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Charity
Petite Corona, 4 x 46
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One of the virtues on the Tree of Temperance. The disposition the movement claimed for itself toward those it sought to convert. |
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Virtue
Short Robusto, 4½ x 52
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The trunk of the lithograph. The moral high ground a reform movement always assumes. |
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Peace
Petite Gordo, 4½ x 60
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What the temperance movement promised would follow prohibition. The 18th Amendment delivered organized crime instead. |
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Faith
Short Perfecto, 5 x 50
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The religious foundation of 19th-century temperance, named on the tree’s branches alongside the virtues it underwrote. |
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Brotherly Kindness
Robusto Extra, 5 x 56
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A virtue Fillmore printed on the tree. The fraternal feeling among the converted, rarely extended to those they were converting. |
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Fidelity
Gran Toro, 6 x 54
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Steadfastness, a branch of the temperance tree. The movement’s century-long persistence before the amendment finally passed. |