United Kingdom Alliance

[1] This occurred in a context of support for the type of law passed by General Neal Dow in Maine, United States, in 1851, prohibiting the sale of intoxicants.

At a private meeting at Card's house on 20 July 1852, the National League for the Total and Legal Suppression of Intemperance was formed.

[4] In 1874, Sir Wilfrid Lawson commented: The object of the Alliance shall be to call forth and direct an enlightened public opinion to procure the total and immediate suppression of the traffic in all intoxicating liquors or beverages.

[5]Since they considered themselves a legitimate political party they pledged to badger Parliament to outlaw liquor in the United Kingdom.

In 1854 they published a weekly newspaper, The Alliance News, a journal of moral and social reform that sold for one penny.

Their chief public spokesman was Sir Wilfrid Lawson, MP (1829–1906) who was president of the organisation from 1879 until his death in 1906.