Why did people think temperance is a problem that needed to be fixed?

The Temperance Movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Temperance advocates encouraged their fellow Americans to reduce the amount of alcohol that they consumed.

Explanation:

But by the 1820s the movement started to advocate for the total abstinence of all alcohol—that is to urge people to stop drinking completely. Temperance was also important because it connected to many other reform movements that sprang up in the country between the American Revolution and the Civil War.

to oppose fdr’s new deal

explanation:

the american liberty league. the american liberty league was a nonpartisan organization formed in 1934 in opposition to the new deal. the organization's stated goal was “to defend the constitution and defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by that constitution.”