"Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which a majority of honest citizens didn’t seem to want," Eliot Ness, one of the Fed’s most famous Prohibition enforcers, said of the act.
"By the late 1800s, support for prohibition was strong, particularly among progressives who favored social reform and a greater nationwide morality," writes the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History. "Organized criminal gangs illegally supply America’s demand for liquor, making millions and influencing the country’s largest financial institutions," the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives states in its history of the amendments. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Moonshine confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau photographed at the Treasury Department between 1921 and 1932. Man standing next to still, looking at contents of glass. Nearly 600,000 Americans were arrested by Prohibition agents in the 1920s.
And Joe Kennedy knew it was coming and had shiploads of booze sitting offshore to sell under the table or at clubs. The source of the Kennedy fortune.
December 21,2022, banning flavored tobacco in California, yet allowing heroin addicts access to free syringes…priceless!
Have conservatives stopped trying to ban things?
'We're from the government, and this is for your own good.'