and yeah , i think that 'suzy b' was an anti alcohol campaigner or Prohibitionist looking to rule over men mostly because getting Drunk , Drinking , taverns and Bars are generally domains of men aren't they ?? Careful with letting the women having power over men as they will go Apezhit Gentlemen . ---
Susan B. Anthony House :: Temperance Worker --- yep , what a FREEDOM Fighter 'suzy b' was .
My understanding is that the breweries were all setting up their own bars and selling their grog cheap, so they were everywhere and men were going straight there after work and spending the family paycheck which mom and kids needed for groceries. Or that was the argument. That and all the skid row diseases and the domestic violence, etc. that go along with very drunk people.
Prohibition was a terrible awful no good idea, I agree.
But Susan B. Anthony's major life work was getting the vote for women.
And this post and yours above belong in the Anthony thread, not here. Where I'll be glad to discuss it more with you.