Who: Father Theobald Mathew
Issue that he focused on: Temperance, or the virtue to help society to moderate the attraction to substances like alcohol, and excessive use.
Why was this issue so important to him?: Father Theobald Mathew was a strong believer in the theory that alcohol is the number one drug in The United States, and it does affect us in some way. He was one of the first to truly realize that alcohol is a depressant, and it affects the function of the body, mind and emotion. This being said he discovered that one in three deaths on the road, and one in four domestic abuse cases, involve the use and or abuse of alcohol. Even children as young as twelve were becoming drinkers. In his home country