1922 general election . </P> <P> A favorite goal of the British Temperance movement was to sharply reduce heavy drinking by closing as many pubs as possible . Advocates were Protestant nonconformists who played a major role in the Liberal Party . The Liberal Party adopted temperance platforms focused on local option . In 1908, Prime Minister H.H. Asquith--although a heavy drinker himself--took the lead by proposing to close about a third of the 100,000 pubs in England and Wales, with the owners compensated through a new tax on surviving pubs . The brewers controlled the pubs and organized a stiff resistance, supported by the Conservatives, who repeatedly defeated the proposal in the House of Lords . However, the People's Tax of 1910 included a stiff tax on pubs . </P>

How does the temperance movement compare to the other movements of the progressive era