Prohibition

January 1st, 2006 @ 1:00 am by Rich | | Comments: none
Filed under: ChurchRodent

The Eighteenth Amendment outlawed alcoholic beverages across the country after January, 1920. This was probably the last successful evangelical crusade for a moral America. William Jennings Bryan wrote that those who labored for prohibition "are helping to create conditions which will bring the highest good to the greatest number, … for it is not injustice to any man to refuse him permission to enrich himself by injuring his fellowmen."

 

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