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PROHIBITION:

DIDN’T TURN OUT

THE WAY IT WAS PLANNED

Prohibition means the forbidding by law to manufacturing, transport, or sell alcohol. Prohibition didn’t turn out the way it was planned, and not only didn’t it solve problems, but it created problems unseen and uncounted on.. Oh, the signing of the law changed the habits of many, but it didn’t stop the making or manufacturing of alcohol altogether. January 16, 1920 at the stroke of midnight, was when the progression of signing that bill started everything into action. The Eighteenth Amendment. Importing and exporting business’ ceased and their business’ failed. Truckers and salesmen were out of work, which of course affected their families. Some lost their homes because they couldn’t pay the mortgage. The nation had a new law they couldn’t enforce. There wasn’t enough FBI, policemen, or sheriffs to locate all the stills, keep an eye out for people delivering the homemade “moonshine” nor any of the liquor stolen from manufacturers warehouses. Bar owners were selling it “on the sly”.

There have been a lot of books written, movies made, and cartoons drawn about the prohibition. Of course, the “revenuers” were the brunt end of a lot of jokes especially in the Ozarks and Appalachias.

A lot of people were killed over moonshine whether they were the ones with the still, those who delivered it, or those supplying large amounts in any manner they could. And as long as there is a will, there is a way to get around all laws….until you get caught. People thought they were being quite ingenious hiding their flask in books, in their boot (where the term bootlegger came from), including all the silly ideas they came up with.

People put their lives on the line to make money illegally. It always comes down to money.

Remember all the organized gangs and racketeers like Al Capone and Bugs Moran. They created havoc wherever they went. And of course, a lot died trying to take over someone else’s territory. And a lot of good people died trying to stop them.

America can’t really say whether prohibition was a good idea or not because there wasn’t enough people to oversee enforcement of the law.

When the smokers said the people of the United States had a right to smoke if they wanted to, they didn’t believe enough laws would be passed to ever stop the smokers. I’m sad to say, the privilege has just about been taken away from Americans. And if everyone is so concerned that smoking kills…just what do they think alcohol does. Alcohol kills not just the person drinking, but the ones that drive drunk, beat up on their wives and children, and the ones that use a gun while drunk to kill others. If you added all of those up I wonder what the toll would be. And how many divorces caused havoc to families due to alcoholism and how many of the alcoholics children grew up with mental problems or became alcoholics themselves.

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