Prohibition the attempt to regulate manufacture and selling of alcohol… Well THAT DIDN’T WORK OUT DID IT? Prohibition may have banned manufacturing and selling alcohol but the problem was that it was very hard to control and regulate. People still made alcohol themselves but sometimes they didn’t make it right and it let to disease and death. And I believe that we may have learned something from the past. And its that you cannot completely ban something people use everyday.
Colonial America saw little wrong in alcoholic drinks. Workers were often paid in rum and spirituous liquors were considered a necessary dietary supplement for those engaged in manual labor. For those who consumed alcohol were normally lower than for those who abstained from drink.
In cases of temperance the idea was that liquor was harmful rather than healthful. Support came and a women’s crusade, until the early twentieth century America saw little good in alcoholic drinks. (Hell will be forever for rent)
It fights under cover of darkness and assassinates the characters that in cannot damn, and it lies about you. It attacks defenseless and womanhood and childhood. The saloon is a coward. It is a thief; it is not an ordinary court offender that steals your money but it robs you of everything. It has no faith in God and it has no religion. It would close every church in the land. It would hang its beer signs on the abandoned altars. It would close every public school and it would despise heaven. (The booze Sermon, Source 7)
This was the beginning of prohibition. Prohibition is here. Before the United states stretch the Sahara sands with no oasis in sight. Another step we are told has been taken toward the ideal existence for which the human heart yearns. Prohibition is a fac. As we ponder it our imagination travels back through the crowded events of a century and a half, and we see George Washington and alexander Hamilton sitting before the open fireplace. (Source 9)
This did not stop people from making their own liquor. Large quantities of homemade liquor are also brewed but it has proved to be poisonous in many cases, and the practice is reported to be on the decrease. According to opinions given by the Association against the prohibition the fact that the consumption of intoxicating liquor is illegal has in itself been sufficient to lead many
