And the Wine Flows

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And the Wine Flows

• From the Bathtub to the Soul
• Prohibition

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Progressivism Dies a Slow, Sad Death

• The Progressive movement has been driven into
  your thick, lonely skulls for the better part of
  a month and a half
• Weve finally reached the end (of Progressivism,
  not your thick, lonely skulls)
• Pro-Hi-Bi-Shanthe last, dare I say, spasm, of
  the progressive reform movement was loudly and
  angrily supported by crusading churches and many
  women
• Women were not aLLOWed into the bars, at least
  based on the ethics and morals of the time
• unless were one of those womena lady of ill
  repute, an employee of the oldest profession
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Progressivism Dies a Slow, Sad Death

• The 18th Amendment eliminated alcohol from the
  public sector
• The sale or manufacture of intoxicating liquors
  is now forbidden in the United States
  ofAmer-ee-ka
• This was especially popular in the South and West
• Southern whites were eager to keep stimulants out
  of the hands of blacks, so they dont burst out
  of their place
• Western prohibitionists felt alcohol was an
  attack on all the vices associated with the
  saloon
• Public drunkenness
• Corruption
• Crime
• And, of course, pros-ti-too-shan
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Those Who Like Alcohol Want to Drink Alcohol

• Alcohol, however, was part of the nations social
  conscience
• Many wet foreign-born people viewed drinking in
  beer gardens and corner taverns as their
  preferred form of socializing
• That, combined with the very real realization
  that many native American-born citizens also
  liked to drinkand the understanding the federal
  government was doing little to enforce the
  law,meant prohibition was on a short leash
• To begin, the government was trying to make
  something a crime overnight out of something
  millions of people have never regarded as a crime
• Lawmakers could not legislate awaya thirst
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Those Who Like Alcohol Want to Drink Alcohol

• One of the strategies of striking down the law
  was to simply ignore it on a large scale
• Hypocritical legislators passed dry lawswhile
  living a life of alcohol-induced leisure at home
• Frustrated soldiers returned home to a law they
  did not want to support, a law they didnt go
  over there for
• Workers whined about the loss of their cheap
  beer, while pointing out the rich could acquire
  all the alcohol they wanted
• People began making their own liquor, often in
  their own bathtubs, for both profitand pleasure
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Speak No Evil

• Old-time men only saloons were replaced by
  thousands of speakeasies
• The thirsty spoke softly before the barred door
  was opened
• Hard liquor was imbibed by both men AND women
• Because it was hard to transport and conceal
  bottles, the beverages had a high alcoholic
  content in most cases
• And Canadian imported alcohol was a boon to
  drunkards and the socializing folk
• And nowthe rest of the story

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See No Evil

• There were positives to come of Prohibition
  though
• Bank savings increased for the average American,
  as people no longer spent money on whiskey and
  wine
• Absenteeism in industry decreasedpeople no
  longer have to sleep off a bad night at the
  saloon
• Less alcohol was consumed (though the alcohol was
  stronger)
• However, the increase of gangsters throughout
  America, especially in Chicago, was the real
  downfall of the era