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Secretary of War Elihu Root holds up a lantern to illuminate a scene in an “Anti-Canteen Saloon” where soldiers have gone to drink and socialize in the absence of a canteen on the army base. It is over-run with drunkenness and violence. Caption: What the W.C.T.U. has effected by abolishing the army canteen.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-05-29
Puck, the eponymous mascot of the magazine, looks at both sides of an issue. On the left, “The result of abolishing the canteen” shows soldiers drunk on whiskey, in a stupor, and engaged in a barroom brawl. On the right, “The canteen as it is” shows soldiers sitting around a table, eating and drinking beer. There was a public debate about the morality and practicality of government-managed drinking establishments on military bases.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-06-20
Newspaper article detailing the proceedings of a meeting of the American Public Health Association. Captain Munson delivered a speech calling for the return of the army canteen and the following general discussion was also favorable. Dr. Greenleaf spoke on sanitary conditions in the Philippines and Ansley Wilcox delivered the official welcome.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-18
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs Moorfield Storey the Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long and Roosevelt would like to abolish the canteens and post-traderships, but Roosevelt would like to have a substitute in place before carrying the plan out.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-30
Louis Livingston Seaman sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of an editorial advocating the restoration of the army canteen. Seaman asks Roosevelt to publish his views about the matter in The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-05
The New Voice is a periodical associated with the Prohibition Party. This issue includes state-by-state reviews of the advance of the temperance agenda, overviews of the issue in other news media, and an editorial directed at President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-31
An Army officer stands in a doorway with a woman labeled “W.C.T.U.”, a clergyman, and a man labeled “Timid Legislator.” They are viewing scenes in a canteen, where soldiers are playing chess and reading, and a dive where soldiers are drunk, arguing, and consorting with prostitutes. Includes a lengthy caption about “W.C.T.U.” efforts to close canteens and the government’s unwillingness to reinstate them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-02-19
An intoxicated African American soldier shoots handguns in a street in front of “The Red Eye Hotel” where another soldier is being thrown out into the street. Caption: Respectfully submitted for the consideration of the W.C.T.U.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-01-16
An old woman labeled “Prohibition,” holding an umbrella labeled “Intolerance,” stands between two sluices that power waterwheels. She is holding a board in the shape of the U.S. Capitol labeled “Politics” in one sluice, blocking the water to the waterwheel on the right, which has paddles labeled “Good fellowship, Recreation, Temperance, Discipline, [and] Health” and runs past “The Closed Canteen.” On the left, water labeled “U.S. Army” flows through the sluice and over a waterwheel with paddles labeled “Drunkenness, Immorality, Disorder, Vice, Disease, [and] Gambling” that runs past “The Blind Tiger” and “The Open Dive,” where a man labeled “Divekeeper” is carrying a bag of “The Grist of Vice.” Puck calls Prohibition’s attention to the problems resulting from closed canteens. Caption: Puck (to Prohibition) — Look around: See whom you benefit while you keep that sluice-gate shut!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-05-10