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This 4 page paper discusses the issues on both sides of the prohibition controversy. It uses opinions of the time, not modern day. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the contemporary arguments that were given for and against prohibiting the sale and use of liquor. Discussion Hindsight is 20-20, and we can see now that trying to regulate personal
behavior with regard to a wide-spread and generally innocuous habit such as having an occasional drink was doomed to failure. But we are going to look at the issue through
the eyes of people who were living at the time the Amendment was passed. Prohibition had a great deal of support in rural America, which saw it as a way
to clean up "the nations crime- and brother-infested cities" (Gilgoff, 2005, p. 50). In the late 19th century, "waves of eastern and southern Europeans" had arrived in America, bringing with
them their habit of drinking as part of everyday life, so "the existing temperance movement climbed on the back of the anti-immigrant movement" (Gilgoff, 2005, p. 50). Here the connection
is clearly that Americans felt drinking was a dirty habit exacerbated by equally dirty "foreigners" who were threatening the nations health. Its equally clear that they felt prohibition would get
rid of the excessive use of alcohol thus lowering the crime rate and making cities safer. Its interesting to note that this thinking was current in the country, not in
the cities themselves. Evangelist Billy Sunday preached a sermon about the evils of alcohol in 1920. Among other things, he said that any man, presumably even the most responsible,
"can stand up at the bar and fill his hide so full of red liquor that he is transformed for the time being into an irresponsible, dangerous, evil-smelling brute" (Sunday,
2003). Once drunk, the man will go home to his wife "who has to endure with what fortitude she can, his blows and curses" (Sunday, 2003). His children are robbed
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