Prohibition Propaganda: The Extremists Creations

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Prohibition Propaganda: The Extremists' Creations

By: Sarah

�� Why did people create such influential propaganda?�� In order to fully understand the extremists� actions, one should first take a look at where these extremists were coming from.� The Prohibitionists wanted to protect the values of the American family that they believed were being put into jeopardy by alcohol abuse.� It seemed to them that such abuse could be stopped with the restrictive law.� One journalist of the Christian Courier wrote that the typical "wet" was upset about Prohibition because he was:
�� deprived of his liberties... the privilege of getting drunk... the
�� honored privilege of beating and otherwise mistreating his wife
�� and children and shooting his neighbor... the privilege of stealing
�� his neighbor�s pocketbook, watch, automobile, and wife... the
�� privilege of killing... blowing open safes and robbing banks... such
�� glorious liberties. (McCarty, 24).
�� The general view of the Prohibitionists is summarized well in this excerpt from a Baptist editorial about the Eighteenth Ammendment:� "There has never been a law passed in the United States that brought more prosperity or did more good than this provision of the Constitution, except, perhaps, the abolition of human slavery."(McCarty, 24).
�� On the other hand, Anti-Prohibitionists wanted to protect the freedom of American citizens to drink alcohol, and to purchase it from honest merchants rather than criminals.� They felt that their freedom should not be restricted by "a law that truly patriotic, freedom-loving Americans (could) never be made to obey"(Prohibition Primer, 40).� It was written about Prohibitionists that:"As soon as there were enough of them, these Prohibitionists went into politics.� They tried, that is, to take over our government."(Primer, 20).�� The general consensus of the extreme Anti-Prohibitionists was that "Prohibition (was) doing more harm to America than anything else in all her history."(Primer, 7).
�� The extreme Prohibitionists created many posters that associated alcohol with the devil, and plastered them up everywhere for all to see.� They used images of starving children with slogans about daddy drinking all the money away, and character�s such as "King Alcohol" leading groups of drunken people to invoke disgust and pity in the general public.� Worst of all, they forced their views upon the impressionable minds of wide-eyed children.
�� This verse was written for a Sunday school lesson to "raise a striking spector of personal anguish and ...

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