What the Temperance Century has made Certain

Wilbur Fisk Crafts' book “What the Temperance Century has made Certain” argues that a century of temperance work has produced more than moral persuasion—it has yielded concrete, observable results in society. Crafts presents temperance as a practical force that reshaped everyday life by reducing the harms associated with alcohol and by strengthening habits of self-control, responsibility, and community reform. Drawing on the movement's history and its accumulated experience, he aims to show that the temperance cause is not built on vague hope but on measurable change: fewer destructive outcomes, stronger family stability, and a more disciplined public culture. What the Temperance Century has made Certain is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885.