Prohibition Propaganda: The Extremists Creations By: Sarah

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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 s

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