Prohibition Cartoons

<p>The passage of Prohibition in 1919 was no slam dunk. To some it seemed like a rural, Protestant campaign against urban, Catholic immigrants. The cartoons here are included to represent the tortuous history of good intentions gone bad that in a little less than thirteen years disgraced municipal law enforcement, enriched shrewd gangsters like John Torrio and Al Capone, and established organized crime in this country.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:296/1*5Xu9AFHt7hPWoZ5mZO4NOw.gif" style="height:390px; width:296px" /></p> <p>Alcohol was perceived by many God fearing Americans to be the root of all evil: a scourge ruining American workers and their families and threatening the American way of life.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@andrew_ward/prohibition-cartoons-efdf2b5c3bf3"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>