Prohibition In The 1920's
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The year is 1923, and the production, consumption, and sale of alcohol in the U.S. has been illegal ever since the prohibition movement successfully persuaded Congress to ratify the eighteenth amendment,three years ago. Mr. John Krause, an antiprohibitionist, is presenting this speech to the U.S. H ....
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.... so not to succumb to the values of the religious sects behind the prohibition movement.
Since Congress ratified the eighteenth amendment as least one billion dollars a year is lost to the National Government in excise taxes. Part of this money, once intended for the government to spend on schools and roads, now falls into the hands of bootleggers, who are illegally smuggling alcohol into the U.S. The remainding funds are given in forms of bribes to local officials so they can look the ot ....
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