Sure, I agree. The temperance / prohibition movement wasn't made up of crazy people who just wanted to ban good clean fun between consenting adults. The problems they saw & wished to fix were very real.

I'm just surprised how seldom this connection gets mentioned. It seems that, having repealed prohibition and decided that it didn't work, we to place it in the "bad things" column, and are very happy to tie it to other bad things (like the mafia). While suffrage of course lives in the "good things" column. But forcing things into black & white doesn't help us see clearly, and the reality of temperance / prohibition was much more complicated.