Law and Order Society
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Formation6 September 1881
Founded atPhiladelphia, United States
Purpose
- Enforcement of liquor laws
- Sabbath enforcement
- Temperance
- Fighting "white-slavery"
HeadquartersPhiladelphia
| Formation | 6 September 1881 |
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| Founded at | Philadelphia, United States |
| Purpose |
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| Headquarters | Philadelphia |
Secretary | David Clarence Gibboney |
The Law and Order Society was a temperance and Sabbath observance organization founded in 1881 in Philadelphia in the United States. It campaigned for the enforcement of the liquor laws in that city, the proper observance of the Sabbath, and against "white slavery" (prostitution), but it did not aim to reform prostitutes. It claimed in 1917 to have reduced the number of saloons and similar establishments in Philadelphia from 6,000 to 1,910.
