The claim concerns documented currents and coalitions, not every temperance supporter. Cowdery points to Marni Davis’s specialist history as a verification lead.
The passage qualifies benevolent accounts of temperance by identifying sectarian and nativist elements in organizations and public rhetoric.
Cowdery connects militant temperance politics to nativist Protestantism, the Anti-Saloon League, the Ku Klux Klan, wartime anti-German pressure, and rhetoric portraying Catholic and Jewish immigrants as threats to Protestant political and cultural control.
PDF sheet 155
PDF sheet 153
Chapter 10 — The Wild, Godless West / Who Is Destroying America?
September 29 fresh review: all 283 supplied sheets read and surveyed visually, 13 enlarged details. This paraphrase and locator were reconciled. Verified means source fidelity, not independent confirmation of every historical claim.
Evidence
Cowdery connects militant temperance politics to nativist Protestantism, the Anti-Saloon League, the Ku Klux Klan, wartime anti-German pressure, and rhetoric portraying Catholic and Jewish immigrants as threats to Protestant political and cultural control.
Location and context
PDF sheet 153 through PDF sheet 155; Chapter 10 — The Wild, Godless West / Who Is Destroying America?.
The passage qualifies benevolent accounts of temperance by identifying sectarian and nativist elements in organizations and public rhetoric.
Assessment
The claim concerns documented currents and coalitions, not every temperance supporter. Cowdery points to Marni Davis’s specialist history as a verification lead.
September 29 verification
September 29 fresh review: all 283 supplied sheets read and surveyed visually, 13 enlarged details. This paraphrase and locator were reconciled. Verified means source fidelity, not independent confirmation of every historical claim.