Kansas Saloon Smashers Temperance League Satirical

Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours, satirical photograph, upgraded and enhanced, of teetotaller women: a still from c. 1895 silent film. Kansas Saloon Smashers is a 1901 comedy short film produced and distributed by Edison's Black Maria studio that was directed by Edwin S. Porter: a film still mocking teetotalers, produced in Thomas Edison’s studio, c. 1895. Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours is a satire of American activist Carrie Nation. The film portrays Nation and her followers entering and destroying a saloon. After the bartender retaliates by spraying Nation with water, policemen order them out; the identities of the actors are not known. Like many in the temperance movement, Carrie Nation considered drunkenness a cause of many of society's problems. Carrie Nation began her temperance work, which escalated from simple protests to serenading saloon patrons with hymns accompanied by a hand organ, to greeting bartenders with pointed remarks such as, "Good morning, destroyer of men's souls." Dissatisfied with the results of her efforts, Nation began to pray to God for direction. On June 5, 1900, she felt she received her answer in the form of a heavenly vision. Responding to the revelation, Nation gathered several rocks – "smashers", she called them – and proceeded to Dobson's Saloon on June 7. Announcing "Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard's fate", she began to destroy the saloon's stock with her cache of rocks. Lips That Touch Liquor Must Never Touch Mine — the slogan of the Anti-Saloon League of the US temperance movement. A political statement with a very amusing image of ten women supporters of the Anti-Saloon League: the leading organization lobbying for prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century. Great humor and a great gift for alcohol drinkers of all ages!