Frontier temperance colonies policed drinking even beyond their own borders

Evidence

A clause in the charter of the colony prohibits the introduction, sale, or consumption of intoxicating liquor, and I hear that the men of Greeley carry their crusade against drink even beyond their limits, and have lately sacked three houses open for the sale of drink near their frontier, pouring the whisky upon the ground, so that people don’t now like to run the risk of bringing liquor near Greeley, and the temperance influence is spreading over a very large area. As the men have no bar-rooms to sit in, I observed that Greeley was asleep at an hour when other places were beginning their revelries. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 49

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Ties to the reader’s own article ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ via moral-panic self-policing; more directly a frontier example of communal enforcement of a moral rule extending past legal limits, echoing cross-cultural moral regulation piece.
• XREF: connects to: Promoting tea helped control social problems related to alcohol. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1408; Temperance shifted from urban-left alliance to small-town-right alliance across a century — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1867

Broader Connections

• Promoting tea helped control social problems related to alcohol. #expands (0.80) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1408
• Temperance shifted from urban-left alliance to small-town-right alliance across a century #qualifies (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1867