“Woman’s Holy War” This political cartoon styles the temperance campaign as “Woman’s Holy War” and shows a woman knight in armor (demurely seated sidesaddle on her charger), wielding a battle-ax and trampling on barrels of liquor. The image of temperance women as ax-wielding Amazons proved a popular satiric image. The cartoon appeared in 1874, the year the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union formed.

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