Prohibition...A Waste?
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Prohibition is now a waif of a thought in most’s minds but at one
time was a factor on everyone’s mind. It began a movement that later some
believed was a mistake. I cannot tell my opinion, but will simply show you
the history of it. Prohibition has many stories, including, but not
limited to ....
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.... out across the nation in 1873.
Thousands of women marched from church meetings to saloons, where with
prayer and song they demanded—with transitory results—that saloonkeepers
give up their businesses. By 1900, millions of men and women were beginning
to share this hostility toward the saloon and to regard it as the most
dangerous social institution then threatening the family. The Anti-Saloon
League of America (ASL), organized in Ohio, effectively marshaled such
people into political actio ....
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