Editing Temperance movement (section)

=== Other causes ===
Prohibition agendas also became popular among factory owners, who strove for more efficiency during a period of increased industrialization.<ref name="History.com" /> For this reason, industrial leaders such as [[Henry Ford]] and [[S.S. Kresge]] supported Prohibition.<ref name="Hour Detroit" /> The cause of the sober factory worker was related to the cause of women temperance leaders: concerned mothers protested against the enslavement of factory workers, as well as the temptation which saloons offered to these workers.<ref name="snodgrass" />{{rp|602}} Efficiency was also an important argument for the government because it wanted its soldiers to be sober.<ref name="edman"/>{{rp|35}}

At the end of the 19th century, temperance movement opponents started to criticize the slave trade in Africa. This criticism came during the last period of rapid colonial expansion. Slavery and the alcohol trade in colonies were seen as two closely related problems, and they were frequently called "the twin oppressors of the people". Again, this subject tied in with the ideas of civilization and effectiveness: temperance advocates raised the issue that the "natives" could not be properly "civilized" and put to work, if they were provided with the vice of alcohol.<ref name="edman" />{{rp|35–36}}